Posted on 12/30/2007 3:59:57 AM PST by vertolet
It has largely gone unnoticed that this year, with increasing fears of proliferation, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock up to five minutes to midnight, closer to nuclear catastrophe than at almost any time since the phoney war of 1983.
What this panty-waist of an article author dares not mention is that the real nuclear threat is neither Russia nor the Americans, but the nuclear proliferation within the realm of Islamofascism.
Thanks for this article.
Does anyone on FR remember the incident of the “Lebanon caves” in 1982?
There was talk at that time of Russian subs off the coast of Lebanon, with the intent of setting things up for an incursion into the Middle-east. IIRC, they were discovered by the Israelis and the planned operation was aborted. There were those at that time who claimed that the story was spiked here in the US.
I can’t say for certain re: the veracity of the claims.
Trying to represent Republicans as DANGEROUS. Better to vote for someone the left likes.
What link or gospel band are you referring to?
(not to pick nits, but I must offer a small correction....in a bluegrass band they would be referred to as a fiddle player, not violin)
:^)
Good point about it being called a fiddle player in bluegrass music. I was referring to the video links in kjam22’s tagline.
It's much easier simply to read the New York Times. They can be counted on to announce any US military plans well before the event.
wasn’t there an incident in 1993 or 1994 where Russia thought we had launched a missile and Yeltsin was at the point of having to decide to launch ....I believe the missile turned out to be the launch of a weather satellite from Norway. I’m sure someone on here knows more detail.
This writer’s pro-Soviet inclinations are sprinkled throughout this piece. It is crap, with snippets of interesting information. It seems to me, between Charlie’s War and a host of re-examinations of the victory in the cold war that have been in print lately, that the CIA and State Dept. losers who have been undermining Bush’s presidency are trying to rewrite the Cold War so that they can get their way in the war on terror and take the gloss off of the Republican record of protecting this nation.
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“Candlelight Kumbaya vigils for Peace would have only earned their contempt.”
Just as they do now. Ron Paul are you listening?
They also turned “Gorby” and his materialistic wife Raisa into a new Royal Family.
You’re right.
Kennedy agreed to remove all missiles set in Turkey on the border of the Soviet Union in exchange for Khrushchev removing all missiles in Cuba.
Red Star Rogue, by Keneth Sewell and Clint Richmond tells a lot of the story. A good read.
Isn't DefCon 5 the designation for the final warning of an imminent attack? And DefCon 1 is the lowest level?
bttt
**There were two “Glomar” ships involved in Operation Jennifer: Explorer and Challenger. **
Maybe that is why I called it the Glomar Challenger. I knew the name stuck in my head from somewhere.
It was darn close. Soviet Union was not bluffing when they alerted their Airborne Division in the Crimea and put the Black Sea Fleet to combat movement when the Egyptian 3rd Army was cut off as Ariel Sharon's Armored Brigades crossed the Suez.
good read thanks
Note: this topic is from 12/30/2007. Thanks vertolet.
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