Dr. Pry uses as a “teaching moment” the deployment of the W-88 nuclear warhead to U.S. ballistic missile submarines, the press describing the W-88 as a “new” and “modernized” warhead, when in fact it is a “recycled” warhead that was so old, with so many technical problems, that Washington is really just celebrating the W-88’s rescue from the junkyard. Dr. Pry also uses as a “teaching moment” efforts by the press and Washington policymakers to “bury their heads in the sand” to the nuclear threat from China represented by recent discovery of 145 new ICBM silos being built by China in the desert. Washington is so brainwashed by arms control theory about the “nuclear balance” that they ignore simple strategic arithmetic proving China already has, or soon will have, a nuclear first strike capability when it deploys just 40 DF-41 ICBMs.
