What is the Smallest Nuclear Weapon?

The end of the Cold War era, the battle for strategic nuclear deterrence was halted, but actual deterrence continued to increase. The most amazing picture on the international stage these days is that "Uncle Sam" shouted "small equivalent" while opening the door to nuclear ban. More than 400 billion US dollars, this is the US defense budget approved by the US Congress for fiscal year 2004. An important reason for the increase in funding is that the United States lifted the 1993 ban on research and development of TNT nuclear weapons with an equivalent weight below 5,000 tons in the United States in order to accelerate the development of tactical nuclear weapons such as small-drilled nuclear weapons. If development is to be accelerated, it will be easy to guide the recovery of nuclear tests that have been suspended for 10 years. This brought an ominous sign to the world, and became a focus of readers' attention for a while.

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The end of the Cold War era, the battle for strategic nuclear deterrence was halted, but actual deterrence continued to increase. The most amazing picture on the international stage these days is, "

Compared with strategic nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons are nuclear weapon systems that are used to support forces in combat, and combat important targets such as command posts, missile positions, airports, ports, and transportation hubs within the tactical depth of enemy campaigns. Tactical nuclear weapon system is generally a weapon system composed of a lower-power nuclear bomb and a shorter throwing and launching system and a command and control system.

According to the explosion power of tactical nuclear weapons, the explosion power is usually set at 1 million tons.

Major US nuclear weapons research institutes have moved. The huge amount of emergency research funding has caused them to scramble. According to US media reports, an intelligent small nuclear bomb will soon be available, which will be converted from a submarine-launched missile warhead. This new type of small nuclear bomb can drill 18 meters deep underground to attack reinforced concrete or hard rock fortifications with a hit accuracy within 3 meters. Its intelligent system can control the direct explosion of nuclear bombs in the center of the target, and the powerful shock wave generated will tear and destroy targets in 300 meters deep hard rock mass.

The U.S. small-equivalent nuclear weapons development research hall has accelerated exponentially. The small nuclear bomb became the new favorite of the US military. But most international commentators responded with criticism. Because a small-equivalent nuclear bomb explosion cannot prevent radioactive dust from falling into the air and falling back to the ground, resulting in large-scale radioactive pollution. The development and use of small-equivalent nuclear weapons by the U.S. military has also greatly reduced the "nuclear threshold", which also easily triggers international small-equivalent nuclear weapons test competitions. The cold of the nuclear winter has hit the world that has entered the new century. There is reason to be angry and upset.