US: As the situation in Ukraine developed this winter, the Stratcom chief provided the first real-world commander's assessment of what he would do to prevent nuclear war. However, the recent sharp escalation in tensions with China over Taiwan has led the high command to order a review.
The commander in chief of the US nuclear arsenal said the nation is drafting a new nuclear deterrence doctrine that calls for a simultaneous conflict with Russia and China, the Defense One news website reported on Thursday.
Commander Navy Adm. of the US Strategic Command (Stratcom). Chas Richard said more Americans need to work on ways to prevent nuclear conflict, speaking at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama.
Richard claims Stratcom executives are responding to emerging threats from Moscow and Beijing this year. Richard also stressed the need for a new deterrence theory due to the decline in institutional knowledge about the prevention of nuclear war.
The report claimed the US sent nuclear command post teams on long aerial missions this spring using its E-6 Mercury "Looking Glass" aircraft, which are modified Boeing 707s. To try and control Russian efforts, especially in Ukraine, military leaders also attempted to line up other combat orders. According to reports, Stratcom also changed the "mutually assured destruction" (MAD) doctrine of nuclear deterrence, which states that any use of nuclear weapons will result in the total destruction of the MAD and all parties involved. Since its inception nearly 75 years ago, the core doctrine has successfully prevented nuclear war.
And Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning to the collective West against interfering in the Russian special military operation in Ukraine is said to have prompted the US high military command to change the previous doctrine. He warned that such actions would have "disastrous" consequences.
Despite the fact that US military officials do not expect to use all of their nuclear arsenal, they are reportedly concerned that Russia may instead launch a limited nuclear war, which they have long seen as the use of small arms on specific targets. Were afraid to do
According to reports, these perceived threats forced Stratcom to change its strategy.
But Richard insisted that they were just a "two-sided version". The US is concerned about China's hypersonic technology, which could carry nuclear weapons, Beijing's ambitions for Taiwan, China learning from the West's response to the Ukraine crisis, or the possibility that China and Russia may overshadow their ambitions. could add up in a way that would force the US to deal with many nuclear threats that are reportedly ignored.
Yet, despite all the concerns about the hypothetical first use of nuclear weapons by China or Russia, the United States is still the only country to have used them against civilians.
In August 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Japanese cities, were hit by atomic bombs dropped by American B-29 aircraft. The nuclear explosion in Hiroshima resulted in the death of approximately 140,000 people and in Nagasaki 74,000 were killed. Most of those killed in the nuclear explosions were civilians.
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