Posted on 04/08/2010 8:57:25 AM PDT by HD1200
Almost nothing is known publicly about Russia's tactical nuclear weapons storage sites. The exact numbers and types of tactical nuclear weapons also are secret. Kristensen puts the number of deployed Russian weapons at 2,050, with an additional 5,390 in deep storage. Deployed U.S. weapons are said to number "less than 500.'' "Russia enjoys a sizable numerical advantage,'' the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, a blue-ribbon panel headed by former Defense Secretary William Perry, reported this spring. Russia "stores thousands of these weapons in apparent support of possible military operations west of the Urals,'' the report said. Whatever the number, strategists are coming to consider these weapons as an increasingly destabilizing factor in Europe.
Ultimately, of course, there is concern about miscalculation in an escalating confrontation over, say, Georgia. Many conflicts start unintentionally, and the tactical nuclear weapons are close at hand for saber-rattling purposes.
A more immediate problem looms, however. As Russia and the United States reduce their strategic nuclear weapons, the relative clout of tactical nukes rises. The existing imbalance in tactical nukes "will become more apparent" and U.S. allies will be "less assured,'' the commission said.
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Chance of the Senate ratifying this treaty slim to none.
Liberals eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Uhbama is stylin, donchaknow.
Haven't heard ANY words about VERIFICATION regarding the few long range nuke reductions, anyway. Have you?
What are the verification remedies in this STARTII treaty that boobhead and his silly hippie advisors have (or have failed to) write into this treat?
Is Putin laughing yet?
Obama, why are’t you insisting Russia reduce it’s Tactical Nuclear bombs?
“I’m a complete idiot”, responded Obama.
Obama is the enemy within and everyday it becomes more and more obvious.
I expect Harry Reid to pull some more shenanigans, so who knows?
Memo to messiah:
Cold War ended 20 years ago.
“You can’t trust the Russians.” - Jeanne Kirkpatrick at the 1984 RNC convention. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Obama’s goal is to weaken and destroy this country many different ways. His actions make sense as soon as you understand this, and stop trying to figure out how he can possibly believe what he is doing will be good for the US.
¡ Appeasement Is for Losers !
Tactical nukes are all larger than Hiroshima bombs.
For all practical purposes, number counting will be meaningless if even 500 of the things are ever used.
But nothing actually gets reduced...The "reduction" is put into storage...but can be retrieved...
That is right. Those “tactical” nukes include supersonic anti-ship and air to surface missiles on the Backfire TU-22, which doesn’t count as a “strategic” bomber, and the Russians have 250 of them, each capable of carrying several. This aircraft, with refueling probes installed (simple task) can reach the US and without them could cover most of the rest of the west from within the borders of Russia.
“Tactical” nukes for the Russians also include a “dual use” capability for the SA-5 and SA-10 SAMS to carry a “tactical” nuke for use as an ABM, and was documented by William Lee as an ABM treaty violation.
Ironic the Russians don’t want us to have missile defense they already have, with a strategic nuclear treaty that doesn’t apply to them.
They are playing chess and we are playing checkers, and Obama doesn’t know either game.
Could it be this?
The First Time I Heard Of Barack
By Tom Fife 11-20-8
During the period of roughly February 1992 to mid 1994, I was making frequent trips to Moscow, Russia, in the process of starting a software development joint-venture company with some people from the Russian scientific community. One of the men in charge on the Russian side was named V. M.; he had a wife named T.M.
V. was a level-headed scientist while his wife was rather deeply committed to the losing Communist cause - a cause she obviously was not abandoning.
One evening, during a trip early in 1992, the American half of our venture were invited to V. & T.’s Moscow flat as we were about to return to the States. The party went well and we had the normal dinner discussions.
As the evening wore on, T. developed a decidedly rough anti-American edge - one her husband tried to quietly rein in.
The bottom line of the tirade she started against the United States went something like this:
“You Americans always like to think that you have the perfect government and your people are always so perfect. Well then, why haven’t you had a woman president by now? You had a chance to vote for a woman vice- president and you didn’t do it.”
The general response went something along the lines that you don’t vote for someone just because of their sex. Besides, you don’t vote for vice-president, but the president and vice-president as a ticket.”Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president very soon.”
The consensus we expressed was that we didn’t think there was anything innately barring that. The right person at the right time and sure, America would try to vote for the right person, be he or she black or not.
“What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he will be a Communist?”
The out-of-the-blue remark was met by our stares. She continued, “Well, you will; and he will be a Communist.”
It was then that the husband unsuccessfully tried to change the subject; but she was on a roll and would have nothing of it. One of us asked, “It sounds like you know something we don’t know.”
“Yes, it is true. This is not some idle talk. He is already born and he is educated and being groomed to be president right now. You will be impressed to know that he has gone to the best schools of Presidents. He is what you call “Ivy League”. You don’t believe me, but he is real and I even know his name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and American and his father is black from Africa. That’s right, a chocolate baby! And he’s going to be your President.”
She became more and more smug as she presented her stream of detailed knowledge and predictions so matter-of-factly - as though all were foregone conclusions. “It’s all been thought out. His father is not an American black so he won’t have that social slave stigma. He is intelligent and he is half white and has been raised from the cradle to be an atheist and a Communist. He’s gone to the finest schools. He is being guided every step of the way and he will be irresistible to America.”
We sat there not knowing what to say. She was obviously very happy that the Communists were doing this and that it would somehow be a thumbing of their collective noses at America: they would give us a black president and he’d be a Communist to boot. She made it quite obvious that she thought that this was going to breathe new life into world Communism. From this and other conversations with her, she always asserted that Communism was far from dead.
She was full of little details about him that she was eager to relate. I thought that maybe she was trying to show off that this truly was a real person and not just hot air.
She rattled off a complete litany. He was from Hawaii. He went to school in California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the legislature. “Have no doubt: he is one of us, a Soviet.”
At one point, she related some sort of San Francisco connection, but I didn’t understand what the point was and don’t recall much about that. I was just left with the notion that she considered the city to be some sort of a center for their activity here.
Since I had dabbled in languages, I knew a smattering of Arabic. I made a comment: “If I remember correctly, ‘Barack’ comes from the Arabic word for ‘Blessing.’ That seems to be an odd name for an American.” She replied quickly, “Yes. It is ‘African’”, she insisted, “and he will be a blessing for world Communism. We will regain our strength and become the number one power in the world.”
She continued with something to the effect that America was at the same time the great hope and the great obstacle for Communism. America would have to be converted to Communism and Barack was going to pave the way.
So, what does this conversation from 1992 prove?
Well, it’s definitely anecdotal. It doesn’t prove that Obama has had Soviet Communist training nor that he was groomed to be the first black American president, but it does show one thing that I think is very important. It shows that Soviet Russian Communists knew of Barack from a very early date. It also shows that they truly believed among themselves that he was raised and groomed Communist to pave the way for their future.
This report on Barack came personally to me from one of them long before America knew he existed.
Although I had never before heard of him, at the time of this conversation Obama was 30+ years old and was obviously tested enough that he was their anticipated rising star.
Tom Fife
Or attached to a UAV to turn it into a nuclear cruise missile that can be transported in any truck and launched from any straight stretch of road.
This is very simple, actually - this communist bastard is intentionally weakenign us in any way he can - financially , militarily, you name it. We’re now in the active phase of Gramsci’s destabilization - a plan repeated almost word-for-word by Yuri Bezhmenov years ago. A plan mirroed perfectly in Alinsky’s praxis.
Remember folks: those behind 0bama would rather rule in hell than to leave us to live in peace and prosperity. To that end, America must be laid waste in order to usher in the utopian’s sick fantasy of power and control of mankind. They are monsters, all of them.
Russia will not have to worry about our tactical nukes. Obama plans to retire all sea-based nuclear Tomahawk missiles. Besides large warheads they can also carry warheads of less than 100lbs, and deliver a B-52 bomb load with the precision of a football extra point. These missiles solve military problems in ways other options do not. Obama signed a treaty and implemented a unilateral initiative moving this country back to MAD and doomsday weapons of the 50’s.
It is time to acknowledge this. Ignoring the elephant (in this case, rabid) had gone on long enough. It is obvious the reporters and their bosses are NOT going to stand up for our country, enough time has passed for them to wake up.
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