Trump's new nuclear weapon has been deployed

[WhiteTara]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-nuclear-weapon-deployed-140605025.html

WASHINGTON — A new nuclear warhead requested, designed and produced under the Trump administration, has been deployed aboard a nuclear submarine, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.

The deployment of the W76-2, a low-yield variant of the nuclear warhead traditionally used on the Trident missile, was first reported Jan. 29 by the Federation of American Scientists. The first to move out with the new weapon was the USS Tennessee (SSBN-734), deploying from Kings Bay Submarine Base in Georgia at the end of 2019, FAS reported.

Asked about the reported deployment, a Pentagon spokesman stated that it is U.S. policy to neither “confirm nor deny” the presence of nuclear weapons abroad and declined to comment on the specific details of the FAS report, such as the ship involved. However, in a Tuesday statement, undersecretary of defense for policy John Rood confirmed that the Navy has fielded the weapon.

The deployment “strengthens deterrence and provides the United States a prompt, more survivable low-yield strategic weapon; supports our commitment to extended deterrence; and demonstrates to potential adversaries that there is no advantage to limited nuclear employment because the United States can credibly and decisively respond to any threat scenario,” Rood wrote in the statement.

[dustyscamp]

1. Designed and produced under the Trump administration

[WhiteTara]

2. more survivable low-yield strategic weapon

scares me even more!

[C_U_L8R]

3. Low Yield. Perfect Trump analogy.

Isn't that what Stormy said?

[Scotch-Irish]

4. Americans need to know what he's doing.

You're not going to hear about this enough. Dem candidates need to put this kind of thing in the ad that goes along with Bill Maher's ad on tRump's speech problems.