PressTV-US to develop more ‘usable’ nuclear warheads

A former US official says the administration of President Donald Trump plans to adopt a hawkish position on the use of nuclear weapons.

Jon Wolfsthal, special assistant to former President Barack Obama on arms control and nonproliferation, said the Trump administration is seeking to loosen constraints on the use of nuclear weapons and develop a new low-yield nuclear warhead for US Trident missiles.

Wolfsthal, who saw the draft of the plans, said the US wants to use a modified version of the Trident D5 submarine-launched missiles with only part of its normal warhead.

The plans had been prepared by the Pentagon by order of the White House.

“What I’ve been told by the people who wrote the thing was what they were trying to do was to send a clear deterrent message to Russians, the North Korean and the Chinese,” Wolfsthal told The Guardian.

“And there is pretty good, moderate but strong language that makes clear that any attempt by Russia…

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