Posted on 07/01/2007 4:20:02 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Assuming preparedness for any contingency, I’d say yes.
Is water wet? Do these idiots really think that an aircraft carrier with nuclear-capable aircraft doesn’t carry nuclear weapons? What happened to journalism in the last 30 years? Seems the only intelligent people in the media are the conservative commentators and editorialists (Charles Krauthammer, Ann Coulter, Rush & David Limbaugh, William F. Buckley, Jr., Pat Buchanan, Michelle Malkin, etc..) Most of these so-called “reporters” couldn’t think their way out of a wet paper bag!
I’d say it is very unlikely that the Nimitz is carrying nuclear weapons.
And then there’s the fact that if officers denied the presence of nuclear weapons, people would assume they were lying. And by not denying or confirming, people still assume that the weapons are on board.
Which only goes to prove that people will believe the worst about the U.S. just because they are predisposed to do so. If an inspection team were shown that there were no nuclear weapons on board, everybody who already believed the weapons on board would assume that the team had been “bought” or that we’d managed to hide the weapons. Or, if they somehow managed to take over the ship and do a thorough inspection themselves, they’d assume that we’d scuttled the weapons. And if they got a submarine and looked for the weapons on the ocean floor, when they found no weapons, they’d assume that we’d had a submarine handy to secretly catch and remove the weapons.
If we, the U.S., were as evil and resourceful as the world imagines we are, we’d be called the Holy American Empire, and anybody who voiced any such opinion that was contrary to public policy would quietly disappear. Oh darn...
“I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons”
Who cares? No way they gonna deploy it. We drop “ethnicaly sensitive” meal packets on our enemies these days. Sux.
“We do not routinely deploy nuclear weapons on any of our ships, attack submarines or aircraft,”
However, SSBNs aren’t attack subs.
Why T.H. not? Good Grief they are useless to us sitting in magazines on shore. We carried them for 50 years safely available and ready to go onboard carriers and subs. Our civilian leadership in Washington and that in the Pentagon needs relieved of duty and replaced with ones who still get it.
As a carrier sailor I will say this, “Carriers meet Ammo Ships going on deployment and coming from deployment”..Think about it!
The USS Nimitz doesn’t have nuclear weapons aboard ... it’s not allowed .. ask the Weapons Officers - they’ll tell you.
They don't any more as a rule. It's a different military ran by kinder gentler Stooge CIC's. If any carrier has nukes the crew {all of them down to the mess cook} knows it. I won't go into specifics but you know it. The magazines as I understand it no longer have USMC's finest guarding them either. MARDET as security is gone from carriers. I've heard from several reliable Freeper sources about this.
Looks like some Indian journalist had a deadline and needed a story. India has nuclear weapons and 10 nuclear power plants, and they’re building several more. Nimitz should be a non-issue to the Indians.
“USMC’s finest guarding them ‘
I remember during the Cuban missile crisis, we had Marine guards at the entrance to and patrolling the halls of our communication station. One of them got busted for going to the helicopter pad across the street at night and firing his piece. After numerous bouts of beer drinking at the Norfolk Marine Barracks, it occurred to me the helipad shooter was not that unusual.
You say that like nuclear weapons are a bad thing...
I hope you are pulling my leg, but I fear that you are not. That’s what happens when a draft dodger (Bill Clinton) along with his co-president (Hillary Red-ham Clinton) assume control of the national defense. We need another president like Ronald Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Dwight Eisenhower, James Monroe or George Washington.
They also used to man the gates at NOB NORVA. A lot has changed. Yea I can imagine one tanked up doing that. But to tell the truth tanked up squadron officers were the hardest to deal with. On deployments I was a T.A.D. Boat Snipe on a PB. One officer tried to bring a pig back with him in Genoa {sp}
Heh! The operative phrase. I doubt that this is a "routine" cruise...
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