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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Peter Huessy of the National Institute for Deterrence re the status of US nuclear weapons in Europe -- the B-61 gravity bombs, some number of which are to be deployed in the UK, for delivery by F-35 war

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Peter Huessy of the National Institute for Deterrence re the status of US nuclear weapons in Europe -- the B-61 gravity bombs, some number of which are to be deployed in the UK, for delivery by F-35 warplanes. More of this later.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/26/us-nuclear-bombs-lackenheath-raf-russia-threat-hiroshima/

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0:30.1

This is John Bachelor, the news that the US is planning to deploy theater weapons, tactical nuclear weapons.

0:37.0

To the United Kingdom and the first time for 15 years, Gordon Chang and I moved to talk to our colleague Peter

0:44.8

He's president of geostrategic analysis. He's a fellow at the National

0:49.3

Institute for Deterrence Studies, in words, our nuke guy.

0:53.0

Peter identifies in this excerpt from our longer conversation what it is that we're

1:00.4

deploying. They're called B61s. They're refurbished, says Peter, old

1:06.3

gravity bombs to be delivered by aircraft, F-35s in this case, but it begins to look as if the US doesn't have enough B61s hasn't

1:16.1

updated well anyway listen to Peter Hughesy well we are what there's a term it's

1:21.8

called service life extension program, Slep.

1:25.0

And what it does it takes warheads that are 10, 20, 30, or 40 years old and

1:30.0

redo them so that it's like you take an old car out of the garage that doesn't

1:35.0

worked and you know for a while and you fix the carburetor and you fix this and

1:38.9

fix that and you go here it can run that's what we've done with most. We're doing with most of our

1:44.5

warheads because we haven't built a new warhead in decades. So these are

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