At the beginning of 2024, there was news that the United States was going to develop a new nuclear bomb, and the United States, as a pioneer in the field of nuclear **, obviously already has the largest number of nuclear bombs in the world, so why should it develop a new nuclear bomb?
When it comes to nuclear bombing, many people can't help but think of the United States and Japan, the first country in the world to build an atomic bomb is the United States, and the first and only country in the world to be bombed by an atomic bomb is Japan, and now, the United States has announced that it will develop a new nuclear bomb.
During World War II, Truman took office as the 33rd ** of the United States, and received a plan called the Manhattan Project, the so-called Manhattan Project is the plan of the US War Department to use nuclear fission reaction to develop an atomic bomb, and this project, the initial plan will cost about 100,000 personnel and 2 billion US dollars, and the ultimate goal of the US Department is to build two atomic bombs.
Truman was opposed at first, such a lethal **, if it is really made, he can not predict the consequences, but later other American ** and many scientists said at the meeting that the war is fierce, even if the United States does not develop this kind of **, I am afraid that other countries will develop it in the future.
In the end, the Manhattan Project was unanimously adopted and began to be carried out, in the process of advancing the plan, the United States can be said to spend a lot of money to make the plan go smoothly, the whole project at its peak, brought together a large number of scientists from all over the world led by Oppenheimer, the number of doctoral titles is innumerable, and even many Nobel laureates have participated in this project.
It is said that at its peak, the Manhattan Project used more than 500,000 people, and the total cost reached 2.5 billion US dollars, and this cost was not comparable with all the previous tests, finally, on July 12, 1945, the United States realized the assembly of the world's first atomic bomb, and at 5:30 a.m. on July 15, after deliberation, the United States finally chose to conduct an atomic bomb ** test in a desert in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
At the moment of the atomic bomb, a loud bang resounded in the sky, and the "red cloud" formed by the atomic bomb was shocking, and this was the process of the birth of the world's first atomic bomb.
After the successful development of the atomic bomb, it is time to apply it to the battlefield, the power of the atomic bomb as early as the day of the test shocked Truman and many of the United States, if this kind of nuclear ** is really applied to the battlefield, it may rewrite the history of war in the entire world.
In the face of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and Japan's actions did not seem to mean to stop the war, even after several disastrous defeats, Japan had no intention of surrendering, and if the United States did not stop it, perhaps the United States would face another large-scale ground battle.
After much deliberation and consideration, it was finally decided that Truman, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek jointly issued the "Potsdam Proclamation" to Japan, which mentioned that the Allies would give Japan a final blow until they stopped resisting, but if Japan immediately announced its unconditional surrender, the atomic bombs would not reach Japan.
Unfortunately, Japan still did not surrender, so the United States eventually dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
The launch of these two atomic bombs caused countless casualties in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the land could not be cultivated, biological mutations, and various strange diseases appeared one after another.
The United States has made the world aware of the power of nuclear bombs, but now there is news that it will develop a new nuclear bomb.
According to Zaobao.com, citing Reuters, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it will soon develop a new nuclear bomb, which will be 24 times more powerful than the two atomic bombs dropped during World War II.
Why did the United States suddenly develop a new nuclear bomb?
The U.S. side said that the main purpose of developing the new nuclear bomb is to strengthen the deterrence of the United States and protect its allies.
And U.S. Assistant Defense Secretary Plumm said, "It is incumbent upon the United States to continue to assess and deploy the capabilities we need to effectively deter and, if necessary, respond to a strategic attack, while reassuring our allies that they will be protected." ”
The veracity of this reason is not yet known, but it is certain that the United States is imperative to develop a new nuclear bomb.
Not only that, but the Department of Defense also issued a statement on October 27, 2023, saying that the Pentagon will also approve some funds for the development of new nuclear bombs.
As soon as this news was announced, some experts in the United States immediately launched a study, and the study believed that now China and Russia are growing stronger, and the development of nuclear weapons is gradually threatening the United States, especially China, and the US Department of Defense estimates that China currently has at least 500 nuclear warheads, so the United States needs to modernize their nuclear forces to properly deter China and Russia.
So, what exactly is the new nuclear bomb that the United States is going to develop?
According to the statement issued by the Ministry of Defense, it can be known that the new nuclear bomb to be developed by the United States this time is called the B61-13 nuclear bomb, and according to the introduction of "Defense News", the B61-13 is expected to be developed on the basis of the B61-12, and the yield of the B61-13 has reached 360 thousand tons, which is similar to the B61-7 type.
In the sixties of the twentieth century, the United States has developed eleven B-61 series nuclear bombs, and at present, B61-7 is the main force of many nuclear bombs in the United States.
It is not difficult to see that if the B61-13 nuclear bomb is successfully developed, it will be very powerful, so which fighter will this nuclear bomb be deployed on?
A Pentagon spokesman said the aircraft capable of carrying the new nuclear bomb was the B-21** bomber, developed by the Air Force and Northrop Grumman, but that the bomber was still under development.
Since it is so powerful, how much will it cost to develop such a new nuclear bomb? The Sandia Laboratory of the US Department of Energy, which is responsible for the development of the project, mentioned in an interview that the average cost of the B61-12 nuclear bomb is $27.5 million, which is more expensive than ** at the same weight.
Hans Christensen, a nuclear expert at the Federation of American Scientists, said that the B61-13 will use a shell and tail kit similar to the B61-12, and the warhead part will be the same as the B61-7 nuclear bomb, so that the original production line can be slightly modified, save development costs, and make full use of the existing production line of the B61-12 nuclear bomb in the United States.
The reduced cost means that there is a possibility of mass production of this new nuclear bomb, so will the United States produce new nuclear bombs in large quantities?
The U.S. side claims that China's and Russia's nuclear forces will pose a threat to the U.S., and they need new nuclear bombs to strengthen their deterrence, and based on the bomb yield of the new nuclear bombs, it is reasonable to assume that the B61-13 should be able to destroy solid underground bunker targets.
And the country with these hard underground bunkers, which could be Russia or China, according to Defense News, the B61-13 could replace old nuclear bombs such as the B61-7 and B83-1 in the United States in the future.
The yield of B83-1 reached 1.2 million tons of TNT, and during the Obama period, Obama announced that he would destroy the B83-1 nuclear bomb in the arms stockpile, and the United States would replace it with B61-13, from which it can be speculated how powerful the B61-13 nuclear bomb is.
And such a new nuclear bomb will not be mass-produced in the United States, and the American Plath said that the B61-13 nuclear bomb provides additional flexibility for the US military, but the production of B61-13 will not increase the total number of nuclear bombs in the United States, which is only a few dozen at most.
In other words, the United States can get a more powerful nuclear strike capability and have a more powerful nuclear force without increasing the number of nuclear weapons.
So what impact does the development of this new nuclear bomb by the United States have on our country or Russia?
China's military observer Shao Yonglin said that the B61-13 may combine the advantages of the B61-7 and B61-12, and the yield and strike accuracy will be greatly improved, and it will not only have the ground-drilling capability of the B61-12 nuclear bomb, but also the ability of the B61-11 to hit underground targets.
What needs to be known is that the United States has almost never concealed its intention to develop a new nuclear bomb aimed at China and Russia, and the United States believes that China is now engaged in an all-out arms race with Russia, while the United States is standing still, and they urgently need to develop a new nuclear bomb to change this state of affairs.
Why does the United States think so?
In 2021, Russia's ** Putin personally announced that Russia's army has now basically completed the construction of underground command and control facilities, and in the report, Russia currently has two places that meet the description of the United States, one is the Kosvensky Kármán base in the north of the Ural Mountains, and the other is the Yamantau Mountain base in the south of the Una Mountains, both of which are buried deep under granite about 300 meters thick, which can be regarded as a nuclear ** attack, It is also able to have good survivability.
Looking at China again, over the years, China has been developing intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles, and is also speeding up the construction of huge reinforced silos, and has also built some underground facilities that can accommodate all kinds of materials, in addition to China, Russia, North Korea and Iran have also been working on the construction of underground infrastructure in the past two years.
Whether it is Russia or China, or North Korea and Iran, they are stepping up the construction of silos or underground bunkers, not to break the peace or invade other countries, but to protect their own countries and reduce the nuclear threat from the United States.
But the United States does not think so, the United States just uses these as a reason to develop its own nuclear forces, in fact, the United States itself is the biggest nuclear threat, if you carefully observe the United States' nuclear development over the years, you will find that the United States' nuclear forces have destroyed the world's nuclear power balance.
Over the years, the United States has announced that it will develop or install multiple types of nuclear weapons such as W-93, W76-2, B61-12 and B61-13, and some models have entered the stage of actual combat deployment, so it is obvious that the United States is the one who wants to develop offensive forces.
No one can easily change the fact that the United States wants to develop a new nuclear bomb, but we can strengthen our own anti-nuclear facilities, and we must not give up protecting ourselves just because the United States uses this as an excuse.
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The United States announced that it would develop a new nuclear bomb that was more than 24 times more powerful than the atomic bomb of World War II."