Nuclear Expert Calls for U.S. to Bolster Its ‘Tactical’ Nuke Capabilities

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The United States should seek to improve ts arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons to hedge against actors whornmight seek to offset this country’s conventional superiority, a former U.S. senior defense official said this week. “Irnthink that we have to address qualitative inferiority that the United States has in what we used to call tacticalrnnuclear weapons,” Clark Murdock, currently Senior Adviser of the International Security Program at the Center forrnStrategic and International Studies, said during an event in Washington. “It’s never a term I’m very fond of, and Irnwasn’t fond of it in the Cold War either, because any use of a nuclear weapon’s going to have strategicrnimplications.”