Zero Hedge: Mapping The World's Atomic Inventory
As we’ve noted on a number of occasions recently, Moscow isn’t prone to backing down when it comes to exchanging geopolitical threats. In fact, the Kremlin seems intent on ratcheting up the rhetoric in the face of what many perceive to be Western aggression in the form of NATO military exercises along the Russian border. Of course Washinton isn't exactly helping the stituation by voting to arm Kiev with offensive military capabilities, and recent geopolitical events certainly seem to indicate that if anyone is isolated on the world stage, it's Washington, not Moscow.
Meanwhile, as the following from the WSJ shows, Russia is intent on "rattling the nuclear sabre":
WNU Editor: All it takes is one small mistake or misunderstanding .... and what could follow would make our worst nightmares come true.
2 comments:
I read a sci-fi book published around 1990s.
The world governments cooperate to build an interstellar colony ship.
The colonists get on board and before they reach Jupiter and decide to turn around. The on board Hal like supercomputer won't let them. Finally the computer get them to use the telescope and look back to earth. It is glowing. So they supercomputer (Jason?) has accomplished its mission in suppressing the course change, but the colonists still have it out for the computer.
The setting was that a whole bunch if 2nd tier countries also get nukes (like Pakistan). They also have false launch alerts. they are also in the quandary of use or lose it.
So in a game of nerves with and after several false alerts missiles start flying. Once the 2nd tier is in, the big boys are in just like WW1.
That stupid book seems much more plausible today with Iran having a nuke and Saudi Arabia having bought one from Pakistan.
Kerry walked in Nuclear Freeze protest n the early 1980s. Now he is asking high high to jump.
I worked with an Englishman who came over to Canada in the early 1970's. He told me that at that time if Russia launched a nuke heading towards England they had, at maximum, 15 minutes before it would hit. You couldn't accomplish much in that 15 minutes so you might as well screw that secretary you've been dreaming about because there would be no consequences for that act once the bomb hit. That gave rise to an expression regarding ugly or otherwise distasteful women. "I wouldn't screw her if the 15 minute warning sounded".
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