NTI Hosts Seventh Meeting of Cyber-Nuclear Forum
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B-61: Massively expensive, no real military capability
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In a new op-ed, Steve Andreasen describes how little value the B-61 offers: "Over the last 20 years, the military rationale for continuing these deployments has evaporated. During a briefing in 2010, the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. James E. Cartwright, stated that U.S. tactical nuclear bombs in Europe did not serve a military function not already addressed by U.S. strategic and conventional forces. In the U.S. and allied militaries, you have to look hard to find a dissenting voice."
In a time of sequestration, "if Americans understood that their government plans to spend about the same amount of money this year, $537 million, on the B61 bomb as it will spend on Alzheimer's research, while financing nearly three-quarters of NATO's military spending, the B61 would deservedly become a dead man walking."
Read the full op-ed.
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