Pentagon
Nine Years To Re-Attach A Nuke To A Tomahawk? Call In DOGE And Elon
By John Mills (Col, USA, Ret)
May 10, 2025
The Defense Deep State is undermining President Trump's guidance to build regional deterrence. They've drug their feet on re-nuking Tomahawks carried by Submarines, Destroyers, and Cruisers.
President Trump made it clear in his first term - the U.S. will re-add the W-80 Nuclear Warhead to the old but reliable Tomahawk Cruise Missile. Congress directed this at the end of the first term, the Biden Committee slow rolled the plan, and now that President Trump is back for his second term, the Navy rolls out their plan for Initial Operational Capability (IOC).
The answer is: 2034
This is more intentional foot dragging by the Deep State Industrial Complex.
Re-nuclearizing Tomahawk should be one of the simplest and fastest ways to add regional nuclear deterrence as a message to China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and even Venezuela and South Africa.
It will take nine years? This is a joke.
Here are some of the Deep State canards of why it will take nine years:
https://armedforces.press/nine-years-to-re-attach-a-nuke-to-a-tomahawk-call-in-doge-and-elon/
