Former members of the security agencies and the Pentagon committee sent a letter to the US Congress, in which the call to abandon the funding of the program to build new nuclear warheads. We are talking about tactical nuclear weapons, the development of which invested US.
In a letter to the former military says, that the development program of tactical nuclear weapons "will open the gates to the nuclear disaster".
We are primarily talking about W76-2 warhead designs. These developments are going to finance, beginning with 2019 of the year. W76-2 - the development of a thermonuclear warhead W76, which in 70-80s of last century it was made at the American Enterprise "Rocky Flats' nuclear industry (Denver area, Colorado). Power was warheads 100 CT. The plans of the Pentagon - the creation of new warheads for tactical sea-launched cruise missiles. On a surface of carriers for these missiles is no data. Previously expressed version of, that the US is going to start production of new ships, which will advantageously arm cruise missiles with tactical nuclear warheads.
The letter criticized the Pentagon's argument about the fact, that the latest tactical nuclear weapons would "effectively restrain Russia" and will not allow Russia to "use their potential tactical nuclear weapons". On some specific nuclear weapons discussed, – not reported.
32 author of the letter stated, that US leaders should be more cautious in, with regard to issues of national security. But there were at one time they kept, who now writes a letter, – the big question.
Among the signatories - several former congressional Democrats. The Republican majority in Congress, as reported by Defense News, "Will be able to defend funding for the program".
