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| Pentagon Report Warns of Looming Nuclear War Danger as Major Powers, Others Expand Arsenals
"...there is an increased potential for regional conflicts involving nuclear-armed adversaries in several parts of the world and the potential for adversary nuclear escalation in crisis or conflict." by Ilya Tsukanov via Sputniknews Headlie Image: © AFP 2021 The release of the report comes amid an ongoing thirty-year, $1.7 trillion modernization of the US nuclear arsenal, which includes funding for things like new micro nukes and a new sea-launched cruise missile. A newly disclosed Pentagon manual on nuclear operations has warned of an "increased potential" for conflict involving the use of nuclear weapons due to growing nuclear stockpiles and the constantly improving sophistication of nuclear delivery systems. The doctrinal document, entitled "Joint Publication 3-72, Joint Nuclear Operations," was submitted in April 2020 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and published in full by the Federation of American Scientists this week on the basis of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. It