Posted on 09/18/2020 2:36:13 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Patton was correct.
Basic Communist propaganda.
Don't fight, give up. We have already won. Better red than dead.
All the same message.
The intent is to demoralize and encourage capitulation. This was the underlying hidden message from the novel "On the Beach" - futility and inevitability; it dawned on me when I watched the movie a second time.
From Wikipedia:
"The novel does not realistically describe the effects of a global nuclear war, which were poorly understood at the time. Notably, the novel does not portray any form of nuclear winter. In the survival manual Nuclear War Survival Skills, Cresson Kearney describes the novel as "pseudoscientific" and "demoralising", arguing that it and similar works perpetuate the myth that any large-scale nuclear war would inevitably wipe out all human life. This myth, argues Kearney, is dangerous as it discourages people from taking precautionary measures that could save lives in the event of a nuclear attack, in the mistaken belief that any precaution is futile."
EMP attack danger overstated?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/07/emp_attack_danger_overstated.html
The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 1)
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1549/1
Fears North Korea is planning a ‘space nuke’ to knock out America’s power with an an electromagnetic pulse slammed as ‘silly’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4471120/A-North-Korean-space-nuke-WOULDN-T-lay-waste-America.html
Holy cow. That is word salad.
We’ll meet again,
don’t know where,
don’t know when...
“... hypersonic missiles of very high speed...”
Yeah, those ones. Maybe they even travel at a high rate of speed. FFS!!
Mostly crap is that article.
We will not go nuclear unless hit with nukes. You could take out every missile we have that is land based and every nuclear capable aircraft we have and our submarines with literally thousands of nuclear warheads will destroy the enemy.
We are not on a hair trigger of use it or lose it. Those subs are the ultimate weapon of destruction to an enemy that attacks us first.
[Reformatted]
NBC/ABC Warfare Survival Skills Links
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/529562/posts
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare - Survival Skills, Pt. II
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/537242/posts
True.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki anti-nuclear propaganda debunked by the hard facts
Effective countermeasures against conventional, chemical and nuclear war and terrorist threats
http://glasstone.blogspot.com/2009/11/groupthink-and-proliferation-why.html
Free online book - Nuclear War Survival Skills
Free online book Nuclear War Survival Skills Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition &, Hebrew KF Nuclear War Survival Skills Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition Cresson H. Kearny
With Foreword by Dr. Edward Teller
http://www.oism.org/nwss/
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
NUKEMAP is a Google Maps mash-up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
How’s our Rods From God program doing?
Nuclear war is survivable for most people by far. Rebuilding and full recovery would probably happen far more quickly than most people realize, agriculture included.
The
Effects
of
Nuclear
Weapons
Compiled and edited by
Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan
Third Edition
Prepared and published by the
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
and the
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
1977
https://www.dtra.mil/Portals/61/Documents/NTPR/4-Rad_Exp_Rpts/36_The_Effects_of_Nuclear_Weapons.pdf
“Those subs are the ultimate weapon of destruction to an enemy that attacks us first.”
100% correct. Unfortunately for China and Russia, their boomers won’t guarantee them a response. The most important mission for US Navy SSN’s is to constantly track every enemy boomers that puts to sea, and follow them throughout their patrol and if need be, be in position to sink them if they ever hear them making preparations to launch their missiles.
Know nothing “expert”in my opinion. As a life long military analyst I can honestly say, in my unofficial personal opinion, that we are farther from nuclear war between major powers than at any time since the end of the second world war— reason, since the end of the Cold War, war has grown to be much more about “soft power”, because it is a more effective counter to our strengths (which have been global projection of military power and decisive military action). If major powers can accomplish their strategic objectives without firing a shot during the so called “competition phase” of conflict, through economic, cyber, or media/disinfo/psy-ops campaigns then they will. Both the Chinese and Russians have already shown they are adept at doing just this. Likewise, for both, if they MUST use force, then they will use it so briefly that we don’t have time to react, deploy, or take decisive action, all the while denying their own responsibility, launching heavy disinformation campaigns, and working media and even our allies, then disengaging rapidly to move back to competition phase. Not to say that this is true for lessor powers— there is probably more risk of weak actors to acquire and use nuclear weapons; however, they have much more limited capabilities than major powers.
Roman_War_Criminal, this might be why the article was written (link below). We’ll probably see more articles warning against the Trump Administration’s much needed buildup and trying to frighten Americans into begging for another bad treaty.
‘Sci-Fi Awesome’—A U.S. Army Howitzer Just Shot Down A Cruise Missile
forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/09/06/sci-fi-awesome-a-us-army-howitzer-just-shot-down-a-cruise-missile/
Crap. Here’s the link.
‘Sci-Fi Awesome’—A U.S. Army Howitzer Just Shot Down A Cruise Missile
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/09/06/sci-fi-awesome-a-us-army-howitzer-just-shot-down-a-cruise-missile/
“I don’t see a nuclear war with either Biden or Kam Ho in the WH“
Disagree, Democrats have started every major war we have been in.
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