Russia reveals giant nuclear torpedo in state TV 'leak'
12 November 2015

Launched by a submarine, it would create "wide areas of radioactive contamination", the document says.

The "oceanic multi-purpose Status-6 system" is designed to "destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time", the document says.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34797252

is Known that Vlad will come in the water. And the Americans, he will Blow Up.

The Hairball needs the "low-yield" nukes for border security. They will be deployed against the brown people, who "are bringing drugs, are bringing crime, are rapists," who "throw the large sacks of drugs over, and hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff," thereby causing terrible Injuries to the white people. Those that are not killed by the low-yield nukes, they will glow in the dark. In this way they can be more easily rounded up, and returned to the shithole countries.

President Obama's Secretary of Defense, worked very hard to sell this $1.7 trillion more usable nuclear weapons program. The obscenity of this program is the reason I would not vote for the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 2016.

I am increasingly aware that friends and family do not follow foreign policy issues and have fallen under the spell of the Party's hypnotic trance about the need for cold war, hot war, and increased defense spending. But I hope this forum, writers at caucus99%, knows that Ashton Carter brought this program into being, though he was only working toward a goal advocated by defense establishment think tanks and insiders of long standing.

I am thrilled that family and friends and writers at caucus99% are opposed to limited nuclear war. And I am amazed at how right I was that suddenly the hawk in our military industrial leadership no longer looks like a dove, now that we have a lunatic clown for a president instead of a nice guy. But I hope you will understand that more usable nuclear weapons were not the idea of Donald Trump. He may rot in hell for embracing the idea, but it wasn't his.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/08/04/new-us-nuclear-weapon-...

STRATEGIC CULTURE FOUNDATION
ANDREI AKULOV | 04.08.2016 | FEATURED STORY
New US Nuclear Weapon Cleared for Production Engineering

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has authorized the B61-12 warhead life-extension program (LEP) to enter the production-engineering phase – the final one prior to actual production.

Established by Congress in 2000, the NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy. While the Defense Department manages the delivery systems of the nuclear force, the agency has oversight over the development, maintenance and disposal of nuclear warheads.

The first production unit of the weapon is planned for fiscal year 2020. The LEP – a joint NNSA and United States Air Force (USAF) program – will add at least an additional 20 years to the life of the system.

The decision is part of the plan to modernize the US nuclear forces, which could cost $350-$450 billion over the next decade.

The $8 billion B61-12 LEP is probably the most expensive nuclear bomb program in US history.

On July 29, the Air Force released requests for proposals for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), which replaces the 1960s-era Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon, which will replace the AGM-86B Air Launched Cruise Missile.

… The modernization includes a new tail fin assembly for greater accuracy and would allow a lower nuclear yield in attacking targets. The B61-12 will have both air- and ground-burst capability. The capability to penetrate below the surface has significant implications for the types of targets that can be held at risk with the bomb.

A nuclear weapon that detonates after penetrating the earth more efficiently transmits its explosive energy to the ground, thus is more effective at destroying deeply buried targets for a given nuclear yield. The B61-12 is designed to have four selectable explosive yields: 0.3 kilotons (kt), 1.5 kt, 10 kt and 50 kt. According to the US National Academies’ study, the maximum destructive potential of the B61-12 against underground targets is equivalent to the capability of a surface-burst weapon with a yield of 750 kt to 1,250 kt.

The yield can be lowered as needed for any particular mission. In fact, the bomb’s explosive force can be reduced electronically through a dial-a-yield system accessed by a hatch on the bomb’s body.

Even at the lowest selective yield setting of only 0.3 kt, the ground-shock coupling of a B61-12 exploding a few meters underground would be equivalent to a surface-burst weapon with a yield of 4.5 kt to 7.5 kt...

... In his first year in office, President Barack Obama gave a landmark address in Prague in which he famously affirmed “clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” The commitment to total nuclear disarmament was a major departure from the George W. Bush administration — the first time, in fact, that the United States had declared a nuclear-free world a major policy goal.

Now, eight years later, it’s the Trump administration’s turn to lay out its nuclear weapons policy. And according to a pre-decisional draft of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) obtained by HuffPost, Trump’s Department of Defense has gone a decidedly different route: new nukes, for no good reason. ...

Obama just wanted everyone else to get rid of their nukes.

So, are Trump's demands for new nukes on top of what Obama demanded for new nukes? And requiring more testing, no doubt? Perhaps on various long-targeted countries around the world

Damn good article following, seriously needs to be read in full at source, if at all possible.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/on-the-a-bombs-70th-anniv_b...

08/07/2015 09:48 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017

On the A-Bomb’s 70th Anniversary, Obama Wants to Spend a Trillion Dollars on New Nuclear Weapons
By Elliott Negin

News organizations love anniversary stories, and if for some reason you haven’t heard, it’s the 70th anniversary of when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. The first exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, and the second over Nagasaki on August 9.

Not surprisingly, there’s been a proliferation of print and broadcast stories on the making of the bomb, the politics of the bomb, the dropping of the bomb, the survivors of the bomb — you name it. The Washington Post even ran a story about a 390-year-old Japanese white pine now in the U.S. National Arboretum that survived the Hiroshima blast.

Despite all this coverage, however, I didn’t notice any stories that bothered to mention the fact that the Obama administration wants the U.S. government to spend as much as $1 trillion over the next three decades on a new generation of nuclear warheads, bombers, submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). ...

...the Obama administration has apparently forgotten that Obama called for putting an “end to Cold War thinking” during that Prague speech. Remarkably, the administration is proposing that the U.S. government spend $1 trillion over the next 30 years to refurbish or replace the current nuclear arsenal. ...

...While the Energy Department is counting on funding for new warhead designs, the Defense Department is queuing up for new nuclear bombers, cruise missiles and submarines.

The Air Force wants a new stealth plane, dubbed the Long Range Strike Bomber, or B-3 bomber for short, that can reach targets deep inside Russia and China. The Air Force would like 80 to 100 of them at an estimated cost of $550 million each. Loren Thompson, an executive at the defense contractor-funded Lexington Institute, estimates the plane will more likely cost $900 million per plane, after factoring in inflation and a $20-billion research and development program to figure out its design. ...

...David Wright, co-director of UCS’s Global Security Program, spelled them out in a July blog post:

The president should take U.S. land-based missiles off hair-trigger alert and remove options from U.S. war plans to launch nuclear weapons based on warning of an attack. This option has led to the increased risk of a nuclear launch a disturbing number of times in past decades, and has been called for by high-level military and political officials — including President Obama.

He should also declare a policy of “sole purpose,” that is, make it U.S. policy that the only use for its nuclear weapons is to deter, and if necessary respond to, a nuclear attack. Today, the United States reserves the option to use nuclear weapons first.

[Finally,] he should require that the United States not develop new nuclear weapons, but instead refurbish U.S. warheads as they age to keep the U.S. deterrent credible. Currently the administration is proposing a new, untested warhead design that may lead to pressure on a future administration to restart nuclear testing. A resumption of testing would undermine the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as well as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. ...

So, is Trump adding more to this trillion, or just shoveling the same load of "TPTB want the world, they want it now, and they'll blow it up if they don't get their own way."?

Edited to add the 2015 date I somehow missed copy-pasting, when Obama was eager to nuke Russia and China, before the propaganda was even being pushed to generate public enthusiasm for the mass murder of the world of life.