{"id":110904,"date":"2018-05-14T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=110904"},"modified":"2018-05-10T17:47:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:47:51","slug":"the-art-of-war-the-b61-12-americas-new-nuclear-parcel-bomb-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/05\/the-art-of-war-the-b61-12-americas-new-nuclear-parcel-bomb-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of War: The B61-12, America\u2019s New \u201cNuclear Parcel Bomb\u201d – Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 May 2018 – The new B61-12 nuclear bomb<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 which the US is preparing to send to Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland and probably other European countries \u2013 is now in its final stages of development.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This was announced by General Jack Weinstein<\/strong>, deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, responsible for nuclear operations, speaking on May 1 at a symposium of the Air Force Association in Washington, in front of a select audience of senior officers and military industry executives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe program is doing extremely well,\u201d the general noted with satisfaction, specifying that \u201cwe have already conducted 26 engineering, development, and guided flight tests of the B61-12.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The program provides for the production of about 500 B61-12\u2019s, beginning in 2020, for a cost of approximately 10 billion dollars. (This means that each bomb will cost twice what it would cost if it were built entirely of gold).<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YR-_xqZnKQM<\/p>\n

Source: PandoraTV<\/strong><\/p>\n

The many components of the B61-12 are designed in the Sandia National Laboratories of Los Alamos, Albuquerque and Livermore (in New Mexico and California), and produced in a series of plants in Missouri, Texas, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The bomb is tested (without nuclear charge) in the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.<\/p>\n

Read More: America\u2019s New Nuclear Bomb is \u201cOfficially Authorized\u201d For Deployment Against [???]. B61-12, Equivalent to Four Hiroshima Bombs, \u201cHarmless to Civilians\u201d \u2026<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The B61-12 has entirely new \u201cqualities\u201d compared to the current B61 deployed in Italy and other European countries \u2013 a nuclear warhead with four selectable power options; a flight system that guides it with precision onto the target; the ability to penetrate into the subsoil, even through reinforced concrete, and explode at depth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The greater precision and the penetrating ability make the new bomb suitable for attacking command-center bunkers , so as to \u201cdecapitate\u201d the enemy country. A 50 kt B61-12 (equivalent to 50 thousand tons of TNT, three times the Hiroshima bomb)<\/strong> that explodes underground has the same destructive potential as a nuclear bomb of over one megaton (one million tons of TNT) that explodes on the surface.<\/p>\n

The B61-12 can be dropped from the US F-16C\/D fighters deployed in Aviano, and from the Italian PA-200 Tornados deployed in Ghedi. But the new F-35A fighters are needed to exploit all the capabilities of the B61-12 (especially its guidance system). This involves the solution of other technical problems, which are added to the numerous problems that occurred with the F-35 program, in which Italy participates as a second-level partner.<\/p>\n

The complex software of the fighter, which has been modified over 30 times so far, requires still further updates. Modification of the 12 F-35\u2019s will cost Italy approximately 400 million Euros, which must be added to the still unassessed sums (estimated at 13-16 billion Euros) for the purchase of 90 fighters and their continuous modernization. This money will be State-funded (i.e. using our money), while the money from the production of the F-35 will end up in the coffers of the military industries.<\/p>\n

The B61-12 nuclear bomb and the F-35 fighter, which Italy receives from the US, are therefore part of a single \u201cparcel bomb\u201d that will blow up in our faces. Italy will be exposed to further dangers as a forward base for the US nuclear strategy against Russia and other countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is only one way to avoid this:<\/p>\n