{"id":347260,"date":"2018-02-08T00:55:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-mattis-defends-plan-to-deploy-small-nuclear-arms\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T00:55:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:55:32","slug":"prison-planet-com-mattis-defends-plan-to-deploy-small-nuclear-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-mattis-defends-plan-to-deploy-small-nuclear-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Mattis Defends Plan to Deploy Small Nuclear Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Gertz<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/mattis-defends-plan-deploy-small-nuclear-arms\/\"><br \/><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/mattis-defends-plan-deploy-small-nuclear-arms\/\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a><br \/>February 7, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Congress on Tuesday the United States will deploy small nuclear weapons on two new missiles to counter growing threats posed by Russia and China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen is that Russia and China from Ukraine, to mucking around in our democratic elections in the case of Russia, to China\u2019s militarization of features in the South China Sea, we have seen them choose to become strategic competitors with us, versus what at one time we had hoped would be some level of partnership,\u201d Mattis said.<\/p>\n<p>The defense secretary made the comments during House Armed Services Committee testimony along with Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Paul Selva on the Pentagon\u2019s latest Nuclear Posture Review, made public last week.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear review represents a major shift from the Obama administration\u2019s 2010 review that altered U.S. military doctrine away from relying on nuclear weapons under the since-outdated assumption Russia was no longer an enemy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/mattis-defends-plan-deploy-small-nuclear-arms\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, February 7, 2018  at  7:49 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/mattis-defends-plan-to-deploy-small-nuclear-arms.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/mattis-defends-plan-to-deploy-small-nuclear-arms.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill GertzWashington Free BeaconFebruary 7, 2018 Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Congress on Tuesday the United States will deploy small nuclear weapons on two new missiles to counter growing threats posed by Russia and China. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen is that Russia and China from Ukraine, to mucking around in our democratic elections in the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}