Posted on 09/29/2020 8:42:36 AM PDT by rickmichaels
The Trump administration has asked the military how quickly it would be able to pull nuclear weapons out of storage and load them onto bombers and submarines should an arms control treaty with Russian be allowed to expire, a report suggests.
Made to the US strategic Command in Nebraska, the request is said to be part of a strategy to pressure Moscow into renegotiating the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) before the US presidential election, three sources told Politico.
The Trump administration reportedly believes that making the request outlines how serious they are about letting the agreement lapse should Russia fail to meet their demands.
The sources said Trump’s team is leery that Moscow is attempting to prolong the talks beyond the November vote in the hope that Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins the election. They believe that Biden's proposals for New START renewal may be deemed more favorable by Russia.
‘It’s a clear signal that the costs for not negotiating before the election are going to go up,’ one of the sources, speaking on the grounds of anonymity, told Politico.
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So the President is asking what preparedness is the military and this is news!!!
More Fake Russia/Russia news!
Wow, now that is a sure sign that Trump is in collusion with Putin. A puppet no less. /s
There will be ultra fake news, and fake polls from the Antichrist media from now on.
So the President is asking what preparedness is the military and this is news!!!
But, but, but...
don’t some Demonrats still say that PDJT is Putun’s stooge? This CANNOT be true! It must be FAKE NEWS!
</sarc>
Lol. Totally Ghey Fake News.
Runs around with Hair on Fire, and falls down.
Clearly this is election interfering from the Brits.
Launch an investigation...
Russian Collusion!
Could be a plant story by the Trump administration. Trump isn’t fooled by Putin/Russian scum.
“So the President is asking what preparedness is the military and this is news!!!”
Trolling the Russians?
“We begin bombing in five minutes.”
From my experience in SAC back during the Cold War circa 1975 we had numerous Operational Readiness Inspections testing out just such a scenario.
From the Time the Alert Klaxons sound and the entire base is on alert it will take at least 8 hours to break the weapons out of the igloos and load them on the individual bombers.But that was when we Had SAC a Unit that specialized in nuclear warfare preparations and attack.
This Global Strike command” Replacement of SAC” is not of the same quality and there personnel are not trained to meet the exceptionalism of SAC’s personnel.
I recently saw a video on youtube regarding a recent Alert and launch of the B-52 wing out of the 2nd Bomg Wing at Barksdale AFB,Louisianna.
That was the slowest alert and Launch of a wing that I have ever had the displeasure to see.
If that base was ever under an actual nuclear attack the entire wing of bombers would have been destroyed on the ground.
President Trump needs to return the use of Nuclear weapons to a specialized wing that has that job as there only Job. President Trump Reactivate SAC and deactivate the Global Strike Command.
Fake Breaking News
If I remember during the days of SAC ground alerts, the weapons were already preloaded onto planes. By the 1980’s, you can see B-52G’s and H’s with AGM-86B cruise missiles pre-loaded on the wing pylons on ground alert.
Story doesnt pass the sniff test.
“ and load them onto bombers and submarines”
That would be RE-loaded...
It’s what you call a bargaining chip.
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