Tag: Nuclear Responses to Non-Nuclear Attacks

NOVANEWS By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout  (Image: rudall30 / Shutterstock) Amid the media frenzy surrounding the Nunes-Trump memo, the Pentagon officially released its 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) last week. The NPR calls for the development of leaner, meaner nuclear weapons and lowers the threshold for the use of nukes. Donald Trump must be thrilled. During the presidential campaign, he questioned a senior foreign policy adviser about nuclear weapons three times during a briefing, asking, "If we had them why can't we use them?" This new strategy opens the door to first-use of nuclear weapons, which is prohibited under international law. The NPR calls for "low-yield" nuclear weapons on submarine-launched ballistic missiles -- weapons that could cause as much damage as the bombs the U...