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Like all things nuclear, the ongoing work at New Mexico’s two national laboratories to modify the B61 gravity bomb has triggered debate.
An important part of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, the modified weapon will have both improved accuracy and allow for a variable yield as low as 0.3 kiloton – a tiny fraction of the yield from the 15-kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Critics argue a highly accurate, low-yield nuclear weapon poses its own kind of danger. “The risk is that if you have a low-yield option, you might say, ‘I’ll just use this one smaller nuclear weapon to solve this problem I have, and it’ll be OK, ” said Stephen Young of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “No. It’s not OK. It could cause a chain reaction that you never predicted. Having a low-yield option is militarily useful but politically dangerous.”
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