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On Twitter, Speculation That Low-Yield Nuke is Secret Nuclear Weapon Trump Cites in Woodward Book

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

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On Twitter, Speculation That Low-Yield Nuke is Secret Nuclear Weapon Trump Cites in Woodward Book

The NNSA's new mission logo for the W76-2 low-yield, submarine-launched, ballistic-missile warhead. Credit: NNSA

Nuke watchers debated Wednesday whether the secret nuclear weapon discussed in Bob Woodward’s new book about President Donald Trump is the W76-2 low-yield warhead. According to a leaked passage from the Watergate journalist’s soon-to-be-published book, Rage, Trump told Woodward in an interview, sometime between December and July, that “I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before.” The Washington Post, where Woodward is an associate editor, obtained an advance copy of the…

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