US is upgrading it's nuclear arsenal and even redesigned a new nuke for the B-2 / F-35 (B61-12) they are also updating the ICBM/SLBM and Bomber delivery as with the B-2 noted above (budget pdf below) Newer SLBM capable subs (Columbia class) are being built, the Atlantic Fleet has been reactivated this year link: https://www.maritime-executive.com/...lishes-2nd-fleet-to-counter-russia#gs.QDP00M0
Little info on the B61-12
https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/article...nd-b61-12-life-extension-program-flight-tests
"$40 million to redesign the bomb to enable the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to carry the weapon internally by 2017. This version is designated Mod 12. The four hundred B61-12 bombs will be used by both tactical aircraft (such as the F-35) and strategic aircraft (such as the B-2) and the Tail Subassembly (TSA) will give them Joint Direct Attack Munition levels of accuracy, allowing the fifty kiloton warhead to have strategic effects from all carrying aircraft"
FEMA also opened a new wing within the Agency to create new brochures (similar to the 50s and 60s dealing with nuclear fallout, has all the earmarks of Civil Defense (CD) era
FEMA is updating its; 'Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation 2010 Sec Ed' (pdf below)
FEMA website; https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
Exploring Medical and Public Health Preparedness for a Nuclear Incident
http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/Activities/PublicHealth/MedPrep/2018-AUG-22.aspx
Nuclear Workshop Briefing (pdf)
http://www.nationalacademies.org/hm...edPrep/2018-AUG-22/Nuke Workshop Briefing.pdf
Chinese Military Joining Russians for Nuclear War Games
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-military-joining-russians-nuclear-war-games/
New Start treaty expires in 2021, negotiations was supposed to start February of this year to extend it and Trump already condemned the treaty from 2010, with both the SALT I/II treaties dead and the New Start treaty expiring, giving china, iran and north korea under no nuclear treaty and russia's cheating, I don't see a new treaty!?!?
Little info on the B61-12
https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/article...nd-b61-12-life-extension-program-flight-tests
"$40 million to redesign the bomb to enable the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to carry the weapon internally by 2017. This version is designated Mod 12. The four hundred B61-12 bombs will be used by both tactical aircraft (such as the F-35) and strategic aircraft (such as the B-2) and the Tail Subassembly (TSA) will give them Joint Direct Attack Munition levels of accuracy, allowing the fifty kiloton warhead to have strategic effects from all carrying aircraft"
FEMA also opened a new wing within the Agency to create new brochures (similar to the 50s and 60s dealing with nuclear fallout, has all the earmarks of Civil Defense (CD) era
FEMA is updating its; 'Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation 2010 Sec Ed' (pdf below)
FEMA website; https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
Exploring Medical and Public Health Preparedness for a Nuclear Incident
http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/Activities/PublicHealth/MedPrep/2018-AUG-22.aspx
Nuclear Workshop Briefing (pdf)
http://www.nationalacademies.org/hm...edPrep/2018-AUG-22/Nuke Workshop Briefing.pdf
Chinese Military Joining Russians for Nuclear War Games
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-military-joining-russians-nuclear-war-games/
New Start treaty expires in 2021, negotiations was supposed to start February of this year to extend it and Trump already condemned the treaty from 2010, with both the SALT I/II treaties dead and the New Start treaty expiring, giving china, iran and north korea under no nuclear treaty and russia's cheating, I don't see a new treaty!?!?