Dear CCI Friends,
The heat is racheting up to accept and use “small nuclear weapons” by our U.S. war planners.
New “small” U.S. nukes were deployed last month in submarines in the Pacific Ocean and are rumored to be in the Atlantic. How small are they? About a third the intensity of the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima. Once fired, they would devastate another country similar in area to our entire San Francisco Bay Area, not to mention the radiation and particles that would spread hundreds of miles throughout surrounding territories. What kind of enemy do we have that deserves this sort of devastation? I ask you, “What kind of nightmare are we Americans living in?”
Does anyone think if, by design or accident, these small Nukes are launched toward another country that there won’t be larger Nukes returned? For what purposes would our decision makers make or use such a weapon?
This, among other great fears, is why America’s nuclear physicists at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday clock to 100 seconds before midnight just a few days ago … for the first time ever.
Will we Americans wake up and demand that this nuclear escalation stops and these weapons be removed from our oceans? Or do we silently act as though they don’t exist … until they are fired and the volley starts?
The grave fear of nuclear weapons is why we at CCI came into existence 36 years ago. It is hard to believe that the danger is even greater today than it was then.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Defence Talk: Pentagon Confirms ‘Low-Yield’ Nuclear Weapon on Submarine
The Epoch Times: Low-Yield Nuclear Missile Added to Submarine Arsenal, Pentagon Confirms
I would like to point out that the allegations made toward Russia regarding the use of nuclear weapons in the above articles are totally fallacious. President Putin has reiterated over and over that Russia would never fire a nuclear weapon unless Russia is hit first, then there would be all-out response to the sender.
The Sun: Vladimir Putin vows to use nuclear weapons if the US attacks Russia with nukes