Mattis: There Is No Such Thing as a 'Tactical' Nuke

Thanks PO1 Tony Holland for sharing the perspective that "Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said there is "no such thing" as a tactical nuclear weapon in the context of strategies that consider the use of so-called "low yield" weapons to avert all-out nuclear war."

"I don't think there's any such thing as a tactical nuclear weapon. Any nuclear weapon used anytime is a strategic game changer," he said Tuesday at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Nuclear Posture Review and the overall National Defense Strategy.
That said, we don't want someone else to miscalculate" and underestimate U.S. resolve to respond to an attack, Mattis said. The U.S. nuclear deterrent "must be considered credible," he said.
The defense secretary was responding to questions from Rep. Susan Davis, D-California, on the proposed development of two new low-yield nuclear weapons under the review -- a new warhead for a submarine-launched ballistic missile and a sub-launched nuclear cruise missile (SLCM).
Mattis suggested that the two new weapons, the SCLM in particular, could be used as bargaining chips to convince Russia to abandon its own low-yield weapons programs and comply with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)."

Kudos to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis for speaking clearly to the Congressional questions >
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Yall have to understand a single man with a sniper 308 rife can fire one round and it be strategic in its effect.

Wise words from the SECDEF.