Nuclear Diner

Let’s look at what might be subtracted from the “nuclear weapon budget” if Representative Ed Markey gets his decrease of $200 billion….

How to Deter Kim Jong-Il – The Great B-83 Controversy

The original article argues that conventional military responses to North Korean provocations would be insufficient because so many of North Korea’s strategic targets are in deep underground bunkers. Kim Jong-Il himself must be put at risk, and he is likely to hide in the deepest and most hardened bunkers. The current earth-penetrating warhead in the US arsenal, the B-61-11, is insufficient to endanger those bunkers. Modifying an existing warhead, the B-83, could provide a weapon that would worry Kim. Lewis and Colby argue that the modifications would not make a “new” weapon and would not threaten strategic stability with Moscow and Beijing, nor would it lower the threshold for nuclear use….

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