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Merkel miffed at Barack Obama and David Cameron 'nuclear war game'
Telegraph UK ^ | March 25, 2014 | By Bruno Waterfield, and Peter Dominiczak in The Hague and Nick Squires in Rome

Posted on 03/25/2014 9:51:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

World leaders played an interactive nuclear war game designed to test their responses to a terrorist atomic "dirty bomb" attack that threatened the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

David Cameron joined Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Xi Jinping and other world leaders to play a "nukes on the loose" war game to see how they would cope with a terrorist nuclear attack.

The German chancellor grumbled at being asked to play games and take tests with the Prime Minister, US and Chinese presidents around a table with dozens of heads of state at a nuclear summit in The Hague.

Her complaints were overruled because Mr Obama was keen on the idea and in on the surprise.

In the war game, played out by actors in a series of short films, a terrorist attack with an atomic "dirty bomb" takes place in the financial heart of an unnamed but Western metropolis. "It could be the City of London, or Wall Street, Milan or anywhere", summit leaders were told.

As the scenario unfolded, it emerged that the terrorists are from an unidentified global terror network and they have stolen nuclear material from an unidentified country that had poorly secured its radiological and nuclear stockpiles.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; brunowaterfield; cameron; davidcameron; doomsday; doomsdaycult; germany; loosenuke; merkel; nicksquires; nuclearwargame; obamacheated; obamaeuropetrip; obamatrip; opbama; peterdominiczak; putin; russia; ukraine; unitedkingdom; viktoryanukovich; wargames; yuliatymoshenko
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Send in the clowns. Literally.
1 posted on 03/25/2014 9:51:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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we are playing nuke war games with China, so they can see how our president and national security systems react?
charming
not


2 posted on 03/25/2014 9:55:28 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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“Mr Obama was keen on the idea and in on the surprise...”

Limbaugh theorem proven.


3 posted on 03/25/2014 9:56:27 AM PDT by kropcke
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“...Send in the clowns. ...”

Send in??? They’re ALREADY in.

Remove the Clowns should be our motto.


4 posted on 03/25/2014 9:56:34 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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Mutual support network for curtailing such liberties as remain IMO.


5 posted on 03/25/2014 9:58:48 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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Yep, golf wasn't one of the options...


6 posted on 03/25/2014 9:59:02 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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What a coincidence. We're talking about obama’s fear that a loose nuke might find it's way to Manhattan.
7 posted on 03/25/2014 9:59:05 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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Obama would rather have played golf, but will settle for war games.


8 posted on 03/25/2014 10:00:27 AM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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The head clown was there.


9 posted on 03/25/2014 10:00:56 AM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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Oh Lord...just take me now.


10 posted on 03/25/2014 10:01:08 AM PDT by pgkdan
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“unidentified global terror network”

The Tea Party.


11 posted on 03/25/2014 10:01:18 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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Obama: Whoops, did I do that?

12 posted on 03/25/2014 10:01:27 AM PDT by McGruff (They say the first casualty of war is truth)
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BTTT


13 posted on 03/25/2014 10:02:29 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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Ahhhh, now we find out why Obama sent Mooch & the kids off to China:


Prime Minster of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt arrives for the NSS summit dinner at the Palace Huis ten Bosch


Obama and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands sharing a light moment at Huis ten Bosch prior to a dinner hosted by King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima ok

14 posted on 03/25/2014 10:04:01 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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I actually have some experience in Pol-Mil Wargaming from years ago both in Checkmate and the Center for Low Intensity Conflict. The first, absolutely first, rule is never directly involve the head of state. He or she can watch but should not become directly involved. When one does become involved it lets an audience see how you think and what you would do. This goes all the way back to Kennedy and his first Pol-Mil game that was done at Camp David.


15 posted on 03/25/2014 10:04:11 AM PDT by Portcall24
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This will give him something to do the next vacay he takes and there is a rain day or something.

Man, this guy is lost like a ball in tall grass. Frightening!


16 posted on 03/25/2014 10:04:25 AM PDT by llevrok (F the government)
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These war games have been played for years...in war rooms...not at lunch.

It wouldn't surprise me if she really gets p****** and walks out.

17 posted on 03/25/2014 10:05:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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18 posted on 03/25/2014 10:05:02 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Obama loved it as he declared Martial Law and proclaimed himself President for life!


19 posted on 03/25/2014 10:06:33 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: bigbob

Do you want to play a game?


20 posted on 03/25/2014 10:07:58 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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