US plans to create a new type of nuclear weapons

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The administration of Donald Trump is considering the possibility of adopting a new type of nuclear weapon weapons - miniature low power devices, reported Political. According to the American administration, this will give the military more opportunities to contain potential opponents. However, experts note that the emergence of a new type of atomic bombs may give an impetus to the arms race and will make the use of nuclear weapons more likely.

The technical characteristics of the new weapons were not disclosed, it is only known that they are compact, inexpensive to manufacture, cause relatively little damage and can be delivered to the place of use by missiles, airplanes or special forces.

US plans to create a new type of nuclear weapons


If the US engages in the development of new nuclear weapons, they will send an absolutely wrong signal to the whole world. Especially now, when the international community makes efforts to non-proliferate this type of weapon, this work will be under threat. If the world's largest conventional and nuclear power decides that it is unable to defend itself without a new nuclear weapon, we will undermine our ability to prevent other countries from increasing their own nuclear capabilities.
- considers Stephen Andrisen, the representative of the State Department in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. In the administration of Bill Clinton, he oversaw weapons in the National Security Council.

The US Congress is worried that the development of new weapons will require the abolition of the 25-year moratorium on nuclear testing. Innovation of the US administration will cause fierce debates, according to the publication.

Now the core of the US nuclear arsenal consists of free-fall and adjustable B61 variable power bombs. Thermonuclear warheads are also installed on Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles and Trident II missiles deployed on submarines, reports RG
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  1. 0
    11 September 2017 13: 10
    Again a neutron bomb, but with a new sauce?
    1. +5
      11 September 2017 13: 13
      Quote: tiredwithall
      Again a neutron bomb, but with a new sauce?

      Just great for a new invent.
      - Hey congress, give a billion laughing
      1. +12
        11 September 2017 13: 18
        adopting a new type of nuclear weapon - miniature low-power devices,
        - There may be some misunderstandings: their special forces will abandon a 10-kilogram vigorous mine, they will not understand them and they will shuffle the return of 100 kilotons. And who will be to blame?
        1. +11
          11 September 2017 13: 35
          Quote: tiredwithall
          Again a neutron bomb, but with a new sauce?

          Most likely lithium-6 deuterite.
          It is considered an ideal filling for a thermonuclear bomb. Relatively cheap, ingredients can be found in any country. The power is easily scaled by the amount of substance (from several grams to several tons of lithium-6 deuterite give an explosion from several tens of tons to several megatons of TNT). In addition, unlike nuclear bombs and hydrogen, lithium deuterite is not radioactive, that is, it is stored indefinitely and does not require special protection. During the explosion, it almost does not form a "long-playing" radiation, everything goes into a shock wave.
          The only drawback is that the fuse must be heated to several million degrees so that the reaction goes. Previously, instead of a fuse, a conventional nuclear bomb was used. If you find a way to warm up the fuse without a nuclear bomb, a miniature thermonuclear bomb can really be done. How do you like a bomb in an underbarrel grenade with a power of one and a half to two tons of TNT equivalent?
          1. +2
            11 September 2017 13: 55
            Quote: Shurik70
            How do you like a bomb in an underbarrel grenade with a power of one and a half to two tons of TNT equivalent?

            Quote: Shurik70
            The only drawback is that the fuse must be heated to several million degrees

            "The watch is good, the batteries are heavy ..." (c)
          2. +1
            11 September 2017 19: 53
            Quote: Shurik70
            How do you like a bomb in an underbarrel grenade with a power of one and a half to two tons of TNT equivalent?

            laughing laughing laughing
            1. +1
              12 September 2017 03: 48
              Uh, you have an outdated design, now this is in fashion

              laughing laughing
          3. 0
            12 September 2017 03: 44
            Yeah, and then where are the pieces from such a "smart" shooter will be looking for? What is it that there were few (and are) nuclear torpedoes, nuclear shells for artillery, nuclear mines?
        2. 0
          11 September 2017 14: 49
          Quote: oldseaman1957
          adopting a new type of nuclear weapon - miniature low-power devices,
          - There may be some misunderstandings: their special forces will abandon a 10-kilogram vigorous mine, they will not understand them and they will shuffle the return of 100 kilotons. And who will be to blame?

          And the group will not even know what kind of "suitcase" they were asked to transfer - here they will find happiness if they leave nearby!
    2. Maz
      0
      11 September 2017 13: 23
      Lithium, helium or white-house? What's the point?
      1. +1
        11 September 2017 13: 31
        Quote: Maz
        Lithium, helium or white-house?

        Silicone
    3. +11
      11 September 2017 13: 24
      The topic is not new. We even made bullets under the 7,62 cartridge from California. Energy efficiency ranged from 100 to 700 kg of TNT. This was enough to evaporate 1 cubic meters. brickwork.
      1. +4
        11 September 2017 13: 48
        Quote: Monos
        We even made bullets under the cartridge 7,62 from California.

        Being close to one gram of California will kill a person in five minutes. The Americans, when they managed to get a couple of grams, transported it in a protective container weighing 30 tons.
        What kind of bullets can there be?
        1. +5
          11 September 2017 14: 00
          Quote: Gray Brother
          Being close to one gram of California will kill a person in five minutes

          Nevertheless, such a project was implemented. It was led by academician Mikhail Yurievich Dubik. The cartridges themselves were stored and transported in a special refrigerator weighing 110 kg. When removing cartridges from the refrigerator, it was required to use cartridges for 30 minutes. and shoot at maximum distance.
          1. +4
            11 September 2017 14: 11
            Quote: Monos
            Nevertheless, such a project was implemented

            This is nonsense.
            Adapted from the Popular Mechanics magazine of the 1961 sample. The article is there, something like "Facts about the third world war."
            1. +3
              11 September 2017 14: 21
              Quote: Gray Brother
              This is nonsense.

              winked Well, well ... The American magazine, of course, was up to date in 1961 about top-secret Soviet developments and that they were led by Academician Dubik, secretly classified as "I can't."
              1. +1
                11 September 2017 14: 33
                Quote: Monos
                that they were led by Academician Dubik, secretly classified as "I can’t."

                Maybe someone led the work, but the work can be carried out with varying degrees of success. It is foolish to create a device that no one can use.

                The superman first has to create.
              2. +4
                11 September 2017 14: 40
                Quote: Gray Brother
                It is foolish to create a device that no one can use.

                So it was finally closed because of the high cost and impracticality. smile But the result was obtained. And that is a fact. Experimenting is not stupid at all. It is foolish to sit exactly on the pope and do nothing.
                1. +1
                  11 September 2017 15: 10
                  Quote: Monos
                  So it was finally closed because of the high cost and impracticality.

                  Yeah, and all the witnesses died from radiation, so no one now believes in this. recourse
      2. +1
        11 September 2017 14: 04
        Quote: Monos
        We even made bullets under the cartridge 7,62 from California.

        Let's not talk about sad things, about the cost ...
        Bullets with the addition of heavy metals are made to increase efficiency with increasing charge. For the diameter and length of the trunk are finite. And everything reactive initially requires control.
  2. +3
    11 September 2017 13: 12
    It’s time to invent a thermonuclear hand grenade.
    1. +5
      11 September 2017 13: 15
      Quote: Maki Avellievich
      thermonuclear hand grenade

      Take a deeper atomic bullet!
    2. +3
      11 September 2017 13: 16
      Quote: Maki Avellievich
      It’s time to invent a thermonuclear hand grenade.

      It’s easier to immediately use a kamikaze with a backpack. laughing
      1. 0
        11 September 2017 14: 06
        Quote: Gray Brother
        Easier at once kamikaze

        No, well, it’s not interesting!
        1. 0
          11 September 2017 14: 24
          Quote: sogdy
          No, well, it’s not interesting!

          But there is no difference, in any case, the user evaporates.
          1. 0
            11 September 2017 14: 30
            But what about the Flight of the Mind (pronounce with aspiration) ?!
  3. +1
    11 September 2017 13: 14
    We would deal with the protests inside the country for a start.

    AND! well yes, there is no us embassy there.
    And so they understand successfully.

  4. +1
    11 September 2017 13: 16
    How can they not wait to play nuclear war.
    1. +3
      11 September 2017 13: 35
      So now is the season. Previously, Congress would not have endorsed the Pentagon’s claims (if only to recall the program f22). And now, in principle, wait for financial injections, there is a scientific and technical reserve. Here, as if voluntarily or not, Russia, by strengthening and plans to develop its nuclear triad, has teased the “bulldog”.
      1. +3
        11 September 2017 13: 53
        Quote: Shahno
        Russia has strengthened and plans to develop its nuclear triad teased the "bulldog".

        So free or not free? One Russia, perhaps ...? And animals (bulldogs) protected by green? impede them to breed? If there’s nothing to be done, let the cats take an example, when they’re not doing what the genitals put into order in their language ...
      2. 0
        11 September 2017 14: 08
        That is the next arms race ...
  5. +1
    11 September 2017 13: 20
    ... The technical characteristics of the new weapon were not disclosed, it is only known that it is compact, inexpensive to manufacture, and does relatively little damage ...

    Dumb as M. Zadonov said! fool NF - a priori, cannot cause "relatively small damage", because one of its properties is radiation infection! am
    1. +2
      11 September 2017 16: 01
      Quote: RusArmy235
      because one of its properties is radiation infection!

      What, really bad? about neutron knowledge bases and other pure "nuclear warheads did not hear anything? belay
      1. +1
        11 September 2017 18: 15
        What, really bad? didn’t hear anything about radiation contamination from induced radioactivity? belay
        P / S. From the WMD course, which the teachers drove into our school, I remember very well that after a neutron hit and radiation induced, the surviving equipment and shelters must be disposed of! Yes In case of emergency, short-term use of irradiated objects is allowed after 1-3 days, depending on the power of the used BUT and the distance from the epicenter of the explosion! hi
        1. +1
          12 September 2017 06: 11
          Quote: RusArmy235
          that after neutron damage and induced radioactivity, the surviving equipment and shelters must be disposed of!


          why? fast neutrons (and slow ones) do not dissipate atoms of stable elements. flew and forgot.
          Babakhnul on the territory of the enemy, mowed the population and ride on health on their tractors between the mountains of corpses.
          gorgeous spring.
          1. +1
            12 September 2017 06: 37
            Quote: Maki Avellievich
            why? fast neutrons (and slow ones) do not dissipate atoms of stable elements. flew and forgot.
            Babakhnul on the territory of the enemy, mowed the population and ride on health on their tractors between the mountains of corpses.
            gorgeous spring.

            good Well, to you then, as a "specialist and an expert in nuclear weapons" - of course I know better, I will not even argue. request But the deputy head of the department of weapons of mass destruction told us that, despite all the training manuals, he personally, in places of use of both neutron and cobalt ammunition, and after 10 years - without OZK, would not have crap! So listen, I'm better old-fashioned to his words. Yes
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  7. +4
    11 September 2017 13: 24
    Well, this can be easily answered: massively rivet neutron warheads of the kiloton class to all types of conventional weapons. A specialized tactical and operational tactical missile of a kiloton power class with warheads of 30-50 kg in weight is very compact, much more compact than Iskander missiles. Especially if with ramjet engines. Neutron burns everything within a radius of 1 km. Long-range interception missiles for Mig-31, Su-35S and so on. with a neutron warhead with the capabilities of destruction and ground targets as an option - also one of the options. Well, the special warhead for air defense systems is a long-standing practice ...
    1. +1
      11 September 2017 14: 20
      They are not stored. "Spoil" over time.
      1. +1
        11 September 2017 14: 26
        This applies to any type of weapon. Everything has expiration dates and service regulations.
        1. +1
          11 September 2017 14: 27
          Neutron spoil faster than others.
          Therefore, it is impossible to procure them for the future.
          1. +1
            11 September 2017 15: 59
            It does not matter. There is money for this, and the resources of the military-industrial complex. The nuclear complex, including the weapons complex, is what developed in the Russian Federation even in the 90s ... Russia is capable of creating and maintaining as many warheads as necessary))
          2. +1
            11 September 2017 16: 08
            Quote: voyaka uh
            Therefore, it is impossible to procure them for the future.

            Conjure with beryllium reflectors, they say, helps! laughing
            1. +1
              12 September 2017 06: 13
              Quote: Boa constrictor KAA
              Conjure with beryllium reflectors, they say, helps!


              better with gold.
      2. +1
        11 September 2017 16: 06
        Quote: voyaka uh
        They are not stored. "Spoil" over time.

        "Nothing lasts forever under the moon, my friend ,,," (c)
        Everything deteriorates over time. Unfortunately, we are also aging.
        “Have you tried recharging the SBPs !?” - Not!? - In vain! Highly recommend! (For an internship in the Nevada desert. Yeah) bully
      3. 0
        12 September 2017 03: 53
        I’ll only disclose “military secrets” for you only — unlike the United States, Russia has not only preserved but is also developing enrichment capacities. That is, how much and what "Homeland will say - it is necessary," and we will do so much on the mountain. )))
  8. +6
    11 September 2017 13: 35
    In the distant 90's in an interview on V. Listyev’s show “Rush Hour,” one of the military let slip or deliberately reported that in the 80’s, the KGB Alpha’s special forces had adopted miniature, wearable nuclear weapons, as expressed military, move the mountain from place to place behind enemy lines or evaporate the bridge.
    Z.Y. The facts cited in the article are another evidence that some people are not at all afraid of a nuclear war, which means it is highly likely to occur.
  9. +1
    11 September 2017 13: 36
    The American nation has only learned to mischief ...
  10. +3
    11 September 2017 13: 58
    Everything is new, long forgotten old ... Such a move by the Americans can untie the hands of the nuclear powers in the accumulation of miniature charges, which subsequently can lead to the appearance of such weapons in terrorists. It will be very difficult to control such charges, and the Americans themselves managed to lose large nuclear munitions.
    1. +2
      11 September 2017 16: 15
      Quote: Shadow of the Dark
      Such a move by the Americans can untie the hands of the nuclear powers in accumulation ....
      This is not the main thing. The main thing is the temptation to use SM nuclear weapons with impunity ... After using such a "baby", the "threshold" for using nuclear weapons per se is actually removed ... And this is a full-scale escalation of the nuclear conflict and its guaranteed development into TMV. But. Yes
      1. 0
        11 September 2017 20: 51
        This is not the main thing. The main thing is the temptation of the use of SM nuclear weapons with impunity ... After the use of such a "baby", the "threshold" for the use of nuclear weapons as such is virtually removed ...

        Not without this, especially if you use the “third force” to relieve yourself of responsibility for the primary use of nuclear warheads. Hiroshima Laurels do not give them peace! am A cowboy with a YBP differs from a monkey with a grenade, only in that the monkey does not understand what he is doing, and the cowboy always shifts the responsibility to his victim!
  11. +4
    11 September 2017 14: 40
    this will give the military more control over potential opponents
    It will not be surprising if such charges soon appear in wild bearded boys who use them against developers and not only. Who will restrain them if life is valuable to them only in the sense of how many infidels they can bring with them?
  12. +1
    11 September 2017 14: 43
    The time has come BZHRK Barguzin.
    1. +1
      11 September 2017 21: 40
      Rather, it pulls on PGRK "Courier" ...
  13. +2
    11 September 2017 15: 22
    Dreams of atomic pistols again? It’s scary to fight in the open - everyone invents a child prodigy?
  14. +2
    11 September 2017 16: 50
    The Donald Trump administration is considering adopting a new type of nuclear weapon - miniature low-power devices, Politico said. According to the American administration, this will give the military more opportunities to deter potential opponents. However, experts note that the emergence of a new type of atomic bomb can give an impetus to the arms race and make the use of nuclear weapons more likely.

    Now everything has become logical ...
    in the city of Chico, a fine of up to $ 500 threatens anyone who detonates a nuclear device within the city;
    wassat wassat wassat
  15. 0
    11 September 2017 18: 02
    I say, you need to bang somewhere again so that everyone crouches and smokes. And thought it wasn’t a toy
  16. 0
    11 September 2017 20: 43
    Nuclear lemons and firecrackers?
  17. 0
    12 September 2017 00: 14
    This is their decisive answer to Kim Jong-un: he blows up something there once a week and launches into outer space, in response they threaten to wipe it into powder once a week and work out which of the new wunderwaffles so that he, Un-such, will die from envy.
  18. 0
    12 September 2017 00: 38
    Well, suppose the mattress covers were hammering on us with a tiny, but still atomic bomb. How can they be sure that the answer will be symmetrical? In response, something very large will fly to them, because we have no tiny ones. Biaayadaaaa!
    1. 0
      12 September 2017 03: 59
      There is a "legend" that "once upon a time" the Americans decided to make of the MBRK something like a "long-range missile of a non-strategic class." Well, that is - to saw off nuclear charges from existing missiles (well, FIG knows why feel ) and instead cram TNT "how many will take." All would be fine, but according to the same rumors, the “evil russians” said that we’re not good at sorting lapotniki and we can’t sort your TNT warheads, so as soon as we see the launch IMMEDIATELY launch all of our Nuclear missiles across the USA. laughing laughing They say the Americans were so "depressed" that somehow they themselves changed their minds to make such "non-nuclear" missiles. feel
      1. +2
        12 September 2017 06: 17
        Quote: Mih1974
        All would be fine, but according to the same rumors, the “evil russians” said that we’re not good at sorting lapotniki and we can’t sort your TNT warheads, so as soon as we see the launch IMMEDIATELY launch all of our Nuclear missiles across the USA.


        logical answer. it’s like a raised pistol for someone else. what should he think?

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