https://totalwonkerr.net/2007/06/29/j-harvey-naf/ Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:23:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://totalwonkerr.net/2007/06/29/j-harvey-naf/#comment-563 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:23:01 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/j-harvey-naf/#comment-563 Don’t forget that the SIOP is now history. The US nuclear war plan is OPLAN8044 and I think that this change happened ‘cause of the reforms to the strategic war planning system since the ‘90s, things like “adaptive planning” and the “Living SIOP” that kind of changed the way the US targets its nuclear warheads. I remember seeing a STRATCOM doc or testimony to the effect that the post cold war world is a “target rich” environment rather than a weapons rich environment. With the old SIOP philosophy target requirements set the number of warheads requirement but perhaps because of these strategic reforms we see a relative de-coupling between targets and numbers…just thinkin’ out loud.

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