Thursday, 22 April 2021, 4:13 pm
US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military
responsible for America's nuclear arsenal, tweeted
the following on Tuesday:
"The spectrum of conflict
today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for
the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which
could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear
use as their least bad option."
The statement, which
STRATCOM called a "preview" of the Posture Statement it
submits to US Congress every year, was a bit intense for
Twitter and sparked
a lot of alarmed responses. This alarm was due not to
any inaccuracy in STRATCOM's frank statement, but due to the