Posted on 09/05/2022 6:42:08 PM PDT by entropy12
Who let you out of the hospital?
Obviously he hasn’t read On the Beach either. And that was written with the much smaller nukes of 50 years ago.
this is also why you do not elect people with dementia to the presidency.... I think we are closer to nuclear war since Biden took office.
The same America who just anointed Biden as the leader? The same America who is more in debt than GDP and growing the debt faster than ever? The same America who just let in 2,000,000 unvetted illegals cross the southern border? The same America where wokism is the new fad?
Just pray Trump gets re-elected or at least some one who thinks MAGA like him, because right now America is not going in the right direction. We need a nuclear conflagaration over THE MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY in Europe like we need a hole in the head. May be you want Hunter Biden re-employed by Burisma.
President Trump evidently doesn’t see things as you do, but then he was only the Commander in Chief with the nuclear codes.
Whether he read that book or not, he knows that we do not submit and surrender to threats.
I think I read it ~40 years ago.
It must not have made much of an impression on me, I often retain a couple of sentences I like.
You sound like you’re crying.
Some of US never doubted it. I feel that I would have a greater ability to survive Global Thermonuclear War than most, considering the large cohort of girly men that would shoot themselves at the slightest indication of it happening.
It's only on my most cynical days that I might relish the day I see everything hit the fan and I can attempt to test my survival skills with my Bible, my Foxfire Books and my Quick Reference Handbook Set of Basic Knowledge and Modern Technology.
>> After seeing stories like these I’m almost inclined to prefer that the world end in a nuclear conflagration.
I hear you.
One other possible outcome has crossed my mind: several large blue coastal US cities (plus Chicago) are destroyed in a nuclear exchange. Flyover country is left mostly functional; not unscathed, but functional. Rudy Texeira is forced to write a new book, “The Emerging Conservative Majority”.
If you know what I mean (and I think you do).
Uh... I hope you live in flyover America, as do I, rather than one of those aforementioned coastal cities, FRiend. ;-)
If it is not the true apocalypse and just Mankind being Mankind, I would choose to survive and live in the aftermath. As I am near Seventy I don't expect that to happen, but that is what I believe and how I feel.
>> I still have it new in the box.
After the nuclear exchange, it’ll be worth a lot on ebay!
Oh wait...
>> I think we are closer to nuclear war since Biden took office.
That, or closer to nuclear extortion. Not sure which. Jill could go either way. ;-)
Restarting the Cold War that Reagan won so long ago.
Luckily, the Democrats are uniting China, Russia and Iran. So we don't have to choose.
I agree we don’t submit and surrender to threats. THat is why in my comment #59 I point out that we have serious nukes on board our major submarines. Thus the US land mass could be terribly wounded, but the submarines can still launch retribution on the Russians.
For the uninitiated, that means the US tracked all nuclear threats, and if it saw preparations for a surprise attack, would launch first. No point in nuking empty silos. Since there would never be another chance, the targeting was quite inclusive, down to towns with police stations.
The USSR knew it, even if the man in the street, here, did not.
Pantex, in Amarillo, was churning out war heads for years. Up to an estimated 5,000, not including such toys as atomic torpedoes and depth charges.
Public estimates indicate that the USSR and China had only about half that number, and worse, US targeting abilities were orders of magnitude past USSR capabilities. To compensate for the inaccuracy, the Russians went for larger yields, but when they would crunch the numbers, it always came out a net loss. They bankrupted themselves trying to attain something close to parity.
Even with all the cutbacks, (Atomics are notoriously difficult to keep in long term storage), there are about 3,000 in the US inventory.
Medeved is bloviating. Although, I am far from sure Obama would not rather be king of a wasteland, as long as he could wear a crown.
Then I am confused about the meaning of your posts and their purpose.
The book was printed in 1957 when I was 19. I probably read it a few years later. What I remember is that there was a massive radioactive cloud over the Northern Hemisphere that was drifting slowly south. The book takes place in Australia where people have maybe a year to live. I don’t remember such a discussion, but presumable Africa, India, and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere will also die. The book ends with everyone dying or committing suicide. It was a very heavy book to be reading just as I was moving out into life.
You have to look at the number of warheads; where they are detonated; if they are airbursts (less fallout) or ground (more fallout); and then the number of fires and what size particles the smoke has, from the heavily radioactive areas:
and how high in the atmosphere the smoke rises...
Then look at prevailing winds, and any storms which would wash radioactivity away. There is comparatively little crossing the Equator; and deep water is a fantastic radiation shield.
“Here is Trump on these endless nuke threats from Russia...”
I’m disappointed in a few areas with Trump. But then he wasn’t exactly surrounded with intelligence or law enforcement services he could trust. Even Pompeo and the State Dept. His Chief of Staffs? Mad Dog Mattis? Sheesh. Pence and his people??? How many Republicans in leadership positions were helping him out for real? He couldn’t even come up with $5 Billion for a wall, while Biden has spent that much out of the Whitehouse funds over to Ukraine without a whimper.
Then there’s this: The guy that probably invented the Russia Russia Russia crap just got his reward:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/climate/john-podesta-climate-biden.html
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