Return To ICBMs Armed With Multiple Warheads Suggested By STRATCOM Boss
March 9th, 2024Via: The War Zone:
The head of the U.S. Strategic Command has called for “serious consideration” of a return to deploying intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, with multiple nuclear warheads. The U.S. Air Force’s LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBMs have this capability, but operational examples are presently only loaded with one warhead due to arms control agreements with Russia. The plan has been that the service’s future LGM-35A Sentinel ICBMs will also only have a single warhead for the same reasons.
U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) boss Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton highlighted the importance of looking into returning to deploying ICBMs with more than one warhead, also known as a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) configuration, while testifying before members of the Senate earlier today. STRATCOM oversees the U.S. military’s triad of nuclear deterrent forces, which include silo-based ICBMs, nuclear-capable bombers, and nuclear ballistic missile submarines.
So many weapons, we’ve got to put them somewhere to make room for the new ones we’re building. We must find more ways to use them up. Let’s make it impossible to avoid war! No accords, agreements, armistices… not even surrenders! (Should I wear a cocktail dress or an evening gown to receive my Nobel Prize?)
Just wear a cocktail. And maybe a hat.
Nuclear weapons could wipe out all life on this on this planet – if used properly.
Regarding the Gazacaust:
It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening, it wasn’t happening.