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The Washington Post reports:
In the midst of reflecting upon how close the United States had come in 2017 to war with North Korea, Trump revealed: “I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before.”
“We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before. There’s nobody — what we have is incredible.”
Woodward writes that anonymous people later confirmed that the U.S. military had a secret new weapons system, but they would not provide details, and that the sources were surprised Trump had disclosed it.
There is so much in this Post piece on the Woodward book that it’s buried in like the 30th graph that Trump accidentally revealed a new U.S. nuclear weapons system
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 9, 2020
Trump casually disclosed the existence of a top-secret nuclear weapons system while bragging to Bob Woodward. pic.twitter.com/58gCkiHI7I
— Matt Ford (@fordm) September 9, 2020
One of the lesser bombshells in Bob Woodward’s new book is Trump’s brag that he has a secret new super weapon. I have some ideas about what he’s talking about – with the caveat that Trump often doesn’t know what he’s talking about and often just makes stuff up. 1/ pic.twitter.com/GURXCnobK8
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) September 9, 2020
Most likely, he means the “low-yield” warhead the Navy deployed on its strategic subs late last year. It is about a 5-kiloton yield (about 1/3 the size of the Hiroshima bomb and 1/30 to 1/90th the size of the warheads usually on the sub-launched missiles. https://t.co/9llvJkIQmz
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) September 9, 2020
Trump’s right that no one else has this weapon BECAUSE IT’S A STUPID IDEA. Listen to this @AtTheBrinkPod episode for more on why it’s idiotic to make nuclear weapons more usable, thus making nuclear war more likely. https://t.co/At3lfDRvHf
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) September 9, 2020
Trump could also be referring to the still-secret work on hyper velocity missiles (they go many times speed of sound) or even the newish B-21 bomber. But none are super weapons or will change the strategic balance. They are just more tinder for the fire. Nothing to brag about.
— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) September 9, 2020