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Stephen Schwartz
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Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • I write primarily about nuclear weapons (including history, costs, accidents, and policy), and the Presidential Emergency Satchel (aka the nuclear “Football”).
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Here is some useful background information on the new B61-13 thermonuclear gravity bomb from @nukestrat.bsky.social@mattkorda.bsky.social@fedsci.bsky.social:
Biden Administration Decides To Build A New Nuclear Bomb to Get Rid Of An Old Bomb - Federation of A...
[UPDATED] The Biden administration has decided to add a new nuclear gravity bomb to the US arsenal. The bomb will be known as the B61-13.
Kaku may have been trying to make a distinction between Megaton-yield nuclear weapons (which are always hydrogen or thermonuclear) and relatively smaller kiloton-yield weapons like the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But with one exception, all US nuclear weapons are now hydrogen bombs.
Huh, seems like a midlife upgrade program, I wonder why they can't upgrade existing -7s
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Stephen Schwartz
@atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • I write primarily about nuclear weapons (including history, costs, accidents, and policy), and the Presidential Emergency Satchel (aka the nuclear “Football”).
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