Posted on 09/03/2018 7:29:57 AM PDT by ZeroToHero
Newly declassified documents have exposed the Pentagon's plans for an all-out nuclear war devised by the US Army to nuke both China and the Soviet Union into complete oblivion. The aim of the nuclear attack was to completely wipe out both country's industrial potential and the bulk of their human populations.
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It may have been impossible for those reasons, but I remember an author who had an idea about that.
Back in the mid-80’s, I remember reading a pulp fiction novel called “Famine”. In it, there started to be crop failures of wheat, corn, vegetables...all the basic stuff. Cattle, pigs and poultry started coming down with diseases that were deadly to humans. Even canned goods started turning up with botulism and other things.
Turns out it was the start of a long-term Soviet project to starve the US into submission. The crops were done by spraying them with a herbicide from medium altitudes, using a company that (as a cover) sold pictures of your fields to farmers (”Your Spread From The Sky” was the company’s name.)
Soviet agents had infiltrated all manner of food-producing industries in the US, and in a matter of a few months, the US was brought to it’s knees because mass populations were starving. The military was too weak to do anything about it.
The last scene in the book had the story’s main ‘hero’ lying on the shore of the Pacific with his girlfriend, too weak to go on. As he looked up, he saw massive numbers of Soviet bombers and transports come in at low altitude over the coast.
The Soviets used to crank out all kinds of propaganda about how the CIA would release Potato Beetles to destroy the crops of the Socialist Countries.
On the left is the SPCP (Steam Plant Control Panel where the throttleman answered bells, responded to casualties, took logs....)
In the center is the RPCP (Reactor Plant Control Panel). The reactor operator sat there and he mostly did not too much on a good day, other than take a set of logs occaisionally.
On the right is the EPCP (electrical plant control panel) where the electrical plant operator could isolate the port or starboard electrical busses, run the diesel or a motor generator set.
All of these actions were supervised by the EOOW (engineering officer of the watch) who sat behind the electrical operator.
I saw one of these setups in the Smithsonian which is why I feel free to talk about it. At the Smithsonian, they had a former bubble head explaining to the people who wondered in and had questions about nuclear submarines.
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Nothing we haven’t seen before.
They’ve asked for it by putting disgusting mayo on their french fries.
LOL! We were entering port in San Juan PR and I was on throttles in the aft engine room. The skipper hated using tugs (ego much) and I nearly lost count of the bells we took in a half an hour. It was almost like a ballet.
i know the dec printer is shopped in, not sure about the tv
So?
Things evolve...
Whats that Space Force agency no rat-faced Enemy Domestic president or Wannabe Fat Cow presidential candidate would ever think of?
I can only think of ONE fat cow that qualifies, but she's not Canadian...
Good afternoon.
“while not considered as a part of the nuclear triad, i am quite sure the army has tactical nuclear capacity for use on the battlefield “
The U.S. Army had a broad array of tactical nuclear weapons. Artillery, mines, missiles and other types of ordinances.
Now, I have no idea. 0bama screwed up everything.
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Operation Chrome Dome was a United States Air Force Cold-War era mission from 1960 to 1968 in which B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes to points on the Soviet Union border.
I briefed B 52 crews on the sino Soviet target weather 60- 62
Blofeld: If we destroy Kansas no one may hear about it for years.
(Diamonds Are Forever, 1971)
"Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye!"
In 1977, I was brought aboard the "Online" side, which had the Philco 2000s, running "425L"--Missile Warning, and "425"--Space Track:
There might even be contingency plans for this one as well...at least certain parts.
Anonymous highly placed sources close to CNN have revealed a secret US plan during the cold war, to completely destroy the Soviet Union and China in the event of a nuclear war, by hurting people and breaking things.
They further revealed that Gen Norman Schwarzkoph may have intentionally divulged this secret plan during a briefing to the media in the 1990's.
This raises serious questions as to whether he should be exhumed from his grave at the US Military Academy at West Point and be denied the honors received recently by that great American hero John McCain who was buried at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. McCain's burial followed weeks of lavish praise by all of his former political opponents who, since his passing, suddenly liked him.
(Diamonds Are Forever, 1971)
At least we got Terre Haute.--
Field Marshal com Kluck, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, 1982.
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