Foundation of US nuclear system showing cracks

Associated Press ^ | Nov 8, 2014 8:15 AM EST | Robert Burns

[Olog-hai]

The foundation of America’s nuclear arsenal is fractured, and the government has no clear plan to repair it.

The cracks appear not just in the military forces equipped with nuclear weapons but also in the civilian bureaucracy that controls them, justifies their cost, plans their future and is responsible for explaining a defense policy that says nuclear weapons are at once essential and excessive.

It’s not clear that the government recognizes the full scope of the problem, which has wormed its way to the core of the nuclear weapons business without disturbing bureaucracies fixated on defending their own turf. Nor has it aroused the public, which may think nuclear weapons are relics of the past, if it thinks about them at all. …

[gaijin]

No plans for repair cuz his last act will be to ABOLISH US nukes.

He’s going to DISARM us, and this is all groundwork to that goal.

[laweeks]

The anti-American, pro-Islamic (p)resident in our White House sure ain’t gonna’ do anything about it. He, his wife, and the whole cadre of anti-Americans surrounding him absolutely hate the military and anything it stands for.

Our nuclear situation probably is of no concern to Valerie Jarrett or any of the other of his puppet handlers.

[Olog-hai]

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is nuking up big-time.

[smokingfrog]

The computers they use to launch nuclear missiles still use 8 inch floppy disks.

[Da Coyote]

Seven Days in May.

Watch it.

Make sure we get a different ending.

[stanne]

I’d say renouncing abortion is a necessary component. But that’s just me and the divine grace crowd

Moral superiority or basic moral standing as a component to a good defense against a mortal enemy

[laplata]

Seven Days in May.

Watch it.

Make sure we get a different ending.

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I think it’s a possibility.

[OldMissileer]

The computers they use to launch nuclear missiles still use 8 inch floppy disks.

Those disks have nothing to do with the command or control of any part of the weapon systems. They are used to download a text file for the off-going crew to take back to base. They have no connection to any part of the weapon system.

[17th Miss Regt]

No, they don’t.

[43north]

Don’t worry. Russia, China, Pahkeestan, and all the rest of our enemies with nukes will be destroyed by global climate change before they have a chance to attack us.

[BobL]

“No plans for repair cuz his last act will be to ABOLISH US nukes.”

Of course the Republican Congress could simply force us to upgrade, but then the operative word is COULD.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping

[smokingfrog]

OK good to know.

[ConorMacNessa]

This Regime is destroying our Beloved Nation day-by-day, bit-by-bit. I'm just a 4-year vet, but I'm constrained to ask, given the outrages perpetrated by the Obama Regime, what should an active duty officer or enlisted man do?

Shut up for one's own safety - yes - but what to do to honor our oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States?

The dangers to our Nation, and to our Freedom, mount rapidly while our putative leader dithers, plays golf and exudes the smell of weakness and appeasement.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[BenLurkin]

[rbg81]

I’m just waiting for someone in Obama’s DOD to imply the the Nuclear arsenal is not relevant because it was designed by old (or dead) white guys.

[Jet Jaguar]

weakness and appeasement

Well put.