[Disestablishmentarian]

Do you find it odd, at the very least, that while there are direct threats of nuclear attacks by the leader of Russia, here in the US it is pretty much business as usual? I mean by that there is nothing during this hour like the fears in America I remember as a 20-year-old back during the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.

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Distinct possibility that nuclear war would not be allowed. I think people sense this.

Back in the '60s, nuclear war seemed almost inevitable. After all ... every weapon system eventually gets used, right?

But no one thinks this anymore.

The U.S. has had numerous examples where control of our silos was temporarily assumed by others. I think Cap Weinberger talked about this. Doubtless other nuclear powers have also experienced this.

Norks' nuke test was a dud. Then their mountain collapsed. Secret weapons of the U.S.? (or something else?)

Suitcase nukes from collapsed USSR supposedly in the wild. Terrorists with big money, not to mention cartels and some very large criminal organizations. But NOTHING happens.

WHY?

Great awakening involves throwing off the thought suppression about off-limit topics such as this.

[little jeremiah]

Suitcase nukes from collapsed USSR supposedly in the wild.

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I’ve seen this discussed a lot some time ago; people who seemed to know what they were talking about said that such suitcase nukes need regular maintenance of some kind to work, by people who know what they’re doing.

[numberonepal]

I tell people all the time there has never been a successful armed or otherwise MIRV re-entry. There are hundreds of stories about tests that went sideways with no explanation.