Secretary Mattis describes low yield nuclear weapon strategy

South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson asks Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on defense strategy and Nuclear Posture Review about why the United States needs low yield nuclear weapons in its arsenal with the military already has a you low yield nuclear gravity bomb. Mattis says it would not lower the threshold at all, but makes clear the deterrent if Russians chose to carry out some of their doctrine promoted employ a low yield nuclear weapon in a conventional fight, that a sea-launched cruise missile engages an ongoing issue with Russian violations of the INF so the idea was to keep negotiators negotiating from a position of strength.