“Our strategic triad of bombers, missiles, and submarines is designed to deter nuclear war. traid as basically the same, and they are not,” he continued. “Most Americans think of the Russian triad and the U.S. When I served in the CIA, we knew that the Russian strategic posture is very different from ours,” Pry said. Pry said he thinks “the Intelligence Community is smart enough to know that.
Russia’s “ICBM command and control arrangement is such that we can’t see those forces mobilizing because they are on a condition the Russians call ‘constant combat readiness.’ All the time, they’re ready to launch … Twenty-four/seven, 365 days a year, Vladimir Putin could push a button and launch most of his nuclear weapons in just a few minutes without any advanced preparation.” would know an attack was about to happen. strategic nuclear forces at their lowest readiness level, DEFCON 5, which potentially makes them much more vulnerable to the surprise nuclear attack,” Pry said. “And this has been used to justify keeping U.S. “I think the administration and the Intelligence Community are either lying or have misconstrued the strategic situation,” Pry said, referring to dismissals of Russia’s heightened nuclear readiness level “as basically bluster or bluffing. supplying arms to Ukraine-is “extremely alarming” and represents a “classical situation where we would have been concerned about the possibility of nuclear war,” Pry said. The involvement of three nuclear superpowers in the war in Ukraine-with China supporting Russia and the U.S. Deptula, dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, participate in a livestreamed Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum on April 21. should raise its readiness level in response to Russia’s doing so and argued that such a move could even spell the end of the war in Ukraine.
Pry was skeptical that Putin’s subordinates would balk at a nuclear strike. has positioned itself to deter a nuclear war, Russia has prepared to wage a surprise attack. “We did not deem the test to be a threat to the United States or its allies,” Kirby said.ĭuring the Mitchell event, however, Pry questioned whether Russia’s President Vladimir Putin may have become emboldened by the direction of the U.S.’s nuclear posture over the past 30 years: Whereas the U.S. Kirby said April 20 that the test was “routine and not a surprise,” confirming that Russia had “properly notified the United States under its New START treaty obligations.” The discussion took place just one day after Russia’s military said it tested its new nuclear-capable Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which, according to The Associated Press, Putin said would give the West pause. Deptula, dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, during a livestreamed Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum on April 21.
Nuclear Strategy Forum, spoke to retired Lt. Peter Pry, who is also director of Congress’ U.S. The whole point of Russia’s war in Ukraine could be to drag the West into World War 3, said the executive director of Congress’ Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
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