Thursday, March 16, 2017

U.S. nuke 'killing power' boosted by factor of 3

Via Iver

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A little-known change in the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal has boosted the killing power of the W-76 warheads used on submarine-based missiles by a factor of three, prompting concern that Russia will “undertake countermeasures that would increase the already dangerously high readiness of Russian nuclear forces,” according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

A report published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie and Theodore A. Postol explains how a “modernization program” has implemented “revolutionary new technologies that will vastly increase the targeting capability of the U.S. ballistic missile arsenal.”

“This increase in capability is astonishing – boosting the overall killing power of existing U.S. ballistic missile forces by a factor of roughly three – and it creates exactly what one would expect to see, if a nuclear-armed state were planning to have the capacity to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike,” they said.

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4 comments:

  1. Another example of piss poor journalism. Improving the fuse mechanism so the warhead detonates in closer proximity to the target does NOT make it more "destructive". It make it more effective. To increase the destructive power of a warhead you must increase the yield...Which I measured in kilotonnage/megatonnage. To double the radius of destruction caused by a W76 warhead which is a nominal 100kilotons you must QUADRUPLE the hike to 400kilotons. The inverse square law is a law of nature. You cannot avoid it. But journalism is a much less stringent discipline.....In fact they have no standards to speak of anymore.

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    1. journalism is a much less stringent discipline.....In fact they have no standards to speak of anymore.

      :) Thanks.

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