U.S. May Arm Subs With Conventional Warheads for Quicker Strike
The Pentagon wants to put as many as 96 conventional warheads for installation on 24 of the U.S. Navy's roughly 336 nuclear D5 Trident missiles.
This is to allow for quicker preemptive attacks on deeply buried enemy command centers or stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
The key question will be how Russian and Chinese missile warning systems are able to differentiate an attack on a terrorist target and a nuclear one aimed at both countries.
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