Posted on 10/09/2008 5:21:23 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
The US must increase its nuclear arsenal in response to China's growing military might, according to a State Department report.
The International Security and Advisory Board (Isab), which reports to Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, warned that "holding the US homeland hostage to missile attack is important to Chinese military goals".
It claimed that China will have "in excess of 100 nuclear-armed missiles that could strike the United States" by 2015.
By contrast, it said the US had allowed its nuclear stockpile and expertise to "deteriorate and atrophy across the board" for the last two decades.
The ISAB is chaired by Paul Wolfowitz, the former World Bank president who was often referred to as the "major architect" of the war in Iraq while he was deputy defence secretary.
Mr Wolfowitz was appointed by Miss Rice last year. Other hawkish members of the Isab are Robert Joseph, the former undersecretary for arms control and international security affairs, and James Schlesinger, the former defence secretary. Executives from arms companies such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing also sit on the board.
The ISAB was asked to draft a report on how the US could bring its relationship with China "towards greater transparency and mutual confidence".
Hans M Kristensen, a director at the Federation of American Scientists, an anti-nuclear think tank in Washington, said that instead the report "appears to have drawn up a very effective plan for a Cold War with China".
He added: "The authors land on a set of recommendations and observations that strongly resemble a China-version of the Reagan administration's aggressive military posture against the Soviet Union." Mr Kristensen also called on Miss Rice to disown the Isab's conclusions.
The ten-page report, which was leaked onto the internet, seems to justify a decision by the
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bttt
Hey, look at it as a prophetic fullfillment of Joss Whendon’s “Firefly” series. The US and China become “the alliance,” only a little sooner than 500 years in the future.
Obama in his own words as to what he wants to do to our military!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cxL8NcNACBY&feature=related
Dear God I pray that this man doesn't even get CLOSE to being elected!
If so, we might as well start learning how to speak Chinese.
I'm waiting for Walmart to start selling portable bomb shelters...Later we'll find out they are defective, and actually attracted and absorb radiation.
The Chinese have hundreds of years of banking, shop keeping and trading vs. the Rookies who have not encountered commerce in eight generations and are suspicious of anyone who wants to improve his situation. Which of these is our enemy ?
A a small person I lived in Tucson AZ in the 1960’s (ground zero for a SAC B36/B52 wing and a wing of Titan missiles)
The tensions of the Cuban crisis was to the point of that an open air market for fallout shelters popped in town (on Speedway Ave) selling what we would call today ‘plug and play’ shelters.
Today, you can still find the occasional home for sale with an “underground den”.....
Do not underestimate the terror that just a few nuke armed ICBMs can inflict....
If nuclear weapons are deployed to deter an enemy from attacking, doesn’t the US have enough nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles to accomplish this mission?
Our foreign trade policy of “toys for missiles” has worked wonders.
Nuclear is the real advantage we have over the Red Chinese. And as a deterrent, you can never have too much “overkill”.
No matter what the intentions of a potential adversary, I sleep better knowing we can hurt them much more than they can hurt us, even in a nuclear exchange where both sides lose. The Soviets were believers in this theory.
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