© ReutersB-2 Spirit Bomber drops a B61-11 "Bunker Buster"
The B61 has been the principal US airborne nuclear bomb since 1968, when the first version was commissioned. With some of the modifications being canceled over the years and others withdrawn from use, only models 3,4,7,11 and 12 are currently in active service.
"Reaching this next phase of the B61-12 LEP is a major achievement for NNSA and the exceptionally talented scientists and engineers whose work underpins this vital national security mission," NNSA Administrator Lt. Gen. Frank G. Klotz (Ret.) said in a statement. "Currently, the B61 contains the oldest components in the US arsenal. This LEP (life extension program) will add at least an additional 20 years to the life of the system," he added.
The Obama administration has embarked on a plan to try and modernize the US nuclear weapons arsenal, which is expected to cost around $355 billion by 2023. However, critics say that this figure could rise to over $1 trillion in the future.
"These life extension programs directly support President Obama's directive to maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent, while reducing the size of the stockpile," Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz mentioned in the press release. "Once completed, the B61-12 LEP will allow for the retirement of the B83-1—the last megaton-class weapon in America's nuclear arsenal—while supporting the nation's continued commitment to our national security and that of our allies and partners," Moniz added.
The Kremlin has been cautious about the announcement that the US intends to modernize the B61 nuclear bomb. "The experts need to give their opinion about this," said Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin's press secretary.
Meanwhile Senator Viktor Ozerov told RIA that Russia's nuclear scientists would be assessing the US plans and would take steps to tackle the proposed threat if it is deemed necessary. "No doubt, our nuclear weapons specialists will carefully study the level of threat and will take measures to minimize it, if needed," Ozerov said.
However, Rob van Riet, the coordinator for disarmament program at the World Future Council foundation, told Sputnik that the decision is harmful to nuclear security and could lead to the weapons being used by accident, while it also "sends the wrong signal."
"The decision to extend the life span of [or] modernize the system is an unnecessary one that comes at a sizeable price tag and does the opposite of advancing nuclear security and disarmament. These weapons are a remnant of the Cold War," van Riet said.
The decision taken by the NNSA to prolong the life of the B61-12 also comes as the US Air Force announced that it is planning to move ahead with proposals to replace its current intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear cruise missile with new programs.
The Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) will replace the Minutemen III ICBM, the Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapons and the AGM-86B Air Launched Cruise Missile. Its backers say that the program is vital in helping to maintain the US nuclear deterrent.
"This request for proposals is the next step to ensuring the nation's ICBM leg of the nuclear triad remains safe, secure and effective," Major General Scott Jansson, Air Force program executive officer for strategic systems, said in a statement cited by Defense News.
Deterrence or suicide?
Recently evidence has shown there is great reason to destroy all nuclear weapons, and the reason for this has to do New evidence showing that radioactive isotopes can be remotely detonated.
This should be alarming and question the motives behind nuclear weapons programs since this knowledge is now manifestly evident.
Understanding how this works, raises questions surrounding contemporary nuclear events stretching from the Oklahoma bombing to the mysterious explosions of factories in China, to those involving exploding cars, houses, and buildings.
The first piece of evidence substantiating this idea is a patent awarded to Boeing Aerospace for a so-called jet motor powered by micro thermonuclear explosions. US Patent 9,068,562 B1, a method for the detonation of radioactive isotopes via high energy laser.
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In the Boeing motor, a high energy laser fires a micro burst at a radioactive isotope causing a fusion reaction (* A thermonuclear explosion) where upon, the products (Hydrogen and Helium are the exhaust byproducts). At the same time the inside walls of the thrust chamber, which are coated with Uranium 238, react with the impacting high energy neutrons produced by the thermonuclear explosion. These neutrons react with the Uranium 238 coating to create intense heat. Heat expands air and at the same time it's being compressed by the thermonuclear explosions, which forces the air under great pressure out exit of the exhaust nozzle producing thrust. These are the fundamental propulsion forces to this design.
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What we here is an example of a radioactive isotope being put into a critical mass state with the burst of a high energy laser. This laser beam is charged with neutron particles, and this focused beam is what caused the radioactive isotope to go critical. It's more complex naturally, but this is the gist of how it works.
This proves that a subcritical mass of isotope can be detonated remotely with a focused light beam charged with neutrons. In other words, a particle beam.
In the case of 9/11, we now can speculate with a plausible explanation for melting beams. Thus it was not with thermite compounds as some have thought, but rather with a depleted isotopes and neutron bombardment which
gives us a plausible explanation for structural failure.
Modern nuclear weapons work with less than critical masses of plutonium because of a focused charge of neutron particles, and which causes the material to change into other radioactive isotopes which are then at critical mass, all in an instant mind you, and then: Kaboom!
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"A neutron reflector is any material that reflects neutrons. This refers to elastic scattering rather than to a specular reflection. The material may be graphite, beryllium, steel, tungsten carbide, or other materials. A neutron reflector can make an otherwise subcritical mass of fissile material critical, or increase the amount of nuclear fission that a critical or supercritical mass will undergo. Such an effect was exhibited twice in accidents involving the Demon Core, a subcritical plutonium pit that went critical in two separate fatal incidents when the pit's surface was momentarily surrounded by too much neutron reflective material."
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Now, finally, what I deduce from all this mumbo jumbo nukehead stuff is that a particle beam of neutrons can make almost any enriched isotope transform into a critical mass and detonate. Think about it.