US staged 'limited' nuclear battle against Russia in war game

Guardian ^ | 2/25/2020 | Guardian

[RomanSoldier19]

All insanity, meanwhile everyone is dropping from flu, er bioweapon, er bats

[Sacajaweau]

Thought of that....what would be the point...it’s not they haven’t thought of it. You think they don’t have a war room?

[Grimmy]

Thought of that....what would be the point...it’s not they haven’t thought of it. You think they don’t have a war room?

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For decades, it’s been “oh no! we can’t go there! cant even!”

And now, the message sent is new boss, new rules.

Keep pushing at your own risk.

[indthkr]

I'm sure they do this multiple times a month in a variety of scenarios, or at least I hope so!

[sarge83]

Old stuff I imagine. I suspect from the 50’s to the end of the Cold War there were numerous war games where nukes were used, not used, used in limited events with the old Soviet Union. Have we really forgotten how we lived in the Cold War already.

[Alas Babylon!]

My first assignment was a Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD headquarters 1976-79.

We did these exercises EVERY day and night.

[Magnum44]

[Flick Lives]

The war game is notable because of the defence department’s highly unusual decision to brief journalists about the details

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One has to ask why DOD needed to drop the details on this simulation. They have an angle they’re playing and it’s anti-Trump.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Delivering a “message” without the nuclear dust fallout, for now.

Our message to Vlad is, this is our version of “Putting on the Blitz” (aka “Putin is blitzed”).

[RomanSoldier19]

If you watched NATO pre positining since 2016 and Russian war games countering:

this confrontation is on autopilot: but the fact everyone wants to fly toy nukes is something else

[McGruff]

Hell, you can play Global Thermal Nuclear War on your Xbox.

[McGruff]

[Chode]

[OldMissileer]

Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in DALLAS with all that stuff.”

I see you used the original script before they decided to change the name of the city to Vegas.

[Autonomous User]

I see you used the original script before they decided to change the name of the city to Vegas

Yep. The Kennedy Assassination freaked the producers out.