The heritage report urges us to triple nuclear warheads by 2050

First on Fox: A new report warns that the American nuclear arsenal is dangerously exceeded and too small to face increasing global threats – and recommends almost triple the number of American warheads deployed by 2050.

The report, obtained for the first time by Fox News Digital, argues that the current strength of America of around 1,750 nuclear weapons deployed leaves the vulnerable nation at a time when Moscow, Beijing and Pyongyang widen all their arsenals at a dizzying speed.

According to the Pentagon, China alone built 100 new nuclear weapons per year, and is on the right track to reach strategic parity with the United States in the mid-2030s.

“The last warhead we were built in 1989,” said Robert Peters, author of the Heritage Report, at Fox News Digital.

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The Russian army is launching a yars intercontinental ballistic missile during exercises in an aerodrome in Russia. (Press service from the Russian Defense Ministry via AP, file)

“The size of the force we have now … It was a conception of the force that appeared when President Obama was in office in 2010, and the hypotheses were in 2010 that there would be no real competition between the United States and Russia, and China was not even a real actor on the nuclear ground.”

The report, written by Robert Peters of Allison Center for National Security in Heritage, proposes that Washington extends its strength to around 4,625 nuclear weapons deployed operational by 2050.

This number would include around 3,500 strategic warheads – transported by intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), ballistic missile submarines and bombers – and approximately 1,125 non -strategic weapons, such as gravity and missiles.

It happens in the middle of warnings that Moscow maintains thousands of non-strategic nuclear weapons in Europe, exceeding American stocks from ten to one, while China rushes to deploy stealth bombers, submarine missiles and even orbital strike systems. North Korea already has around 90 warheads and continues to test missiles that can reach the American homeland.

“We have an arsenal today which is decades beyond its planned life cycle, and a strength construction designed for a very benign world.”

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Peters’ proposal envisages a modernized force including new Sentinel ICBM, submarines of Columbia class ballistic missiles, B-21 stealth bombers with nuclear compensation, long-range cruise missiles and hypersonic theater weapons. The plan would always maintain American forces below the levels of cold war, but clearly above today’s posture.

It presents a regional nuclear allowance plan in each theater, with the greatest number of assets, 3,200 warheads, placed under the command of the North and focuses on the defense of the fatherland. Some 750 warheads would be placed in Europe and 675 in the Indo-Pacific region.

He asks Sentinel ICBMS to replace the minuteman III and B-21 and B-52 jets with new long-range cruise missiles.

During the Cold War, the United States aligned tens of thousands of warheads, deployed in Europe, Asia and at home. The new 2050 arsenal would always be much smaller than the levels of cold war.

“An American president with certain regional nuclear options, but only the capacity to limit damage in token would be quickly confronted with a limited nuclear conflict with two unpleasant options: to abandon or threaten generalized attacks against the adversary homeland, thus inviting a response in kind, which means suicide,” warns the report.

Skeptics often ask why nations need thousands of nuclear weapons while one warhead can level a city. Peters argues that this is a false idea rooted in the imagery of the cold war of the clouds of mushrooms on Manhattan.

North Korea has around 90 nuclear warheads. (KCNA via Reuters)

In reality, most modern nuclear warheads are not designed for “city gaps” but to strike enemy nuclear forces – silos, missile fields and command and control centers. China, for example, built up to 500 ICBM silos hardened in distant deserts. Military planners assume that he could take at least two American warheads to guarantee the destruction of each site.

As Peters says, “the goal is to never get to this point. This is why you have nuclear weapons, to make sure you never get to this point.”

We do not know if the current political leadership would take into account the recommendations of Peters. President Donald Trump proposed “denuclearization” talks with American opponents.

“Trump does not very naturally like nuclear weapons,” said Peters.

But, he added, “we tried (stripping) under President Obama in 2009 and 2012 and no one followed”.

“Huge sums are spent on nuclear, and destructive capacity is something that we don’t even want to talk about today, because you don’t want to hear it,” Trump sounded in the Davos World Economic Forum, Switzerland, February.

“I want to see if we can denuclearize, and I think it’s very possible,” suggesting discussions on the issue between the United States, Russia and China.

President Vladimir Putin The announcement of Russia suspend its participation in the new departure treaty in 2023 against American support in Ukraine. Russia had often been surprised in violation of the terms of the agreement. But China has never embarked on negotiations with the United States to reduce weapons.

North Korea has rejected any suggestion of denucleization from the United States

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In September, Russia proposed an extension of one year of the new departure treaty, which expires technically in 2026, but the White House has not yet responded to this proposal.

The widening of the arsenal will not be cheap. But at around 56 billion dollars, the United States only spent about seven percent of the defense budget on nuclear weapons, says Peters.

The report also requires that nuclear capacities be deployed forward in Finland and Poland, a proposal which is certain to make Kremlin and would reduce strike times from hours to a few minutes.

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Nuclear weapons are currently accommodated in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands – bases chosen during the Cold War when seated only 150 miles from the Soviet front line. But Russia’s front line has now moved 800 miles to the east.

He appealed similar to the implementation of nuclear capacities South Korea. Washington periodically deploys submarines from American nuclear weapons in South Korea and involves Seoul in its nuclear planning operations in exchange for a Seoul agreement so as not to develop its own nuclear weapons.