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Nuke ‘Super Fuze’ Triples ‘Killing Power’ of U.S. Missiles

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Sunday, March 26, 2017 8:59 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

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Nuke ‘Super Fuze’ Triples ‘Killing Power’ of U.S. Missiles

The U.S. has been “modernizing” its 20th century nuclear arsenal for about a decade.

But while the stated goal has been to increase safety, and extend the life of the existing Cold War thermonuclear stockpile, there has been a targeting improvement which has wrought a “revolutionary impact” on WMD strategy in the 21st century, according to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The “super fuze” that’s now incorporated on U.S. submarines worldwide has essentially tripled the “killing power” of the U.S., achieving insurmountable superiority against other nuclear powers, including Russia, the former Cold War adversary.

“This vast increase in U.S. nuclear target capability, which has largely been concealed from the general public, has serious implication for strategic stability and perceptions of U.S. nuclear strategy and intentions,” writes Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists, in the assessment of the new arsenal.

The new mechanism was developed in the 1990s, and since 2009 has been incorporated on all of the U.S. Navy’s W76-1/Mk4A warheads.

Essentially, the new fuze allows greater accuracy over “hard targets,” such as Russian ICBM silos. The fuze does this since it does not have fixed height-of-burst parameters – and instead adapts upon re-entry to almost ensure its greatest lethal payload is focused on the target below.

Instead of needing three standard submarine-based missiles, then, destruction of a priority target would only take a single missile, writes Kristensen.

The W76 is the most numerous warhead in the U.S. stockpile, and would now have capabilities of destroying virtually any target in the world, he adds. By increasing that “efficiency,” more missiles and warheads are freed up to target cities and other “soft” targets across the world, according to the analysis.

The missile now allows the U.S. to ostensibly be in the position of being able to “win” a first-strike nuclear offensive, according to the assessment.

The American navy’s fleet of submarines in the North Atlantic and elsewhere would allow a successful strike to wipe out Russian nukes, with just a 15-minute warning, due to antiquated ground-based radar warning systems. (The U.S. has a space-based infrared early warning system which gives American leaders approximately 30 minutes of time to decide to push the button). The Russian warheads would thus be destroyed before a counterattack could be initiated, he adds.

The U.S. superiority is not necessarily good news for nuclear strategic stability, Kristensen writes. Russia is already in the process of testing a nuclear-powered underwater unmanned vehicle to threaten U.S. ports and coastal areas. The missile gap is not lost on Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, either. He addressed an uncertain future in ominous tones last summer at a forum in St. Petersburg, saying that the U.S. stance on missiles that was ostensibly directed at Iranian distance capabilities was instead proving to threaten Russia.

“I don’t know how all this is going to end,” Putin reportedly said. “What I do know is that we will need to defend ourselves.”

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Sunday, March 26, 2017 10:37 PM

DREAMTROVE

I agree with Putin. Actually, I agree with him on most things. I remember when he said nuclear weapon were passé. It's so true. What's the point of blowing something up, where the world is getting smaller. There's nothing left to own after the bomb, nothing to trade with, just another bomb headed your way.

I like Kasperov, I met him years ago in Slovenia. Nice guy. I think he needs to come up with a plan of why he's better, and simultaneous explain that progress Putin has made won't be lost under him, a problem we commonly have in America. If I were voting at this point, I'd really have to think about it. The third option, Poklonskaya, is entertaining. I guess she'd have to demonstrate the same thing. This is, I think that Russia is going to have three candidates with 200 IQs, and our best yet is probably our current one, and he thinks the Irish wear four leafed clovers and play bagpipes.

Obviously a better nuke is a pointless toy, but let's hop the Russians make the perfect missile shield.

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Monday, March 27, 2017 7:50 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:

Obviously a better nuke is a pointless toy, but let's hop the Russians make the perfect missile shield.

There is an advantage for the USA and Russia, but the Russians would have to spend some serious money. With Russia’s land-based missiles at greater jeopardy starting in 2009 when the new fuses were ready, Russia would feel a strong urge to build more missile submarines and A-bomb torpedoes.

The advantage for all sides from building more subs is the more Russian submarines, the less need for Russia to launch on warning that the USA launched its missiles. Everybody can wait hours or days before deciding how many sea based missiles to launch from brand new submarines in retaliation for cities destroyed. Maybe everybody will get smart and decommission some of their land based missiles like the USA decommissioned some of their B-52 bombers with nukes.
www.upi.com/Defense-News/2015/09/21/Nuclear-weapons-capability-strippe
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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