Atomic Weapon Capability

E-mail to Congress:

EIN News says, "Report Calls for Moving to U.S. Nuclear 'Dyad,' Dropping Triad's Bomber Leg. The move would be the ultimate result of arms control and weapons-acquisition trends that undercut the value of a nuclear role for these aircraft, according to a trio of aerospace experts writing for the Air Force Association's Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies. Under such an approach, the nation's nuclear triad would become a "dyad" comprising just submarine- and ground-launched ballistic missiles. (globalsecuritynewswire.org)".

We have avoided atomic warfare for 70 years, because of a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) strategy. This strategy says that any perpetrator who detonates an atomic weapon in the US may be assured of atomic weapon retaliation to the extent that the perpetrating country and its population will be destroyed.

While it has worked in the past, it has done so because of the worldwide belief that US leaders will have the physical ability to do as claimed and also the fortitude to do it. In other words, there are two requirements to continue to make this strategy work.

Pres. Obama has been going around the world making friends, which also leads to a possible perception on the part of evildoers that he will not have the fortitude to carry out the MAD strategy. The presently publicized reduction of atomic weapon capability as the second aspect is likely to encourage evildoers to take the risk.

I realize that there are many members of the House and Senate who have grown up in an era of "let's hug and be comfy", which makes it very difficult for them to realize evildoers can be a serious security threat to the US. It takes a knowledge of history, human nature and some judgment to come to a correct decision. I'm sure that you have it, but you also must believe that voting numbers are against you. This means that you will have to work significantly harder to make your vote count two or three times its mathematical value, as you try to stop the timid and physically unjustifiable reductions of our atomic weapon usability.