Posted on 02/02/2021 6:11:02 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
The United States must be ready for a nuclear war with China or Russia and seek new ways to deter both countries’ use of newly acquired advanced strategic weapons, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command is warning in a major new review of the global balance of nuclear forces.
Adm. Charles Richard, writing in the current issue of the U.S. Naval Institute journal Proceedings, offered a blunt and detailed assessment that the luxury of living in a post-Cold War era when direct armed conflict with a rival nuclear power was not possible is over.
“There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons, if they perceived a conventional loss would threaten the regime or state,” the four-star admiral wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
DC Not funny? Howcome? The Smithsonian would get flattened?
In fact China is making provocative moves towards Taiwan even as we speak... less than two weeks after The Joe occupies the CinC seat. That probably won't involve America in a nuclear war however; The Joe will likely abdicate our treaty with Taiwan... it just 'pays off'!
Yes, I agree with that.
The backbiting really hurt our nation.
Well, that’s good. We both are aware of the situation.
It doesn’t take massive strikes to do massive damage.
covid-19 death rate was way too low for that. But you can believe many watched with interest how a flu on steroids shut down the world.
a covid-21 with a high death rate would do the job rather nicely for them.
We’ve been lied to by anti-defense interests for generations about the effects of nuclear weapons attacks. It would be quite survivable and with good health for most. Iodine-131 decays out very quickly but is the most dangerous isotope. Cesium is much longer lasting but not dangerous unless ingested. If ingested (say, by fish or other animals), it decays out much more quickly. Rains would wash cesium down into low spots and into the ground fairly soon in most places (with enough rainfall).
Hiroshima and Nagasaki anti-nuclear propaganda debunked by the hard facts
Effective countermeasures against conventional, chemical and nuclear war and terrorist threats
http://glasstone.blogspot.com/2009/11/groupthink-and-proliferation-why.html
Free online book - Nuclear War Survival Skills
Free online book Nuclear War Survival Skills Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition &, Hebrew KF Nuclear War Survival Skills Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition Cresson H. Kearny
With Foreword by Dr. Edward Teller
http://www.oism.org/nwss/
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
NUKEMAP is a Google Maps mash-up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
NBC/ABC Warfare Survival Skills Links
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/529562/posts
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare - Survival Skills, Pt. II
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/537242/posts
The
Effects
of
Nuclear
Weapons
Compiled and edited by
Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan
Third Edition
Prepared and published by the
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
and the
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
1977
https://www.dtra.mil/Portals/61/Documents/NTPR/4-Rad_Exp_Rpts/36_The_Effects_of_Nuclear_Weapons.pdf
EMP attack danger overstated?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/07/emp_attack_danger_overstated.html
The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 1)
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1549/1
Fears North Korea is planning a ‘space nuke’ to knock out America’s power with an an electromagnetic pulse slammed as ‘silly’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4471120/A-North-Korean-space-nuke-WOULDN-T-lay-waste-America.html
Is a good national defense possible? Of course!
‘Sci-Fi Awesome’—A U.S. Army Howitzer Just Shot Down A Cruise Missile
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/09/06/sci-fi-awesome-a-us-army-howitzer-just-shot-down-a-cruise-missile/
Time to revue Major Kong’s survival kit
Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find:
one forty-five caliber automatic;
two boxes of ammunition;
four days’ concentrated emergency rations;
one drug issue containing
antibiotics,
morphine,
vitamin pills,
pep pills,
sleeping pills,
tranquilizer pills;
one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible;
one hundred dollars in rubles;
one hundred dollars in gold;
nine packs of chewing gum;
one issue of prophylactics;
three lipsticks;
three pair of nylon stockings.
Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
Of coarse they would. Nobody commits suicide. Eventually have to come out of the bunker and smell the acrid smoke....
That was not the issue. Quit the crap, you know better.
I agree as I wouldn’t worry about Russia, they are doing just fine and to them Putin is what Trump was to the American people, liked by most.
He will be reassigned or removed. Biden wants to sell us out to Russia and China.
PING!!!
Country Joe And The Fish PING!
I'm of the opinion that the real reason the NZ government (Jacinda Ardern, et al), is banning all kinds of firearms from their subjects is because the elites have put pressure on them. The global elites with their doomsday shelters in New Zealand do not want the local rubes to be able to cause any trouble if and when they have fly off to their bolt holes.
Now Uncle Joe works for us
We won’t fire them ever.
The CCP will make sure of it.
America, now that Trump is out, is led by cowards.
It would put another 8-10 states in play though. :-)
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