I'm John Bachelor with Gregory Copley of Defense and Foreign Affairs, also the author of the new book about

a parliamentary intrigues around constitutional monarchy. We will address that soon enough, but right

now we're dealing with a headline that was brandished at the front page of the Financial Times

in these last hours. All Europe saw this. U.S. in talks to expand nuclear-capable deployments in Europe is the bold headline.

Subhead, Washington has signaled openness to additional countries hosting nuclear-capable bombers.

The DOD term, who knew they had one, for what a nuclear-capable bomber is, is DCA, all caps, an acronym,

standing for dual-capable aircraft, able to deliver nuclear strikes with a gravity bomb.

My last accounting of this was there were about 200 gravity bombs, nuclear weapons, and they were

to be deployed or have been deployed or might be deployed in various parts of Europe.

I remember England perhaps hosting some of them.

Those gravity bombs would attach to these DCA dual-capable aircraft, and that is to be distributed to countries that are not now

on the list of having nukes on board. But Gregory, the article also goes on to say this might be

an offset for the intention of the Trump administration to withdraw troops from Germany and other parts of Europe.

The number 5,000 is used in Germany.

Nuclear weapons, do they make up for a military that is extremely capable and a lot of specialists

in Europe?

Those are not combat soldiers necessarily.

They're dealing with the projection of power into Eurasia.

So what does a nuclear weapon do that a division can't do?

Well, it's similar to the question that Stalin asked of the Pope,

how many divisions does he have because he saw warfare in strictly material terms.

And you might ask, well, what good is a nuclear weapon do?

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