U.S. announces new NUCLEAR weapon 24 times
the power of one dropped on Hiroshima
- days after it emerged China plans to
double its warheads by 2030
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Nick Allen
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
10/30/2023 1:20:35 PM
The Pentagon has announced plans for a new nuclear bomb 24 times as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
It comes days after it emerged China plans to double its arsenal of nuclear warheads to over 1,000 by 2030.
America's proposed new B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb would be dropped from aircraft including the $692 million B-21 Raider stealth bomber, which is currently in development. Gravity bombs are unguided but the new one would have a tail kit helping with targeting and making it more accurate.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pearson365 10/30/2023 2:05:19 PM (No. 1588734)
Article notes that there are 17,000 employees at the Los Alamos facility that is developing nuclear weapons. Couldn’t a portion of these scientists be allocated to developing nuclear power plants to offset Biden’s war on fossil fuels?
Article also reminds us of Biden’s pledge during the 2020 election campaign to "bring us closer to a world without nuclear weapons so that the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are never repeated.” Just 3 years later, cities and villages in southern Ukraine resemble the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki due to conventional weapons deployed by Russia.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/30/2023 2:11:08 PM (No. 1588738)
Chairman Chi needs a new "LAP TOY"!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 10/30/2023 2:37:12 PM (No. 1588752)
It’s not a large bomb by contemporary standards, just 5 percent or so larger than the current B61. Not a significant change in size, and its yield is scalable in the field. The big change is accuracy…3 times more accurate allows a 10: ton yield to be dialed in for a hardened underground target rather than a 100:ton yield
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SkyKing1222 10/30/2023 2:39:38 PM (No. 1588753)
Welcome back to the 1950’s and 60’s arms race. The reality now is, that very soon, the majority of the population will have no historical context of their situation.
This time around MAD just might happen.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Luandir 10/30/2023 2:39:46 PM (No. 1588754)
Thank goodness we are no longer neglecting our nuclear arsenal. I fear the upgrade is long overdue.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 10/30/2023 3:07:02 PM (No. 1588758)
#3 is a salient point. The effective yield of nukes went way up after 1945.
While our nuke stockpile is old and hasn't been well-maintained, newer weapons will have the offsetting disadvantage that tests of the them is restricted to computer simulations by long-standing treaty. We can't even do underground detonations.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/30/2023 4:11:58 PM (No. 1588776)
Are these larger than the hydrogen bombs tested back in the 60s? if I recall correctly, there was a bomb (think it was hydrogen) tested back in the 60s it was so massive they only ran one or two tests.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
thefield 10/30/2023 4:27:17 PM (No. 1588783)
#1 2,000 construction workers can do it. Eith a rational fec can be done in 2.5 years. Normal government interference 16 years.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hazymac 10/30/2023 4:47:53 PM (No. 1588789)
How many MAGAtons is that? (Couldn't resist.) Fat Man (Hiroshima atomic fission bomb) was 15 kilotons.
As a historical point, sixty-two years ago today (October 30, 1961) over Mityushikha Bay on Severny Island, the USSR set off Tsar Bomba, a 54,000 pound nuclear fusion hydrogen bomb that had to have a third stage deactivated to keep the yield of the bomb under 100 megatons. The resulting explosion was a mere 59.2 megatons at 13,000 feet high, after being dropped from 34,000 feet high on a parachute, giving the bomber what the Soviets figured was a 50/50 chance to get 30 miles away before kerflooey. The crew barely made it our alive. Nobody before or since ever saw such a flash. More accurately, if they saw it, they're blind. Tsar Bomba was about 4,000 times as power as Fat Man. I recall that the USA's largest hydrogen bombs yielded about 15 megatons. I certainly hope we're keeping our arsenal up to date. Bombs don't last forever. Periodically, they must be replaced.
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How can go to war against the country that makes most of our and the rest of the world’s consumer goods? Who will make our stuff?
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17,000 working in Los Alamos. Granted, they're not all hands-on engineers with clearances but that's still a lot of opportunities for small nuggets of classified information to make it to the other side. It happened in the forties, probably happening now.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/30/2023 7:11:49 PM (No. 1588862)
Just in time for Christmas! But, wait…don’t order yet.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 10/31/2023 12:55:57 AM (No. 1588964)
Let's see.....Hiroshima bomb was about 10 kilotons, so 240 kiltons is a pretty small one. According to online sources, the typical warhead in service is around 330 kilotons....so this is a step down in power.
And we CANNOT build an ALL NEW nuke, we no longer have the capability to build the critical main nuclear component. We can only recycle old "main components" from older weapons.
And yes, I am being intentionally vague. I used to work in the industry, know a lot and intend to be 100% certain to never say anything that might possibly be construed as classified.
NOT anything big, as the bozos at DM would like you to imagine....stepping down.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 10/31/2023 12:57:14 AM (No. 1588965)
Re #4, NO, these are far, far smaller.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 10/31/2023 4:14:58 AM (No. 1588988)
Is hiding under our desks still a thing?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/31/2023 4:25:14 AM (No. 1588992)
This announcement is silly in a number of ways and obviously being done for propaganda and intimidation purposes. How can we dictate to Iran and the Norks that they can't or shouldn't have nuclear arms when we brag about our own growing capabilities? The number of nukes in the world can destroy the planet many times over and if they do start flying they won't stop until every last one is dropped or launched via missile. Yes, we need to maintain our capabilities but why tell the world? The MAD concept is no longer valid because we have too many nut cases in the world that would gladly use their weapons to advance their agenda or prove that their stupid religion is better than your religion so everybody should die.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
msjena 10/31/2023 7:26:56 AM (No. 1589048)
Is this a good thing?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
coldborezero 10/31/2023 7:33:40 AM (No. 1589060)
The Globalist Tyrant Syndicate is dead set on depopulation. They have the resources and the power to do it. Get yourselves prepared.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kafka2 10/31/2023 8:36:03 AM (No. 1589102)
Yes, hiding under your desk made as much sense as all those back yard bomb shelters with no filters on the air vent. And, the announcement of the new future bomb is lower yield than what is now in the arsenal.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/31/2023 11:20:21 AM (No. 1589206)
And now WE know why senator schummer and governor newsoom hurriedly visited china....it was to warn them of the new weapon....and explain that it was a political move to assure Americans WE are still the super power in this world even if WE are stuck with a mental munchkin in the Oval Office directed by obama and Iranians......
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This is the saber-rattling in response to saber-rattling by China, Iran and Russia. However, how much credibility is there in such an announcement from the Biden regime, with its laughably weak around the world foreign policy? I think it's weak to announce capability.... you just make sure you have capability in stock, no need to announce it. That's peace through strength. Is the US, to use the Red Chinese term, a paper tiger?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MattMusson1 10/31/2023 2:42:16 PM (No. 1589321)
The old bombs are real old using old electronics. Think of Rotary Dial Nuclear Weapons.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/31/2023 3:40:12 PM (No. 1589355)
US announces is not the same as US uses; lemme know when you load it on the delivery vehicle. It's too soon to brag and too late to quit.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Ruthless 10/31/2023 3:56:52 PM (No. 1589364)
President Trump was going to bankrupt the country and get us into WWIII. It is so comforting that "the adults" are back in charge.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 10/31/2023 6:38:24 PM (No. 1589415)
As #9 points out, the "Tsar Bomba" was a massive hydrogen bomb that was purposefully "dumbed down" under orders from its inventor the great Russian nuclear physicist, later peace-activist, Prof. Andrei Sakharov, who realized that the Teller-Ulam design was capable of more than what Americans had deployed, and ultimately designed an H-bomb that could yield 100 Megatons. The mid-atmospheric fireball of the 50 Megaton "Tsar Bomba" explosion was 5.0 miles in diameter.
China provides a huge target of opportunity for nuclear strike/retaliation, and they know it. The tens of thousands of dams built all over China are the best military targets, together with their military bases, weapons factories, and population centralized in areas vulnerable to flooding. The next best targets in China are their ports. Without commerce China would collapse. China will, however, threaten nukes on countries that can't fight back with their own.
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