https://globalsecurityreview.com/re-establishing-non-strategic-nuclear-capabilities-in-the-united-states-navy/ A division of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS) Mon, 06 May 2024 13:08:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://globalsecurityreview.com/re-establishing-non-strategic-nuclear-capabilities-in-the-united-states-navy/#comment-226 Mon, 06 May 2024 13:08:19 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=27763#comment-226 TSgt Atkins has penned an excellent discussion on the need for SLCM- N or something with very similar tactical nuclear capabilities. Much has been written on the need for SLCM- N elsewhere, all of it compellingly true, yet this new GSR article focuses on something else compelling: To be maximally effective at nuclear deterrence, a system must be evaluated prospectively from the tactical perspective of effective warfighting IF (and ONLY IF) deterrence fails. Any nuclear weapons we own that are “unusable” in the adversaries’ minds will NOT give an effective deterrent effect. Nor will weapons that sit in CONUS inventory, obsolescing, without proper personnel training and comprehensive operational doctrine and infrastructure. The US suffers a serious lack of adequate low-yield nuclear deterrence capacity AND capability. Let us hope and pray that TSgt Atkins’s article will further encourage Congress to instigate redressing this lack, before too late.

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