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700 US scientists urged unhinged Regime to ditch Nukes as “dangerous, unnecessary ..and with no meaningful security benefits“
from thefreeonline 9 Jul,’24 by World News photo/ Shkolenko (on Telegram: https://t.me/thefreeonline)
Supporters of the FIDESZ and KDNP parties at a peace march, Budapest, Hungary, June 2, 2024. © Gergely Besenyei / AF
The US Department of Defense will continue developing its new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) despite an 81% increase in costs as Washington seeks to update its ‘nuclear triad’.
The Sentinel ICBM program, which is intended to replace aging Minuteman III nuclear missiles, is now expected to cost $140.9 billion – almost double the original estimate of $77.7 billion, the Pentagon said in a statement on Monday.
The ballooning cost of the nuclear warhead program has triggered what is known as a Nunn-McCurdy breach, which occurs if the cost of developing a new program increases by 25%, and requires a Department of Defense review to justify its continuation
Map of US claims to show areas most at risk of being targeted in a Nuclear Holocaust…The map indicates that areas such as Montana and North Dakota may be vital to strike US forces.
However Russia as warned the US not to launch their “Decapitation Strike”, claiming that “with their Nuclear Submarine Fleet, ‘Dead Hand’ Plan and the now deployed Satan 2 unstoppable multiple Hypersonic ICBMs, they would destroy all US targets and cities in the first 15 minutes of the war”.
Following this review, the Pentagon has found that there are no viable alternatives to the Sentinel.
William LaPlante, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, said his office was “fully aware of the costs…But we are also aware of the risks of not modernizing our nuclear forces and not addressing the very real threats we confront,” he added in the statement.
Much of the cost increase has been attributed not only to building the new missile but also to the large-scale modernization of ground-based facilities, including launch control centers, nuclear missile bases, and testing facilities.
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They argued that “there is no sound technical or strategic rationale for spending tens of billions of dollars building new nuclear weapons.”
“These weapons – stored in silos across the Plains states – place a target on communities and increase the risk of nuclear war while offering no meaningful security benefits,” said Tara Drozdenko, director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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The size of the US nuclear arsenal is currently limited by New START, a treaty negotiated with Russia in 2010. It is set to expire in 2026, with no indications that it might be renewed.
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Last year, Russia formally suspended its participation in New START, citing US sanctions over the Ukraine conflict and encouragement of Kiev’s attacks on Russian strategic air bases.
However, Moscow has continued to observe the treaty’s provisions, capping its number of nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
Map of US claims to show areas most at risk of being targeted in nuclear war… https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-map-nuclear-war-russia-b2279249.html
March 31, 2024
While the 2,000 warhead scenario looks devastating, and the Russians have over 6,000 warheads, most of those are NOT already on a missile, launcher or in a bomb bay ready to go.
More likely would be the 500 targets as shown with the purple triangle. I would hope it never actually happens, but I think some would fail to launch/explode and some get taken out even before such a human catastrophe. edited
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October 13, 2023
600,000 golden retrievers will be killed in the U.S. if Russia and China nuke us.
The F-35 of this small European country can now carry out nuclear attacks…
July 19, 2023
This really isn’t the best map. The one made by Halcyon Maps is a lot better and, in fact, is the one FEMA is using now.
March 9, 2023
FEMA’s analysis is off base. The agency and contractor responsible for targeting the US nuclear arsenal have lists of their targets, and they know the lists of our adversaries. The first strikes in a nuclear war would be designed to take out all communications, and disrupt the locations of people who must make decisions. Right after that would be the locations that would allow the attacked party to shoot back. To be effective a first strike would need to be massive – not selective. China might be selective in Taiwan, but once they start shooting at the US or our bases, they would empty the closet. The #1 regional target would be Washington, DC for obvious reasons. #2 would be Puget Sound because it is home to two (2) carrier bases, a naval aviation base, a joint Army/Air Force base, 3 major Boeing Concentrations, and numerous suppliers to all of those (like Microsoft and, yes, Amazon). Each of those would be targeted by numerous warheads.
But the #1 reason why Puget Sound is #2 right behind DC is the Bangor Trident Submarine base because while many of the Boomers are deployed, eventually they need to come home and be refueled and rearmed. One Trident Sub can sit on the bottom of the ocean for a year, and then surface and kill everyone in China (or Russia). Trident subs scare the bejesus out of our adversaries, and with good reason. The mere prospect of this potential armageddon (supported by all the missiles in those other places that survive the first wave) will hopefully dissuade the Chinese from doing anything foolish. MAD still lives on.
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April 1, 2024
Does it really matter that they take out the base the subs must eventually go to in order to resupply? Everyone important on both sides would be dead on the first day. Both Russia and the USA use ground burst nukes to hit their rival’s hidey-holes.
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February 10, 2023
Our governments have brought us to this without any choice. What are they preparing for our survival, or is it just too bad for us, while they survive safely in their luxury bunkers?
This is what nuclear war in 2024 would look like
February 10, 2023
I wouldn’t want to live near Cheyenne. On the other hand northern Nevada looks to be safe from any nuclear threats..
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February 10, 2023
I remember the nuclear scare during the Korean war and the drills that were carried out in schools; this is beginning to sound familiar.
February 9, 2023
Mr Putin said in December that Russia may change its policy of not being the first to use nuclear arms in a military conflict.
The US should now be on a “Launch on Warning” alert to prevent her ICBM force being taken out. One good thing is the US Force can be targeted at Russian military, economic and political targets, not empty Russian ICBM silos. edited
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March 9, 2023
Russia are now in a position to secretly MIRV or worse still MARV all her missiles. Accuracy of her weapons is now good enough to make a direct hit on all US ICBM sites, airbases and their alternates. In the past the inaccuracy of her missiles meant many silos would be safe, but today is different.
Targeting the Trident bases would remove all but a handful of boats at sea which have only a reduced number of warheads in each missile, which was required to stay within START guidelines. It would also destroy the “spare” missiles and if you hit the warhead plant (s) that would be that. The US replacement plan for the Ohio class has 12 boats with only 16 tubes each compared with the 18 Ohio’s built with 24 tubes.
March 31, 2024
Ridiculous! Launching missiles at America will see similar retaliation long before Russian missiles reached apogee. The US missiles will wave to the Russian missiles as they pass. Both countries would cease to exist. You cannot win such a war; it is suicide.
Russia’s Maria Zakharova again demands US remove its nuclear weapons from Europe— diplomat –
from thefreeonline on 9th July ’24 via The Slow Burning Fuse text by Stephanie McMillan (now on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline)
1) Raise consciousness with the purpose of building organization and raising the level of struggle.
2) Investigate before forming opinions. Research how the world and the system function.
3) Read foundational and historical works about revolution, by those who have participated in and led them.
4) Analyze the system’s current condition and trajectory.
5) Learn about the resistance, uprisings and revolutions going on in the world today.
6) Read the material that currently active groups are issuing and discussing.
7) Continuously develop, elaborate upon and refine principles, theories and strategies for our movement.
8. Raise our voices. Articulate revolutionary ideas, and give them a public presence.
9) Listen and speak in the spirit of mutual clarification.
10) Participate in discussion, to develop our ideas and hone our skills in expressing them, and to help others do so.
11) Figure out how to use all our various talents, positions, energy and resources as effectively as possible, to expose the system’s evil, irredeemable and unreformable nature.
12) Analyze and explain the many ways the system dominates and exploits.
13) Stand with the dominated, exploited, invaded, colonized, threatened and oppressed.
14) Display a revolutionary spirit and celebrate it in others.
15) Exercise patience in winning over reluctant potential allies and supporters.
16) Ridicule and discredit the enemy.
17) Create revolutionary culture. Make videos and art, speak, sing, and write blogs, books, comments, leaflets, rhymes, stories, and articles about the enemy’s crimes and the people’s resistance.
18) Exchange ideas locally, nationally and (within the law or safe channels) globally.
19) Encourage others to participate in the revolutionary process.
Continue reading “50 Ways to Prepare for Revolution * photos* – Stephanie McMillan”Does Mexico have the Sovereign ‘Right’ to join and host a Chinese-led Military Alliance and Bases? The US would invade and destroy. . Does Ukraine have the ‘Right’ to join and host US-led NATO on Russia’s border?
by thefreeonline on 8th July 2024 info with thanks- Glenn Diesen at HomeRussia — (on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline)
By Glenn Diesen, editor at ‘Russia in Global Affairs’ journal. Follow on Substack.
Political realism is commonly and mistakenly portrayed as immoral because its principal focus is on an inescapable security competition, and it thus rejects idealist efforts to transcend power politics.
Radical masked protestor among the burning of Kiev, Ukraine. © Getty Images /
Because states cannot break away from security competition, morality for the realist entails acting in accordance with the balance of power logic as the foundation for stability and peace.
Idealist efforts to break with power politics can then be defined as immoral, as they undermine the management of the security competition as the foundation of peace.
As Raymond Aron expressed in 1966: “The idealist, believing he has broken with power politics, exaggerates its crimes.”
The most appealing and dangerous idealist argument that has destroyed Ukraine is that it has the right to join any military alliance it desires. It is a very attractive statement that easily won support from the public, as it affirms the freedom and sovereignty of Ukraine, and the alternative is seemingly that Russia should be allowed to dictate Ukraine’s policies.
However, arguing that Ukraine should be allowed to join any military alliance is an idealist argument, as it appeals to how we would like the world to be, not how the world actually works.
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The principle that peace is derived from the expansion of military alliances without taking into account the security interests of other great powers has never existed in reality.
States such as Ukraine that border a great power have every reason to express legitimate security concerns, but inviting a rival great power such as the US into its territory intensifies the security competition.
Is it moral to insist on how the world ought to be when brutal massacring war is the consequence of ignoring how the world actually works?
The alternative to expanding NATO is not to accept a Russian sphere of influence, which denotes a zone of exclusive influence. Peace is derived from recognizing a Russian sphere of interests, which is an area where Russian security interests must be recognized and incorporated rather than excluded.
It did not use to be controversial to argue that Russian security interests must be taken into account when operating on its borders.
This is why Europe had a belt of neutral states as a buffer between East and West during the Cold War to mitigate the security competition.
Mexico, for example, has plenty of freedoms in the international system, but it does not have the freedom to join a Chinese-led military alliance or to host Chinese military bases.
The idealist argument that Mexico can do as it pleases implies ignoring US security concerns, and the result would likely be the US destruction of Mexico.
If Scotland secedes from the UK and then joins a Russian-led military alliance and hosts Russian missiles, would the English still champion the principle of consent?
When we live in a realist world and recognize that security competition must be mitigated for peace, then we accept a security system based on mutual constraints.
Continue reading “How hypocritical idealism justifies the slaughter of Ukraine for a CIA/MI5 proxy war on Russia”
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