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The really fun part here is that the US is rapidly burning through their existing stockpiles of ammunition, and they lack the industrial capacity to replenish it at the rate it's being used now. It seems that the US leadership is not aware of the problem.
I fear that this will result in a lower threshold for the US to use ABC weapons.
ABC?
NBC. Nuclear, Biological, Chemical. They probably meant "atomic", but the military doesn't use that term anymore.
The US has no biological or chemical weapons (aside from irritants like pepper spray or mace). They do have protective equipment and procedures for operating in an NBC environment.
As for nuclear, the entire world is pretty sure that nuclear leads directly to mutually assured destruction, so it's not really a viable threat anymore.