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The president boasts to Woodward of an incomparable missile. Perhaps it is the Trident II, a new tactical weapon in submarines. Mattis’s prayers
by Marco Valsania
The president boasts to Woodward of an incomparable missile. Perhaps it is the Trident II, a new tactical weapon in submarines. Mattis’s prayers
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A secret and incomparable atomic device. Donald Trump astonished the political world and the Pentagon itself with his latest America First reveal claim: “I built a nuclear weapons system that no one in this country had ever had before.” Three lines from 18 interviews with Bob Wooodward, the Washington Post reporter who uncovered the Watergate scandal and cost another controversial president, Richard Nixon, his seat, Trump reveals that Washington has “things no one has ever heard of. “. Not even “Putin or Xi” goes on to refer to the leaders of Russia and China. “What we have is incredible.”
The confessions of the commander in chief
The president’s lengthy confessions are at the heart of Woodward’s latest book Rage, Anger. And the portrait of Trump that emerges from the excerpts of the volume that will be published in full on September 15 is certainly angry and full of potentially more than embarrassing positions: the admission that he always wanted to minimize the severity of the pandemic, to date. it cost the lives of almost two hundred thousand Americans, to avoid “panic.” As well as the resounding “no” in response to the question of whether it is not necessary today to understand the anguish and pain of black Americans protesting against ongoing racism.
The “super duper” missile
However, the boast of the new “incredible artifacts” finds a particular echo, in the country and on the international scene, in the presence of a President besieged by controversy over the lack of military service due to declared foot malformations and, above all, with an extremely strained relationship with the Pentagon. Trump is not new to the improvised, inaccurate and criticized as dangerous sorties in the military and arsenals, which he claims to have strengthened to unprecedented levels: in recent months he had played the hyperbole of a “super duper” missile – that is truly superlative – that they would travel 17 times faster than today; in fact, it was a test for a future hypersonic rocket. Trump later warned over the summer to deploy federal troops against civil rights protesters in American cities, prompting reports of constitutional violations and a formal distancing from the Pentagon.
Pentagon half confirmations
In the Post, administration sources, overcome by surprise at the president’s admission, confirmed the existence of a “secret weapons system.” Although they did not reveal any details, leaving the way open to a jumble of hypotheses. Some experts have argued that it could be part of a new generation of tactical atomic weapons, smaller and more precise and less powerful and therefore more flexible. A candidate with similar characteristics is the new submarine-launched D5 ballistic missile equipped with a W76-2 warhead, a kind of mini-bomb under study by the Pentagon and the administration since 2017 and announced in the Nuclear Posture Review of the year. Following.
The Trident II
The so-called “low-yield” missile system, called Trident II, would have already been developed and deployed since the beginning of this year on a first submarine, the USS Tennessee, in service in the Atlantic Ocean. A second submarine that pits the waters of the Pacific, in turn, could already be armed with the innovative bombs.
