Originally appeared at AntiWar
President Biden approved in March a new nuclear strategic plan that includes preparations for a simultaneous nuclear war with Russia, China, and North Korea, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The US nuclear strategy is updated about every four years or so and is highly classified. The Times described the new strategy as the “first to examine in detail whether the United States is prepared to respond to nuclear crises that break out simultaneously or sequentially, with a combination of nuclear and nonnuclear weapons.”
US officials, including Pranay Vaddi, an arms control official on the National Security Council, have made public comments about the changes to the strategy. Vaddi said in June that the new strategy emphasizes “the need to deter Russia, the [People’s Republic of China] and North Korea simultaneously.”
The strategy also focuses on China for the first time, as the Pentagon has claimed China could increase its nuclear stockpile to 1,500 by 2035. Current estimates put China’s arsenal at about 500.
China’s arsenal is still just a fraction of what the US and Russia possess. The State Department said in July that the US has 5,748 warheads, including 2,000 that are retired and awaiting dismantlement.
According to the Arms Control Association, Russia has 5,580 warheads, including 1,200 that are retired and awaiting dismantlement. Russia has 1,549 nuclear warheads that are deployed, and the US deploys 1,419.
The New START treaty between the US and Russia caps the deployment of warheads at 1,550. While the treaty has broken down due to tensions over the war in Ukraine, both sides have committed to staying within the deployment limits, but it’s unclear if they will once New START officially expires in 2026.
While China has significantly fewer warheads than the US and Russia, a nuclear exchange between the US and China could still be enough to end life as we know it. Despite the risk of a US-China war quickly turning nuclear, US military officials are openly planning for a direct clash with Beijing and claim that the US could “win.”
The nuclear strategy’s focus on China aligns with the Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy, which names Beijing as the top threat facing the US, with Russia coming in second.
senile biden doesn’t realize his people will have to live underground for 20,000 years like rats if it ever comes to nuclear war.
since when a retard can approve anything anyway…
that’s just dumb.
as biden himself.
20000 years of fighting for the last tin can with spam like in series about zombies. grandpa dementor will make movies real.
i thought creepy biden approved a law where he can sniff children’s hair untill age 115.
wierd piece of murican trash…
time to vaporize some orcs…heheheh
time to vaporize my micro penis…heheheh
god bless putin and mighty russia
based on your consistently crazy posts i can only conclude you are an agent provocateur. opposition to the imperial ambitions of the kremlin does not require vilifying or dehumanizing the heroic russian people.
dr. strangelove lives!
“the us has 5,748 warheads, including 2,000 that are retired and awaiting dismantlement.”
obsolete “minutemens” crashing in 2 of 3 flights; good, but very old “tridents-2d5” fails too. last time t-2 almost hit english submarine. the only aircraft to launch nuclear cruise missiles is b-52. b-2 — bombs only. b-1b is out of service. glide bombs range is 100-120km launched from max.altitude. the us can’t enrich uranium to military grade. no capable anti-missile defense. no hyper-sonic.
what good are weapons when the person who gives the orders to use the weapons is an abject coward
i think the us could curb stomp russia with nukes and put put wouldn’t do anything at all but crawl in a hole with his orthodox prayer beads.
putin is so passive and mild i don’t really think he would respond to an american strike, he would just vacillate and hide in his bunker while russia gets destroyed kind of like what he has been doing since the americans staged the coup in ukraine in 2014.
oh come now, hating on putin doesn’t change the fact that you won’t be invited to zuckerbergs’ bunker, no matter how hard you shill for zionist insanity on fb or sf…lol…
it’s not very popular to point it out…but, i guess we know why all these rich-ass zionists are building bunkers all over, and why they are pressing the ukrainians and the proxy mercs into ever more insane provications…nato wants a nuclear war.