Experts say this new higher-yield nuclear bomb appears intended to pave the way for retiring the older B83 megaton bomb.

US to build new nuclear gravity bomb::Experts say this new higher-yield nuclear bomb appears intended to pave the way for retiring the older B83 megaton bomb.

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The US is so fucking stupid:

      this weapon was made to reflect the changing security environment in line with the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review. That study said the military needed to modernize its nuclear forces to properly deter its two main nuclear-armed competitors, China and Russia.

      There’s really no reason to have “better” bombs. It’s MAD either way. This is just the industrial military complex going full steam in 2023. And only the US can, or else that would of course mean war…