2018 Nuclear Posture Review Moving Closer to Earthly Annihilation? |
The preliminary NPR document is available and the final version is scheduled to be released in February. The tone is obvious and in line with the iron triangle’s major ingestion of blood and treasure – follow the money!
Now we want to expand the “first use” of nuclear attack and the trigger finger gets a little itchier. One idea is to develop less potent nuclear bombs that presumably could be used for destruction with “precision” and would be much easier to justify than higher yield bombs. We already have 4000+ nuclear weapons in our arsenal and able to kill everything on earth. Isn’t it time to back off and go in the opposite direction as stipulated in Article VI of the U.N. Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons?
The same old cold war propaganda about Chinese and Russian military capabilities (Status 6 Torpedoes) is invoked to convince us to expand our arsenal, by “ten-fold” according to “commander” boasts.
Modest Proposal: Fewer insults, more diplomacy, make an effort to understand others.