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  • Zero Has No Legs

    04/05/2010 10:14:43 PM PDT · by myknowledge · 12 replies · 639+ views
    GlobalSecurity.org ^ | April 5, 2010 | Amitai Etzioni
    President Obama's strategy to protect us from the danger of nuclear war and nuclear terrorism is about to be tested. The precept that good deeds (and fabulous speeches) beget good deeds will face reality at two major international conferences: Obama's Nuclear Security Summit in mid April and the Review Conference of the Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty in May. Obama proffered an attractive vision of a world without nuclear weapons, and a theory--that if Russia and the U.S. reduce their stockpiles, other nations will be inspired either to give up their nuclear arms or refrain from acquiring them. That is...
  • Exercise in 2009 simulated nuclear attack on U.S., counterstrike

    04/05/2010 7:18:37 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 23 replies · 697+ views
    GeoStrategy Direct ^ | 4/4/2010 | GeoStrategy Direct
    The U.S. Strategic Command last year held one of its largest major exercises simulating a nuclear attack on the United States and a counterstrike involving bombers, ground-based missiles and submarine-launched missiles. Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton last week told the House Armed Services subcommittee that the exercise was “the most extensive nuclear command, control and communications field exercise in over a decade.” “It demonstrated the full range of nuclear deterrence capabilities by integrating submarine strategic deterrent patrols, more than 90 aircraft sorties, an ICBM test launch, and five days of continuous airborne command-and-control operations,” he said. The exercise, held from...
  • Israel unveils new drone fleet that can fly as far as Persian Gulf, putting Iran within range

    02/21/2010 11:58:19 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 22 replies · 1,024+ views
    The Newport News Daily Press / The Associated Press ^ | February 21, 2010 | Tia Goldenberg
    TEL NOF AIR FORCE BASE, Israel — Israel's air force on Sunday introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and fly as far as the Persian Gulf, putting rival Iran within its range. The Heron TP drones have a wingspan of 86 feet (26 meters), making them the size of Boeing 737 passenger jets and the largest unmanned aircraft in Israel's military. The planes can fly at least 20 consecutive hours and are primarily used for surveillance and carrying diverse payloads. At the fleet's inauguration ceremony at a sprawling air...
  • The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 2)

    02/01/2010 11:23:59 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 53 replies · 1,104+ views
    The Space Review ^ | 2/1/2010 | Yousaf M. Butt
    What appears to be of particular concern to the EMP commission is the scepter of terrorist groups or so-called “rogue” nations carrying out such an attack. As outlined by Dr. Pry, one of the commissioners, before a 2005 Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, “[a] nuclear missile concealed in the hold of a freighter would give Iran, or terrorists, the capability to perform an EMP attack against the United States homeland, without developing an ICBM, and with some prospect of remaining anonymous. Iran’s Shahab-3 medium-range missile… is a mobile missile, and small enough to be transported in the...
  • Pakistan rejects report questioning nuclear weapons' safety

    11/08/2009 8:43:33 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 3 replies · 310+ views
    Space War ^ | 11/08/2009 | Staff Writers via AFP
    Pakistan on Sunday angrily rejected a media report that raised fears of a militant takeover of the Taliban-hit nation's nuclear weapons and suggested that the US had a hand in protecting the arsenal. In the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote that US officials had negotiated pacts with Pakistan to provide security for the nuclear arsenal in extreme circumstances. It also raised the possibility that the threat to the security of the nuclear programme might come not from Taliban rebels battling the government, but from a "mutiny" by fundamentalist elements within the powerful military....
  • US Must Plan for Nuke Wars

    10/28/2009 8:32:37 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 19 replies · 856+ views
    DoD Buzz ^ | 10/28/2009 | Colin Grant
    Perhaps more than any other open-source outfit, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has put serious intellectual muscle into examining the implications of waging war in an environment where potential enemies don’t just threaten to use nuclear weapons, they actually detonate a nuclear device. While nuclear disarmament remains a noble aspiration, the world is going in the other direction, that is, more states with more nukes, says CSBA President Andrew Krepinevich in a new report, US Nuclear Forces: Meeting the Challenge of a Proliferated World. From four nuclear states in the 1960s, there are now double that number (adding...
  • "Why the Nobel Peace Prize Should Go to Nuclear Weapons" (Yahoo News -decent read)

    10/11/2009 7:54:47 AM PDT · by austinaero · 8 replies · 559+ views
    Yahoo News with TIME moniker ^ | 10/11/2009 | David Von Drehle
    "President Barack Obama's Nobel peace surprise was given "primarily for his work on and commitment to nuclear disarmament," according to Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician who served on the award committee. Valle told the Wall Street Journal that the stewards of the prize wanted to "support" Obama's goal, as expressed recently at the United Nations, "of a world without nuclear weapons." It's tough to think of a goal more widely espoused than the dream of an H-bomb-free planet. Ronald Reagan and Jane Fonda, political opposites, came together on this one - in his second term, Reagan stunned his own advisers...
  • Middle East atomic conflict would kill tens of millions: report

    07/21/2009 9:14:37 AM PDT · by FlorianG · 31 replies · 1,292+ views
    National Post ^ | July 18, 2009 | Peter Goodspeed
    It's the nightmare that haunts the modern Middle East --Iran succeeds in its quest for nuclear weapons and goes to war with Israel, causing massive human casualties and destruction on a demonic scale that in turn could trigger a worldwide economic collapse. Now, researchers at Washington's Center for Strategic & International Studies have tried to assess the extent to which civilian targets will be damaged in any Iran-Israel nuclear exchange.
  • Israeli navy in Suez Canal prepares for potential attack on Iran?

    07/16/2009 5:17:29 PM PDT · by Iraqs Inconvenient Truth. · 9 replies · 1,177+ views
    Times Online UK ^ | July 16, 2009 | Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem
    Two Israeli missile class warships have sailed through the Suez Canal ten days after a submarine capable of launching a nuclear missile strike, in preparation for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
  • N.Korea warns of 'dark clouds of nuclear war'

    06/25/2009 9:13:24 AM PDT · by FromLori · 21 replies · 665+ views
    Google News ^ | 6/25/09
    SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea warned that "dark clouds of nuclear war" are gathering over the peninsula and vowed to strengthen its atomic arsenal as it marked the anniversary of the 1950-1953 conflict. Rodong Sinmun, newspaper of the ruling communist party, accused the United States and its ally South Korea of trying to provoke another war with their pledge of a US nuclear "umbrella" over the South. "A touch-and-go situation has been created on the Korean peninsula... with dark clouds of a nuclear war gathering as the hours tick by," it said in a lengthy commentary marking the anniversary, carried...
  • WWIII? British release secret planning manual

    06/23/2009 4:07:31 PM PDT · by decimon · 8 replies · 916+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Jill Lawless
    It's October 1968, and the Soviet Union has just landed cosmonauts on the moon. Warsaw Pact troops are massing on the Austrian border, and nuclear showdown looms between east and west.
  • Obama says Iran's energy concerns legitimate

    06/02/2009 5:10:15 PM PDT · by ROCKLOBSTER · 14 replies · 542+ views
    Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | NANCY ZUCKERBROD
    Obama says Iran's energy concerns legitimate By NANCY ZUCKERBROD The Associated Press Tuesday, June 2, 2009 3:40 PM LONDON -- President Barack Obama reiterated that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations are peaceful. In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, Obama also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it to set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor. Iran has insisted its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity. But the U.S. and other Western governments accuse Tehran of seeking atomic weapons. "Without going...
  • The Unfolding Iranian Drama

    05/22/2009 7:06:45 PM PDT · by Iam1ru1-2 · 7 replies · 473+ views
    American Spectator ^ | Herbert London
    Based on hints, feints, public pronouncements, and off the record commentary, the administration's stance toward Iran is coming into focus. Without any question, military action against Iran is off the agenda. The Obama administration will do nothing to prevent the further enrichment of uranium by Iran's mullahs, notwithstanding who is elected in that nation's upcoming vote. The negotiations with Iran are based on the premise that Iran can produce as much enriched uranium as it wants as long as a nuclear bomb isn't manufactured. In other words, Obama seeks a "Japanese solution," the conditions for a bomb without actually making...
  • The terror war and nuclear proliferation

    04/19/2009 8:50:21 PM PDT · by graywaiter · 13 replies · 613+ views
    The Examiner ^ | April 17, 2009 | Paul Kujawsky
    Brian T. Kennedy, the president of the Claremont Institute, dished out blame impartially for why America doesn’t have missile defense. “Liberals are automatically opposed to missile defense,” as it represents American military superiority; conservatives were too busy preening about winning the Cold War; too busy trying to save tax dollars.” Since no one took the menace seriously enough, today we have only a rudimentary system. Missile strikes are bad enough. When Kennedy turned his attention to the EMP threat, the horrible became unimaginable. EMP, or Electromagnetic Pulse, sounds like science fiction, but is deadly serious. A single nuclear warhead, perhaps...
  • Russia’s nuclear attack on U.S. may start with major banks (A gift from Russia to the world)

    04/18/2009 8:34:41 PM PDT · by Gordon Greene · 31 replies · 1,925+ views
    Pravda ^ | 17.04.2009 | Sergei Malinin
    While US scientists put forward the new doctrine of the Minimum Nuclear Deterrence (targeting missiles against Russia’s 12 key enterprises), Bigness.ru decided to draw a map of a limited strike that could paralyze the US economy. It turns out that the United States is much more vulnerable than Russia at this point. An attack against only five targets in the USA will throw the US economy back into the Stone Age. US scientists put forward an idea to focus targets on 12 key objects of the Russian economy: enterprises of Gazprom, Rosneft, Rusal, Nornikel, Surgutneftegaz, Evraz and Severstal. The suggestion...
  • New Russian Roulette

    03/10/2009 5:35:13 PM PDT · by ihatedemocrats · 2 replies · 389+ views
    Taki 's Magazine ^ | November 25, 2007 | Andrei Navrozov
    In the 1930s even some of the older and more intellectual Russians, including those who had seen a bit of the world in their youth, believed that the United States was the land of the Yellow Devil, meaning gold. It was said that when one American met another in the street, he greeted him as follows: “Make money?” To which the other replied, with Puritan candour: “Very much, thank you.” To those Americans, our grandfathers knew, nothing was sacred. Their tabernacles were to Moloch, their culture was as venal as their women, and needless to say their women were all...
  • Report: Obama Offers to Scrap Missile Shield If Russia Cooperates on Iran

    03/02/2009 1:23:55 PM PST · by icwhatudo · 114 replies · 2,517+ views
    Fox News ^ | March 02, 2009 | staff
    President Obama offered to consider scrapping plans for a missile defense shield in Europe if Russia helps rein in Iran's nuclear program, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported. -------snip---- Obama inherited plans to build the system in Poland and the Czech Republic from the Bush administration, but the new administration has equivocated over the project. Though the plans were put in place to deter nations like Iran and North Korea from launching attacks and developing nuclear weapons, Russia has interpreted the planned installation as a threat.
  • "Parowan Prophet" to repeat his prophecy that Obama will never serve as POTUS

    12/15/2008 9:58:21 AM PST · by 47samurai · 34 replies · 1,735+ views
    RadioActive with Steve Mitton ^ | 12/15/08 | Steve Mitton
    For the past 10 years we have had Leland Freeborn on our show. Over the week end, tens of thousands have discovered the 'Parowan Prophet' since the Drudge Report reported he predicted that President- Presumptive Barack Obama would never take the oath of office. (read article here) Assassination? Ilness? Death? National emergency? Natural disaster? Nope. We will be hit with a nuclear strike. We have heard Leland predict this before, but never with such specificity. Listen HERE at 2pm today for an interview with the Parowan Prophet.
  • Pakistani Nuclear Scientist: Missiles "Are on the Launchers"

    12/04/2008 8:46:56 AM PST · by jhpigott · 24 replies · 1,318+ views
    December 4, 2008 No. 2138 Pakistani Nuclear Scientist: 'None Of India's Cities Can Remain Safe From Our Missiles'; 'Our Missile System… Can Be Fired in Only 10 Minutes – They Are On the Launchers' http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD213808 Amid growing tensions between India and Pakistan following the 11/26 Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr. Samar Mubarakmand spoke of the readiness of Pakistani missiles and of their capability to target Indian cities. Dr. Mubarakmand, who has steered the Pakistani nuclear program for the past several decades alongside disgraced nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, expressed his views during a talk show. Following are...
  • India has proof ISI trained Mumbai attackers: Sources

    12/04/2008 6:35:54 AM PST · by maquiladora · 139 replies · 7,985+ views
    NDTV ^ | Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:46 PM (New Delhi)
    India has proof that the Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI was behind the deadly Mumbai attacks. Sources have told NDTV that ISI trained the attackers.The names of trainers and the places where meticulous training took place are also known to the government, the sources said. The United States is believed to have even more evidence some of which it has shared with India, they said. The US has told Pakistan that they have proof of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba's role and sought the arrest of its chief Hafeez Sayeed. Sources added it is hard to imagine that Pakistan army was not aware...