While the country has been preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline and the election, President Trump’s administration quietly and steadily steered America’s nuclear weapons industry to its largest expansion since the end of the Cold War, increasing spending on such arms by billions of dollars with bipartisan congressional support.
“Over the next five years, the [nuclear weapons-related] costs start going up dramatically,” Mackenzie Eaglen, a former congressional staff member who is now a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said at a recent. “These are sharp, significant increases, and we are not seeing sharp, significant increases in defense spending overall.”
Since the U.S. halted its nuclear explosive testing in 1992, many weapons engineers at the nation’s key laboratories in Los Alamos, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., have chafed at policy restrictions on the creation of warheads with novel designs — a limitation that crimps their business income and, in their view, undermines the scientific excitement underlying their work.
A nuclear warhead ordered into production by Trump and his advisors — a 3-foot-tall, cone-shaped weapon with roughly half the explosive force of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima — was built last year and has begun to be deployed. The administration also reversed an Obama-era decision to retire the largest nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal, the B83, keeping roughly 100 warheads, each with 80 times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, in active status.
Gen z wants a stronger nuclear program! I don’t see the issue here? Lol
What an unfortunate choice of words...nuclear weapons booming. I suppose we should be grateful that Trump hasn't triggered a nuclear Armageddon. Given his raw stupidity and incompotence it's amazing that we're all not dead.
Lol. Me looking at all the people who actually believe this propaganda
Pensavo fosse una stella cometa sul villaggio di Betlemme
SAD WORLD WE LIVE IN! ONLY IF ALL THE EVIL NEVER EXISTS THIS WORLD WOULD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE! PEOPLE OBSESSED WITH GREED AND POWER AND CONTROL ARE PSYCHOLOGICALLY OUT OF THEIR MINDS! THEY GAVE THEIR SOULS TO THE DEVIL! AMERICA REBUKE THE EVIL IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
Sad tragic legacy All that power & he can’t decide which country to decimate so it can’t be inhabited for a thousand years if ever . There’s a marvelous saying in Albanian spoken in Sicily Piana de Albanase “Larmale” it means Poor Animal That’s Donald Trump
Fr tho like just fuck me already
They could nuke my ass 🙄🙄
Lies 🙄🖕🏻
Somebody thought they were clever with that headline.
Because that's what we need– more nuclear weapons. 🙄
thanks for this news