A new US nuclear missile is being developed. According to the British guardian January 9th, a former US official claiming to have seen the latest draft of nuclear posture assessment said that the US government plans to relax restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons and develop new nuclear warheads for the US Trident missiles.
Jon Wolf Starr (Jon Wolfsthal) was during the reign of Obama the White House National Security Council senior director of arms control and non-proliferation, he said, the The Pentagon in its latest assessment report said the nuclear posture of the Trident D5 missile (Trident D5 submarine-launched missiles) to make certain transformation, after the transformation of the Trident submarine D5 missile warhead will only carry nuclear warheads are usually part of the move, the purpose is to prevent Russia's use of tactical nuclear warheads in the conflict in Eastern Europe (Tactical warheads).
The new nuclear policy is significantly tougher than the Obama administration's policy of reducing the proportion of nuclear weapons in national defense weapons, the report said. This also comes with the opposition of some arms control advocates, who believe that the construction of smaller and more widely used nuclear weapons will make the possibility of a nuclear war bigger.
The Nuclear Posture Review is expected to be released, after the Trump state of the union at the end of January according to the report on the use of nuclear weapons in the United States to relax the restrictions, the United States can use nuclear weapons in response to non nuclear attacks, if the attack caused massive casualties, or may cause damage to the U.S. critical infrastructure or nuclear command and control center.
Wolf Starr said that the United States will re introduce the sea based nuclear cruise missiles, to deal with Russia's violation of the 1987 inf Treaty (INF) manufacturing new land-based cruise missile. He also said that the earlier version of the draft assessment was more forceful, and the final draft deleted the provisions on developing a new type of hypersonic nuclear weapon and no longer guaranteeing the use of nuclear weapons against non nuclear countries.
Wolf Starr said, "I think that although the final draft assessment has deleted some terrible things, it is not as extreme as before, but the final version is still very bad. He also said that the people who wrote the report told him that the purpose of the report was to deter Russia, Korea and China. The report also made it clear that if Russia and DPRK use nuclear weapons, they would eat their own food.
The report said that the development of the new Trident missile by the US Trident missile may be based on this thinking: once Russia conflicts with the eastern countries of NATO, Russia may preemptive use of tactical nuclear weapons to make up for their relative disadvantage on conventional weapons. The argument is that Russia will force the United States to make concessions with the idea that the United States is reluctant to use a large number of nuclear warheads on its existing weapons.
The United States Arms Control Association executive chairman Daryl said Daryl Kimball the development of new nuclear weapons, the United States is dangerous, cold war thinking. He wrote on the website of arms control association: "the United States has many kinds of nuclear weapons. There is no evidence that new nuclear weapons can enhance the deterrence of the enemy, or force the enemy to make different choices for their armaments."
Use range, Daryl Kimball also warned cannot expand nuclear weapons, he said: "a small part of nuclear weapons to be used in war the result is devastating. The United States does not need to use nuclear weapons as a threat to fight against the new "asymmetric" threat, which will not only increase the risk of using nuclear weapons, but also lead other countries to defend their excessive use of nuclear weapons.