‘more survivable’ means people around the target can survive.
I guess this depends on your target?
They may have been out there, but I never saw these critics when China and Russia were heralding new weapons, of the same variety.
Orange man bad...
But, but - Trump is colluding with Russia. It’s true - if collusion means increasing the number of ways he can fry the Russians extra crispy.
Russia already has 2,000 low yield “tactical” nuclear warheads, but as soon as we deploy them, it is the USA that is somehow “lowering the threshold” of nuclear war. SMH.
Its almost like the mindset is saying We're going to mouse-click the enemy to death!!" Meanwhile the Russians are building some of the most powerful nuclear strategic subs with the most powerful nukes ever seen or deployed and has more than twice the explosives delivery than our subs!
We are going SMALLER while our enemies are going many times bigger!!
I'm convinced that our military leadership are really gone bonkers a long time ago.
Nuke-Lite.
I’m assuming it’s not very survivable at ground zero. It might be useful against crazy regimes with nuclear ambitions at sites a reasonable distance from population centers.
In the old days we called weapons like this “urban renewal” tools. Small nukes should be used in the jungles of Africa to take out Boko Harum camps, the new Fulani genocidal islamists of Nigeria, some Taliban major villages and towns, and any Al Shabaab sites in Somalia, Kenya, etc.
A couple little kiloton boomers would do the job and not really hurt the environment other than to make some green glass and jungle salad au flambeau.
US deploys submarine-launched low-yield nukeU.S. weapons were too powerful = less survivableThe administration argues the warhead is necessary to deter Russia.
Moscow, the argument goes, might have miscalculated that the United States was unwilling to use its nuclear weapons in response to a Russian low-yield nuclear strike because the existing U.S. weapons were too powerful.