If we believe in Pentagon reports, then America is now Decorated its ability to produce nuclear weaponsIt was completed, was remarkably enough, from a single raid, in which we were included a small number of bombers, without the element of surprise and – perhaps most surprisingly – without using our own nuclear weapons. Were there No civilian casualties.
If America is ever a victim of a disarmament strike, we will not get so lightly.
Eight months ago, I wrote on the loud opinion of the Rape Don Beckon (R-Naib) of the House Sashastra Seva Samiti and other experts, that America is now Highly weak For an atomic surprise attack. A former Air Force Brigadier General Bacon had a real job of ordering to retaliate in the nuclear attack case. Such an attack, if successful, will prevent any American vengeance, our enemies will leave an independent hand to use their own nuclear weapons to destroy America
Although America has Thousands of nuclear weapons Spread worldwide, they all depend on a point of failure: nuclear command, control and communication system. To be effective, the system must protect against two frightening possibilities: first, that the US will be canceled by an atomic surprise attack, and the second, that a false warning – a sensory confusion or a phantom on the computer screen – can begin a casual war.
To prevent these dangers, the US command depends on a small fleet of the aircraft, with all the equipment required to command atomic forces in the event of war. The idea is that the aircraft will be closed on receiving warnings of an upcoming attack, and only and when nuclear weapons really reach the soil for us. This operation is called Glass, And the system that turns off the aircraft and orders American forces by air is known as “ground alert”.
Unfortunately, technology has completely surpassed this ground alert system. Modern hypersonic and submarine-launched missiles are able to strike the US in less than 15 minutes that the command aircraft seems to avoid and escape their bases. This fact is sufficient to observe the existing system alone. Even more, recent surprising attacks against Russia and Iran (both used cheap, home-made drones to achieve the right surprise) first increase the possibility of neutralizing the command aircraft by unexpected or unconventional means-and no warning.
As many other people have correctly explained, a recent pattern of small drones overfalling sensitive American military bases shows that it will be perfectly possible that we use Israeli and Ukraine methods that are on a distant scale against our Air Force. But what others have remembered is the true limit to the danger arising from such an attack. Command aircraft, in the very corner of all American military power, is at risk of sudden destruction.
In other words, it may be possible to dissect and destroy America with about 20 plastic quadcopters.
Probably the biggest threat to command aircraft is Space-based nuclear weaponsAs if Russia is now being placed in the field. Such weapons can be launched in premature classes or years, disguised as ordinary satellites, and then brought down to their goals together.
At this point, the reader may be surprised that the US government may be so decent that to allow the threat of such an existence to allow, as well as spending a large amount of dollar on controversial goods such as on controversial goods such as on controversial goods Literal Combat Ship And this M10 Booker. But not only a solution exists, but it was present and was successfully implemented for 30 years before the current system started.
In fact, the solution is very simple: if no form of reliable command post can be kept safe on the ground, then sufficient number of aircraft should always be in the air, 24/7. This system, called “airborne alert”, is largely immune to surprise, because an aircraft that is already in the air is very difficult to find and destroy an aircraft standing on the ground.
Between 1961, when the command aircraft was first introduced, and at the end of the Cold War in 1990, when the airborne alert was downed into the current ground alert, a looking glass command aircraft was always in the air somewhere over the continental America.
So why Was Airborne alert – a purely defensive operation that made America more secure than today, while threatening to any other nation – did not end? As it may appear, no proper answer has been proposed to this question.
In the grand scheme of US defense, the savings received by switching on ground alert from Airborne were inconsistent. In 1985, for example, with airborne alert on the whole loudly, the cost of the entire command and control system increased to the minimum. 1 percent Annual defense budget. It was already reduced to the minicule cost from airborne to ground alert only slightly: About 20 aircraft are still required to maintain ground alert, which was earlier needed compared to 50.
This situation is as irrational as it is dangerous. There is no effective backup for a ground alert system; Any of other other items countless on the Pentagon budget is well appropriate, if it should fail then it will be of any value. Today, almost 90 percent The defense budget is spent on non-atomic forces, all of which will be eradicated immediately or otherwise will be crippled by the attack of atomic surprise on a full scale. And broadly 10 percent None of the budget being spent on nuclear weapons will be wasted if none of these weapons can get an order to set fire.
For a moment, think back at June 2023, when five-migrants recreational submarines Shattered At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Criticized a tide wave of criticism of submarine designers Failed to follow standard procedureTo stimulate much more media interest than alarm bells ringing in the state of the US nuclear preventive system.
If history should record that the US paid less for its final defense, then it is not possible that we will damage fate similar to Titan’s unfortunate crew., Suddenly, unknown and unavoidable destruction.
Ben Olerenshow is a defense journalist who has written for various outlets including realclaredfenns and national interests specialized in nuclear weapons policy. It can be contacted benollerenshaw2@gmail.com.
