{"id":179515,"date":"2018-01-17T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/17\/boys-want-their-toys\/"},"modified":"2018-01-17T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:37:00","slug":"boys-want-their-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/17\/boys-want-their-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys Want Their Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/pentagon-wants-its-nuclear-tomahawks-back\">wants its nuclear tipped Tomahawk missiles again<\/a>, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 I dunno \u2026\u2026\u2026 generals don&#8217;t think that Viagra is enough for them?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Trump administration will embark on a \u201cbig-league\u201d revival of the U.S. nuclear complex after decades of decline by reviving production of plutonium cores for new warheads and reintroducing a sea-launched cruise missile, among other plans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A leaked draft of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review confirms what has been foreshadowed by U.S. military leaders over the past year: America will respond to the growing might of the nuclear forces of China and Russia, as well as emerging threats from North Korea, by broadly modernizing its outdated nuclear arsenal of Cold War-era bombers, submarines, missiles and nuclear-certified tactical fighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To counter Russia\u2019s \u201csignificant advantage\u201d in nonstrategic nuclear weaponry and expand the range of military options against China and North Korea in the Pacific theater, the Defense Department will also retrofit \u201ca small number\u201d of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) with a low-yield nuclear-strike option and invest in a modern sea-launched cruise missile. This fills a void left by the Obama administration\u2019s retirement of the nuclear-armed Raytheon Tomahawk Land Attack Missile.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Significant advantage,&#8221;&nbsp; are you sh%$#ting me?<\/p>\n<p>This is just dick waving, it&#8217;s likely to encourage more nations to examine their nuclear options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the wants its nuclear tipped Tomahawk missiles again, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 I dunno \u2026\u2026\u2026 generals don&#8217;t think that Viagra is enough for them? The Trump administration will embark on a \u201cbig-league\u201d revival of the U.S. nuclear complex after decades of decline by reviving production of plutonium cores for new warheads and reintroducing a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[446,379,477,534,406],"class_list":["post-179515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-budget","tag-military","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-proliferation","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}