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Could Russia's New Nuclear Weapons Win World War III?
Forbes ^ | November 20, 2014 | James Conca

Posted on 11/21/2014 4:10:21 AM PST by lbryce

Russia certainly thinks so.

Their new round of nuclear weapons, their new aggressive posture and their new spurning of joint nuclear programs with the United States, all point to a disconcerting trend in Russian thinking.

Americans have short memories. Russians don’t. It’s only been 25 years since the Wall came down, but in Russia’s mind the Cold War didn’t end. If Russia’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t enough of a heads-up, then maybe their new generation of tactical nuclear weapons is.

That’s right – new tactical nuclear weapons - as in “yeah, we might use them since their only tactical.” No one would risk World War III over that.

Here in America, we’ve been a little full of ourselves, thinking we were so superior to Russia and everyone else in technology and weaponry. I mean, we could turn them into dust, right? But lately, in our obsession with drones and cyber warfare, we haven’t been paying attention to the whole nuclear weapons thing.

On September 10, Putin said Russia will develop a new guaranteed nuclear deterrent to counter the United States and NATO.

Actually, they already have. Russia’s tactical nukes are now better than both ours and NATO’s (NYTimes). NATO member countries have only 260 older tactical weapons. Sited in Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey, the U.S. has 200 nuclear bombs with an overall capacity of 18 megatons. France has 60 atomic bombs.

As discussed in a report outlined in PRAVDA, Russia has 5,000 nuclear weapons of different tactical classes including Iskander warheads and torpedo, aerial and artillery warheads, all right next to Europe.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nuclearweapons; russia; ww3
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To: The Duke

How many of those under fifty, including those with undergraduate or even advanced degrees, know the difference between their, there and they’re? I think it is rather low, I have actually seen all three used within one or two sentences here on FR and all three used INCORRECTLY. One response to something I posted on the subject said all three should be spelled the same since they are all pronounced the same! Apart from the fact that one is a contraction with an apostrophe that sounds rather strange to me since I have always pronounced them differently. Having been raised dirt poor on a little farm in South Carolina and actually having walked behind a mule growing up it is rather amazing to see supposedly educated people making errors which would have kept me in the fifth grade until I had a full beard.


21 posted on 11/21/2014 5:40:56 AM PST by RipSawyer (WO)
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22 posted on 11/21/2014 5:41:06 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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To: RipSawyer
Within a few minutes of posting this article I received a message via FR mail regarding the author of this article having used "their" when it required spelling it "they're".

Here is his email and my response to the spelling problems that seem to plague "their" and "they're".

Reply Next Previous Delete Re: Could Russia's New Nuclear Weapons Win World War III? From OldPossum | 11/21/2014 4:21:30 AM PST replied “them since their only tactical”

Did this appear in the original? “Their” instead of “they’re.” In Forbes?

If so, how amazingly sloppy.

Regards,

OldPossum

Re: Re: Could Russia's New Nuclear Weapons Win World War III? To lbryce | 11/21/2014 4:41:51 AM PST sent

You may be an OldPossum but your eyesight is young and new. Excellent catch. Of course the text is verbatim as it appears in the article. I merely copy and paste. To copy the article word by word manually is overwhelmingly much too difficult with no upside.

I checked the original article and it does appear using the homonym version of “they’re”, appearing as “their”.

But while the author should know better and is definitely to blame deserving all the admonishment you can muster, you can almost blame new technology almost as much.

These errors of the written word containing the homonym version, but of course is in the form in which it is spelled incorrectly under any circumstances is the result of modern computer spell-checkers, used absolutely blindly by authors, journalists, writers of all stripes who after completing the article will enable the spell checker software to read each word to determine any spelling errors and once they get the “no spelling errors found” will publish the article with compete confidence of its spelling integrity.

The problem is that ‘spell checkers’ still do not have the capacity to distinguish between homonyms in sentence and while they are 100% infallible when it comes to making sure the spelling is correct throughout the text, the same thing can not be said for its word usage.

And so, since ‘their’ is indeed spelled correctly, it will respond with ‘no spelling errors found’. Still, writers who rely on spell checkers ought to be even more cautious today than ever knowing the gaping grammar loophole they are prone to.

So, despite the explanation, at the end of the day you are still nevertheless absolutely correct. ‘Amazingly sloppy’ applies no matter what.

Thanks very much for your comments.

All my Very Best.

Leon Bryce

23 posted on 11/21/2014 5:50:41 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter
Could Russia's New Nuclear Weapons Win World War III?

Yes. Instead of maintenance and upkeep of our strategic forces, we've squandered untold riches on Iraq, who should've been paying us war reparations, not to mention the money spent on illegal immigrants and my favorite - muzzie outreach.

24 posted on 11/21/2014 6:15:23 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (OK. Now How many votes do we need to IMPEACH and REMOVE the bastard?)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
No one “wins” a nuclear world war 3.

It all depends on your definition of "win".

If "win" is defined as "I and my ruling elite are alive, and nobody is now in a position to challenge our rule over what is left of the world", then perhaps some individuals DO consider a nuclear exchange "winnable", regardless of how many millions are dead among the peasantry.

25 posted on 11/21/2014 6:21:20 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: lbryce
Part of the reason the deep state has resurrected the image of the evil Russian boogieman in the public imagination of the West is to keep their attention focused away from the more serious and challenging problems presented by the teeming hordes of radical jihadi zombies worldwide.

It's less like reading a Tom Clancy novel than it is like watching a formalistic B-rated horror movie for the second or third time.

26 posted on 11/21/2014 6:31:14 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aide)
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To: RipSawyer

“...know the difference between their, there and they’re?”

It’s not there fault...it’s that darn autocorekt.


27 posted on 11/21/2014 6:42:47 AM PST by moovova
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To: lbryce

At least the Russia is Russian. Unlike America.


28 posted on 11/21/2014 6:50:47 AM PST by The Toll
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To: moovova

Why does Russia even need to bother? What billions upon billions of dollars couldn’t do, a monkey in the white hut won Ww3 for Russia without firing a shot.


29 posted on 11/21/2014 6:51:53 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
No one “wins” a nuclear world war 3

Correct. The Brookings and Rand corporation think tanks war gamed the use of tactical nukes. Note, one corporation is liberal and the other conservative. Both think tanks came to the same conclusion, the use of tactical nukes always lead to total thermonuclear war with both sides launching their big nukes.

Tactical nukes are good if your enemy does not have nukes.

30 posted on 11/21/2014 6:55:05 AM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“Why does Russia even need to bother? “

Exactly. A few more years of this traitor’s actions, and Russia could park landing craft on the East coast with little or no resistance.


31 posted on 11/21/2014 7:18:10 AM PST by moovova
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To: moovova

“It’s not there fault...it’s that darn autocorekt.”
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It’s still they’re fault, their depending too much on there autocowrecker or ortawronger or whatever.


32 posted on 11/21/2014 7:23:52 AM PST by RipSawyer (WO)
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To: RipSawyer

“It’s still they’re fault...”

I know, I know...and then you throw in bifocals overlooking fat fingers “swyping” on a 2.5 x 4.5 inch screen displaying characters in #4 font, not to mention an approaching naptime...life is tough!


33 posted on 11/21/2014 7:49:20 AM PST by moovova
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