There is still no clear agreement on what mininukes are. However, the possibility that its use will become widespread in the future is raising notable interest on the part of the academic and military community, due to its important repercussions on strategic stability. The Trump administration's proposal - published in the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review - to add to the US nuclear arsenal two new low-yield submarine-launched nuclear warheads (one mounted on cruise missiles, another on Trident-II ballistic weapons), has generated a great stir, as well as exaggerated alarmism among certain sectors of arms control analysis, going so far as to affirm that such weapons lower the nuclear threshold and make nuclear war more probable.
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