NATO Is Training for A Nuclear War with Russia Right Now

1945 ^ | 10-19-2022 | By Stavros Atlamazoglou

[jacknhoo]

With the prospect of a Russian tactical nuclear strike in Ukraine on everyone’s mind, the United States military and several NATO allies are coming together for one of the largest nuclear exercises in Europe.

Steadfast Noon 22 brings together 14 NATO allies and partners with over 60 aircraft, including nuclear-capable fourth- and fifth-generation fighter jets and B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers.

Nuclear Drills for NATO: Steadfast Noon 22 More than 60 aircraft, including F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-35 Lighting II fighter jets, and B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers, will test the transatlantic alliance’s nuclear deterrence. However, the aircraft won’t be using any live nuclear munitions.

Steadfast Noon is to be an annual exercise and isn’t taking place as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine or the repeated Russian threats of a nuclear strike against the Ukrainian forces.

“This exercise helps ensure that the Alliance’s nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective,” NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said in a press release.

NATO insists that the exercise is part of the transatlantic alliance’s routine training program and it is not linked to any world events in any way.

In its press release that announced the start of the exercise, NATO highlighted the transatlantic alliance’s new strategic concept that was adopted by the leader of the NATO countries during the summit in Madrid in June.

NATO highlights that Steadfast Noon 22 is part of the strategic concept that stresses that “the fundamental purpose of NATO’s nuclear capability is to preserve peace, prevent coercion and deter aggression.”

Moreover, the transatlantic alliance states that “as long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance. NATO’s goal is a safer world for all; we seek to create the security environment for a world without nuclear weapons.”

Steadfast Noon 22 is taking place between October 17 till the end of the month. NATO countries rotate host duties for the exercise every year; this year, it is the turn of Belgium to host Steadfast Noon.

The Nuclear Specter Over Europe The failures of the Russian military in Ukraine have brought the specter of nuclear warfare to the European continent. As the country with the largest nuclear arsenal (more than 6,000 nuclear warheads), Russia has repeatedly threatened to deploy some of its nuclear munitions against Ukraine.

Although Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials have publicly set some red lines that could trigger a nuclear strike, such as attacks on Russian territory, for example, they have not delivered on their threats, at least so far.

If a nuclear strike did indeed happen, a highly likely scenario is that the Russian military would launch a tactical nuclear munition somewhere in Ukraine where the Ukrainian forces are the most threatening in order to make it seem that the attack was purely on a military target.

As the war continues to go progressively bad for the Russian forces and as the Ukrainian military continues to liberate large swaths of territory and edges closer to Crimea, which has been annexed by the Russians since 2014, the threat of a Russian nuclear strike will hover on everyone’s mind.

Expert Biography: A 19FortyFive Defense and National Security Columnist, Stavros Atlamazoglou is a seasoned defense journalist specializing in special operations, a Hellenic Army veteran (national service with the 575th Marine Battalion and Army HQ), and a Johns Hopkins University graduate. His work has been featured in Business Insider, Sandboxx, and SOFREP.

[jacknhoo]

Anyone for peace negotiations, instead?

[Vermont Lt]

Because these named training exercises happen overnight, with almost no planning.

[Honorary Serb]

YES!!!!

Then abolish NATO!!!!

[glorgau]

Nuclear war can be trained for, but it really can’t be “won”. WW2’s devastation would be minuscule compared to even a “limited” nuclear war. It might be tens of decades before even the radiation fell to a non-lethal level.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Not only that, they never happen during peacetime. They only happen when the Bear awakes.

[skeeter]

Not much money in peace negotations.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

If any of these government leaders light off a nuke, and I survive, I’ll hunt down the closest one and shoot them.

“This post has been reviewed by the FBI”

5.56mm

[rrrod]

I am...then war crime trials.

[Vendome]

[PGR88]

[Gnome1949]

Training for nuclear war is training for the end of human habitation.

Nobody could “win” a nuclear war.

Even those who could hide in underground shelters could never emerge to a surface environment remotely resembling what we experience now.

The movie, “Doctor Strangelove” addressed this as a farcical look at an all-out nuclear exchange. They talked about millions dying but survivors could live in huge underground mine shafts although American leaders would have to make sure the USA did not fall behind the Russkies in a “mine-shaft gap.”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Si vis pacem, para bellum

[ransomnote]

"With the prospect of a Russian tactical nuclear strike in Ukraine on everyone’s mind,...."

The Deep State MSM is working hard to create the impression that Russia "needs" pro-active bombing, just like Puppet Zelensky said:

Ukraine Frantically Tries to Walk Back Zelensky Call for ‘Preemptive Strikes’ on Russia
	10/07/2022 7:55:14 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 125 replies Breitbart ^ | 10/07/2022 | Frances Martel The presidential press office of Ukraine accused global media outlets of “nuclear hysteria” on Thursday for sharing remarks made by President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he asked the world for “preemptive strikes” on Russia to avoid nuclear war.

Zelensky wasn't able to get the job done but 'anonymous sources' are working to get pro-active strikes on Russia going by claiming, "He started it!".

[sport]

True. And fighting they are! They made a believer out of me. Not about their stanceon Ukraine. I just did not realize that Lying Joe Biden and George Soros had so much support on Free Republic.com. But I was wrong. They do.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If one side trains and prepares for nuclear war, and the other side does not, then the one who appears willing to escalate can dominate the one who is willing to capitulate. Herman Kahn at RAND said in On Thermonuclear War that the way to win a chicken race is to be seen to enter the car conspicuously drunk and throw the steering wheel out the window.

[pepsionice]

In this case, I’d regard it more as a demo...not an exercise (in the true view that most of us participated in the past).

Also, you might want to go back and review the Air Force Europe exercise for 1983, and how this was geared to get a massive reaction out of the Soviets. They had to be ordered at the last minute to abandon a huge portion of this ‘shady’ exercise. It was more to provoke for reaction....than past exercises.

[rrrod]

Right after Russia, China and Iran are abolished! Perfect!

[ansel12]

This is an annual exercise and took place under Trump as well.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My comment was meant to be wry, droll and witty...and utterly obviously such.

I failed. Sorry about that.

[ConservativeMind]

LOL!