US
President Donald Trump has sent his administration’s plan for the
nation’s nuclear program to the country’s defense bodies and will
soon unfetter the arsenal to include controversial miniaturized
nuclear devices.
The
new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a set of White House
recommendations issued every eight years, reportedly includes a plan
to remove constraints on the Department of Energy and modify the
Trident D5 submarine-launched missile to include only part of the
original warhead.
The
purpose of this policy is to nominally deter Russia, which the US has
accused of developing ground-launched cruise missiles that violate
the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. Moscow has
denied the charge, calling it "fake news."
Pentagon
policy along NATO's eastern flank has been informed by this alleged
violation, with the theory being that in the case of war between
Russia and the US, Moscow would quickly deploy tactical nuclear
weapons to even the odds, which would then make the US back down —
or so the Pentagon claims.
Hans
Kristensen, the director of the nuclear information project at the
Federation of American Scientists, slammed this justification,
calling it "ludicrous."
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