First on Fox: A group of influential conservatives and lawmakers warn the Trump administration that the United States has no tactical nuclear weapons Fight against China If war breaks out in the Indo-Pacific.
The 13-minute video obtained by Fox News Digital and will be released on Thursday, released by the Heritage Foundation. Nuclear arsenal It’s outdated, the latest weapon is nearly 40 years old, as modern as Grandpa’s old-fashioned Covet.
Military experts across Washington have begun to eliminate potential situations if China invades Taiwan and the United States.
The video begins by proposing a scenario where China may launch tactical nuclear weapons to destroy the U.S. air base in Guam, killing 3,000 in an effort to “try to change the wave of combat in their favor.”
According to US intelligence companies
Military vehicles carrying the DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile cross Tiananmen Square on October 1, 2019 in Beijing. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
“The president hopes to respond with our own tactical nuclear weapons to target similar Chinese goals. All of this has only one problem: if we try, we may not be able to perform such a task. ”
The video believes that the United States has abandoned the accumulation of tactical nuclear weapons, which are powerful but smaller and more targeted than the shocked strategic nuclear weapons.
Since the end of the Cold War, according to Bob Peters, a strategic deterrent researcher for the legacy, the United States “has greatly reduced the number of nuclear weapons around the world, signed multiple weapons control agreements with the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, and today, today’s arsenal is 85% smaller than the Cold War-height weapons.”
The United States dismantled naval and land-based tactical nuclear weapons from South Korea in 1991 and retired a nuclear variant of the Tomahawk cruise missile stationed in the Pacific.
Senior member of the Armed Forces Committee R-Neb. “We think we think the breakdown of the Soviet Union is controlled by Russia. We have always believed that China will be an economic threat,” Senator Deb Fischer said in the clip.
China has been building its missile capabilities, including strategic and tactical nuclear weapons. (Reuters/Longe beam)
But now, China has tripled its nuclear arsenal in the past five years and plans to increase its warheads from 500 to 1,000 by 2030.
Peters noted that Arsenal’s latest nuclear weapons are now over 35 years old, and many are already decades old, “will retire and replace them in the 1980s.”
“Just like the Cadillac was bought by our grandfather in 1975, we have been maintaining a strategic deterrent in America’s support for life,” Peters said.
R-Texas Rep. Chip Roy blamed it for decades of focus at the expense of the threat from the Indo-Pacific region.
“Part of it is what I call the hangover of Endless War, where we no longer have a strong deterrent, but are involved in the endless conflict for a quarter of a century, which has done a huge damage in terms of blood and treasure.”
China has not only established its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, but also its anti-ship nuclear weapons and their fractional orbital bombing systems, i.e. space-based platforms that may reduce including nuclear ammunition from nuclear ammunition to the surface of the earth.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang I met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi earlier this month to discuss nuclear weapons. (via Reuters Pool)
“At the same time, China has built long-range ultrasonic missiles with nuclear power that may be able to deliver nuclear weapons to U.S. homes in a timely manner, with little or no notice,” Peters warned.
The video argues that the United States has too few tactical nuclear weapons compared to China – a weapon that will provide a strong response but avoid population restrictions strategic nuclear weapons.
“Currently, we are preaching weapons control, but nothing is built,” the video notes. “We must modernize the existing strategic Arsenal and replace decades of warheads and missiles that were supposed to retire in the 1980s and 1990s.”
“We need a stronger but modern navy,” Roy said. “Not based on what the K Street contractor said was needed, but what do we actually need?”
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“The world is really looking at allies and opponents. The United States will accept decline and live in a world where the Chinese, Russians, maybe the Iranian regime and North Koreans can successfully coerce the United States of America to prevent us from the terminology of our prosperity and freedom in order to enable the American people to benefit from our prosperity and freedom in our prosperity and freedom?” said Rebecca Heinrichs, a senior fellow at the Heritage.
“The United States must give Chinese leaders military capabilities that today is not a day to fight with the United States or its allies,” said Charles Richard, former head of the U.S. Strategic Command.
