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A Step Towards Nuclear
Doomsday
US Puts Low-Yield Nukes on Submarines in
Response to Made-up Russian ‘Escalate to
Deescalate’ Strategy
By Scott Ritter
February 13, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - The US
has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on
submarines, saying it’s to discourage nuclear
conflict with Russia. The move is based on a
“Russian strategy” made up in Washington and will
only bring mass annihilation closer.
In a statement released earlier this week, US Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood announced
that “the US Navy has fielded the W76-2 low-yield
submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
warhead.” This new operational capability, Rood
declared, “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.”
The threat underpinning justification for this new
US nuclear deterrent had its roots in testimony
delivered to the House Armed Services Committee in
June 2015 by US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert
Work, who declared that “Russian military doctrine
includes what some have called an ‘escalate to
deescalate strategy’ – a strategy that purportedly
seeks to deescalate a conventional conflict through
coercive threats, including limited nuclear use.”
However, any review of actual Russian nuclear
doctrine would have shown this to be a false
premise. Provision 27 of the 2014 edition of
‘Russian Military Doctrine’ states that
Russia “shall reserve the right to use nuclear
weapons in response to the use of nuclear and other
types of weapons of mass destruction against it
and/or its allies, as well as in the event of
aggression against the Russian Federation with the
use of conventional weapons when the very existence
of the state is in jeopardy. The decision to use
nuclear weapons shall be taken by the President of
the Russian Federation.” |
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