[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Can you hear me now, Kim?

[SweetCaroline]

....buh bye Iran!!!!

[doug from upland]

He won't be ronery if he's dead.

[Jeff Head]

Well, with our ICBM's, SLBMs, and the B-2s and B-1s, this was a foregone conclusion.

[john drake]

Any details as to how quickly the various types of lightning strikes could be? Say, like 15-30 minutes max to any one location? If I were a middle eastern (or south asian) Islamofascist, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing U.S. submarines lying dormant in the Indian Ocean or South China Sea could launch several dozen nuclear tipped missiles anywhere in my direction, in a matter of minutes. A nightmare scenario, indeed. How pleasant.

[Don Carlos]

So, whats new? We had global strike capabilities 40 years ago! Re-stating the obvious, in case they weren't paying attention, probably.

[RightWhale]

Sounds like the good old days of the fifties and the ICBM.

[StatenIsland]

You mean our military forces are....[gulp]....capable?!?

[Prost1]

What kind of nonsense is this????

Anyone hear of the Trident Submarine fleet being decommissioned?

I have not!

[Grut]

Back when I was a SAC crewdog, it was almost impossible to get transferred out of the command. What was worse, if you did get a non-SAC assignment, SAC had first refusal on you next time around. We called it "SAC's world-wide striking power."

[shield]

hmmmm

[MARKUSPRIME]

Excellent news. We need to keep our nuclear response razor sharp.

[eastforker]

I think this was intended for Iran!

[puppypusher]

As a former USAF veteran and formerly assigned to SAC, Strategic Air Command it seems to me that the military is just reinventing the wheel. The USAF had a global strike capability years ago and that was in the hands of SAC until it was deactivated in 1992. The only thing different now is certain weapon systems. The ability to strike was already there.

[Paul Ross]

Can you hear me now, Kim?

A strategic deterrent is only as credible as the guy who is supposed to pull the trigger. W has obviously been found wanting in credibility when it comes to the nuclear issue.

Obviously they don't. And have no reason to worry. W's continued kid-glove treatment of Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, not to mention China.

His pell-mell unilateral U.S. nuclear disarmament in the Moscow Treaty...hoping Russia would follow suit, and going ahead despite Moscow later blatantly announcing it would NOT dismantle any SS-18s until 2017 made clear he is subscribing to the distinctly liberal doctrinaire arms control posture.... Known as "Wishful Thinking."

A lame posture which merely evokes open contempt and scorn by the tyrants.

North Korea's missile test in W's face proved it. Iran's brinksmanship with Israel proves it.

They all believe he is either checkmated...or spine-challenged.

[RightWhale]

What is new? Seems like the Polaris system had that capability. Not to mention the B-52s that were constantly flying around the clock, the first jet contrails some of us ever saw.

[Vinnie]

Here is the sentence I find interesting/like.

..wrote that the classified exercise involved the response to a radiological “dirty bomb” attack on Alabama by the fictional country Purple or allied terrorists.