US says atomic arms to deter conventional as well as nuclear attacks (Image Credit: Space war)
The United States intends for its nuclear arsenal to deter “all forms of strategic attack,” including those involving conventional weapons, the Pentagon said in a strategy document released on Thursday.
“This includes nuclear employment of any scale, and it includes high-consequence attacks of a strategic nature that use non-nuclear means,” a senior defense official told journalists.
The unclassified version of the US military’s Nuclear Posture Review also contains a stark warning for North Korea’s Kim Jong Un against employing the country’s growing atomic arsenal.
“Any nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its Allies and partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of that regime. There is no scenario in which the Kim regime could employ nuclear weapons and survive,” the strategy says.
Kim has declared the country an “irreversible” nuclear power, effectively ending negotiations over his banned arms programs.
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Russia undertakes nuclear drills as fighting heavy near Bakhmut
Moscow (AFP) Oct 26, 2022
Russia’s strategic forces carried out drills Wednesday, including a test launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine, further stoking concerns that a nuclear weapon could be deployed in the Ukraine war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin surveyed the drills carried out by his nuclear-capable forces as Moscow persisted in claiming, without offering evidence, that Kyiv was developing a “dirty bomb.”
On Monday the Russian foreign ministry posted photographs of ostensible nuclear materials on socia … read more
