🇺🇸🇮🇷 The smallest American nuclear bomb is 28 times bigger than the largest conventional one, and no war game that ever used one stopped there
Three hundred tons of TNT.
That is the lowest setting on the B61-12, the weapon some of Washington now reportedly discusses for Iran, and Steven Starr, who has briefed the UN on these questions, says the number is the danger.
It is small enough to look like a bigger bomb to a field commander, and 28 times the size of the biggest conventional weapon America owns.
The Cold War knew this.
In every NATO war game where tactical nuclear weapons were introduced in Germany, the exchange escalated until it became a full-scale nuclear war, which is why thousands of them were pulled out of Europe in the first place.
And Pickax Mountain, under a quarter mile of granite built to survive exactly this, wouldn't even fall.
The only thing a strike would destroy is the taboo that has held for eighty years.
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