The First B61-13 Gravity Bomb Is Delivered Ahead of Schedule
The First B61-13 Gravity Bomb Is Delivered Ahead of Schedule
How do you think this could impact the balance of power among nuclear-armed states ? Might it trigger a nuclear arms race ?
Does that mean they are enlarging the inventory now? As opposed to dismantling old bombs as they make new ones (modernization while keeping the number constant)? I thought there was a treaty capping the total number but haven't been keeping track.
I don't know but I doubt we are increasing capacity. At one point the arsenals were so high the whole planet could be devastated mulitple times between the various countries. The article talks about extension of the last model and this is just finished as the modernized version. So I think its likely just going to replace as they decommission. They just want to keep up the various deterents. Sub missiles, ground missiles, and air bombs. The air and sub is mainly so the other side relizes even if they wiped out the land retaliation was possible. Not sure if they still do it but they used to have at least one nuclear armed aircraft in the air and sub at sea with enough fuel to get anywhere and I believe several but of course you have ones leaving and coming back so there is overlap.
So it's just a usual Cold War nuclear bomb but with even bigger warhead? So it won't change absolutely nothing.
"Peace through strength" has such an aweful ring to it. From the first recorded historical use forward it has been used by empires using rethoric to whitewash their aggression.
Suckers still don't have an anti-gravity bomb.