Anonymous ID: 025603 Feb. 5, 2020, 10:20 a.m. No.8036716   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6780 >>6810 >>6873 >>7056 >>7251

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/pentagon-deploys-low-yield-nuclear-weapin-for-first-time

The Pentagon Tuesday said it has deployed a new low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile armed with a nuclear warhead to counter Russia’s arsenal of smaller tactical nuclear weapons.

 

"This supplemental capability strengthens deterrence and provides the United States a prompt, more survivable low-yield strategic weapon," John Rood, the undersecretary of defense for policy, said in a statement.

 

He says the weapon, known as W76-2, lowers the risk of nuclear war.

 

Critics say low-yield nuclear weapons lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons, increasing the risk of nuclear war. And while W76-2’s strength is classified, experts say it likely has around one-third the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

 

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The warhead is the first major addition to the U.S. nuclear arsenal in decides and shows a departure from the Obama administration’s policy of lessening dependence of nukes for deterrence.Details about where and when the weapon was deployed are classified, Rood said.

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2008 photo released by the U.S. Navy, The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming approaches Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. The Pentagon's top policy official tells The Associated Press that the United States for the first time has deployed the newest addition to its nuclear arsenal — a submarine-launched weapon that the Trump administration says will make nuclear war less likely. (Lt. Rebecca Rebarich/U.S. Navy via AP)

 

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2008 photo released by the U.S. Navy, The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming approaches Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. The Pentagon's top policy official tells The Associated Press that the United States for the first time has deployed the newest addition to its nuclear arsenal — a submarine-launched weapon that the Trump administration says will make nuclear war less likely. (Lt. Rebecca Rebarich/U.S. Navy via AP)

 

The Trump administration aims to dissuade Russia from thinking it could win a war in Europe if the country used its own low-yield weapons first, trying to force the U.S. to either surrender or respond with full-scale nuclear war.

 

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash, said "The administration’s decision to deploy the W76-2 warhead remains a misguided and dangerous one," Reuters reported. "The deployment of this warhead does nothing to make Americans safer."

 

Bruce Blair, co-founder of Global Zero, an international group advocating for the elimination of nuclear arms, also opposes W76-2 and testified in front of Congress last year.

 

“We must not delude ourselves into thinking lower-yield nukes are more usable in a conflict,” the former Air Force nuclear weapons officer testified.

 

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“Any use of this sea-based weapon – either first or second – will risk stoking the flames of conflict and escalating to all-out nuclear war," Blair said. "A wiser response to an enemy’s use of one or two low-yield nukes would be to refrain from nuclear escalation while unleashing America’s ferocious and decisive conventional juggernaut.”

 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Anonymous ID: 025603 Feb. 5, 2020, 10:26 a.m. No.8036782   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Blessing nukes Hmm!

Targets of other dimensional kind?

 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-priests-shouldnt-bless-nuclear-weapons-other-weapons-of-mass-destruction-orthodox-church-says>>8036716

The Russian Orthodox Church thinks its priests should discontinue the practice of blessing weapons of mass destruction that inflict death upon thousands of people, according to a proposal published Monday.

 

The church released a draft document outlining its stance on the blessing of Orthodox Christians "for the performance of military duty" and "defense of the Fatherland."

 

Russian priests have longed sprinkled holy water on various weapon systems, including submarines, ballistic missiles and space rockets, among others.

"It is not reflected in the tradition of the Orthodox Church and does not correspond to the content of the Rite of blessing of military weapons, and therefore, the use of this order to “sanctify” any kind of weapon, the use of which could lead to the death of an undetermined number of people, including weapons, should be excluded from pastoral practice indiscriminate action and weapons of mass destruction," the church wrote.

 

The proposal noted the blessing of military vehicles used on land, air and sea is not the “blessing of guns, rockets or bombing devices that the Lord is asking for, but the protection of soldiers."

 

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The proposals will be discussed on June 1 and the public is being asked to weigh in the debate, Reuters reported.

 

The request comes as the church and the Russian military continue to forge close ties. The armed forces are building a sprawling cathedral at a military park outside Moscow.

Anonymous ID: 025603 Feb. 5, 2020, 10:28 a.m. No.8036810   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8036716

>Blessing nukes Hmm!

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>Targets of other dimensional kind?

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>https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-priests-shouldnt-bless-nuclear-weapons-other-weapons-of-mass-destruction-orthodox-church-says>>8036716

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>The Russian Orthodox Church thinks its priests should discontinue the practice of blessing weapons of mass destruction that inflict death upon thousands of people, according to a proposal published Monday.

>

>The church released a draft document outlining its stance on the blessing of Orthodox Christians "for the performance of military duty" and "defense of the Fatherland."

>

>Russian priests have longed sprinkled holy water on various weapon systems, including submarines, ballistic missiles and space rockets, among others.

>

>"It is not reflected in the tradition of the Orthodox Church and does not correspond to the content of the Rite of blessing of military weapons, and therefore, the use of this order to “sanctify” any kind of weapon, the use of which could lead to the death of an undetermined number of people, including weapons, should be excluded from pastoral practice indiscriminate action and weapons of mass destruction," the church wrote.

>

>The proposal noted the blessing of military vehicles used on land, air and sea is not the “blessing of guns, rockets or bombing devices that the Lord is asking for, but the protection of soldiers."

>

>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

>

>The proposals will be discussed on June 1 and the public is being asked to weigh in the debate, Reuters reported.

>

>The request comes as the church and the Russian military continue to forge close ties. The armed forces are building a sprawling cathedral at a military park outside Moscow.