Comment: Warfare is changing and our leadership is doing preparations.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2024/09/air-force-braces-new-nuclear-war-scenarios/399693/
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Patrick Tucker, Science Editor, Defense One, 19 Sep 2024
The Air Force is planning a tabletop exercise to gauge U.S. readiness to react to a wide spectrum of nuclear-related scenarios, part of a larger effort to prepare for them, a service leader said on Wednesday.
“What if, God forbid, there was a low-yield [nuclear weapon] use in Europe tomorrow?” Lt. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara, deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration, said at the Air & Space Forces Association conference outside Washington, D.C. “Or what if there was a demonstration of nuclear use, or a nuclear test? What if we had to adapt the INDOPACOM regional fight because a nuclear power had a red line [that meant] we couldn't fly in certain areas?
“These are the kind of things that our warfighters need to understand from the beginning. It doesn't need to be just at the presidential level with no other discussion,” Gebara said.
A nuclear bomb explodes in the Baker Day Test at Bikini Island on
July 25, 1946. GETTY