Who Gets to Push the Nuclear Button?

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

William Binney is the former National Security Agency (NSA) official who created NSA’s mass surveillance program for digital information. He says that if the Russian government had conspired with Trump, hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computer, or in any way influenced the outcome of the last US presidential election, the National Security Agency would have the digital evidence. The fact that we have been listening to the unsubstantiated charges that comprise “Russiagate” for more than one year without being presented with a scrap of evidence is complete proof that Russiagate is entirely fake news.

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The fake news originated with CIA director John Brennan and FBI director Comey conspiring with the DNC in an effort to discredit and unseat President Trump and at a minimum prevent him from damaging the vast power and profit of the military/security complex by normalizing relations with Russia.

Consider what this means. The directors of the CIA and FBI made up a totally false story about a newly elected President and fed the lies to the presstitutes and Congress. The presstitutes never asked for a drop of evidence and enlarged the Brennan/Comey lie with a claim that all 17 US intelligence agencies had concluded that Russia had interfered. In actual fact, a handful of carefully selected people in three of the agencies had prepared, perhaps under duress, a conditional report that had no evidence behind it.

That it was fake news created to control President Trump was completely obvious, but corrupt security officials, corrupt senators and representatives, a corrupt DNC, and corrupt media used constant repetition to turn a lie into truth.

Here is Binney: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/12/creator-nsas-global-surveillance-system-calls-b-s-russian-hacking-report.html
See also: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/11/17/capitalism-collapsing-from-inequality-blame-russia.html

Having shoved Trump into the militarist camp, his enemies have turned on Trump as an unstable, volatile person who might push the button. Senator Bob Corker (R, TN) and Senator Chris Murphy (D,CT) are using the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to portray President Trump as a quixotic person who shouldn’t have his finger on the nuclear button. We have gone full circle, from Trump who wants to defuse nuclear tensions to Trump who might push the button.

If Senators Corker and Murphy were really concerned and not just orchestrating a new way to attack Trump, they would bring out the fact that Russiagate is a hoax that has made nuclear war more likely. As I have pointed out, Washington has convinced Moscow that Washington is planning a surprise nuclear attack on Russia and also collecting Russian DNA for a tailored Russian-specific bio-weapon. I cannot think of anything more likely to trigger nuclear war than the escalated tensions that Russiagate is preventing Trump from reducing. See: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/11/13/will-america-survive-washington-paul-craig-roberts/

For the record, contrary to the erroneous assertions of “nuclear experts,” the president cannot simply order a nuclear attack. The president either has to accept a Joint Chiefs war plan and order a launch when the military is ready or he has to accept the advice of his national security adviser to launch in retaliation for incoming enemy ICBMs. If a president simply ordered a nuclear strike, he would be ignored.

If it is not the president who must make the nuclear decision, who is it to be? The military? We should be thankful that that was not the case when the Joint Chiefs pressured President John F. Kennedy to approve a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.

The question who should have launch authority is an easy one to answer. No one.

If nuclear missiles are incoming, launching does not protect you. You are already going to be destroyed. Why destroy the other side of the world in an act of revenge. It is pointless.

There is no such thing as a preemptive strike that prevents retaliation.

Nuclear war is an act of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

The purpose of diplomacy is to prevent war. However, ever since the Clinton regime attacked Serbia, US diplomacy has been used to cause wars. During the 16-years of George W. Bush and Obama the US destroyed in whole or part seven countries, killing and maiming millions of peoples and producing millions of refugees. Not a single one of these wars was justified. Everyone of these wars was based in lies. The last US government that showed any respect at all for truth was the George H. W. Bush administration.

Before launching each of these acts of unprovoked aggression, Washington demonized the leader of the country. To get rid of one person, Washington did not flinch at murdering large numbers of people and destroying the infrastructure of the country. This tells you that Washington has no morality. None. Zilch. Therefore, Washington is capable of launching a preemptive nuclear strike. Back when nuclear weapons were puny by today’s standards, Washington nuked two Japanese cities while Japan was trying to surrender. That was in 1945, a lifetime ago. Whatever bits of morality that still existed then are long gone.

Today a CNN editor-at-large named Chris Cillizza, published online an article titled, “There’s a massive moral vacuum in the country right now.” At last, I thought, a presstitute has realized that Washington’s constant nuclear threats against other countries shows a complete disrespect for the life of the planet and indicates a moral vacuum. But no, the presstitute is talking about sexual harassment, especially that of Roy Moore in the 1970s. And it is all Trump’s fault. How can he lead when he harasses women himself? http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/roy-moore-mcconnell-trump/index.html

President Trump intended to normalize relations with the other major nuclear power. He has been prevented from doing so by the military/security complex, the DNC, and the presstitutes.

Cillizza says sexual harassment is a “very big” consequence of Trump’s election. I am left wondering if CNN’s editor-at-large considers nuclear war to be as serious as sexual harassment.

 

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steve
steve

I love PCR but the line about George H. Bush being the last President to respect the truth is a screamer. That sack of shit is a NWO clown, first class.

Zarathustra

I think he meant his administration, not necessarily Bush himself. I agree with you about HW Bush.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

This is why I never understood “drain the swamp” to mean anything as mundane as ending garden-variety corruption. The Swamp is the Deep State, but they’re not particularly deep. They’re right out in the open and their enemy is us. The Las Vegas shootings were part of their gun grab because an armed American citizenry impedes their goal of world government. Next up will be the Sunni/Israel/US invasion of Lebanon, en route to Damascus. Iran will back Hezbollah, Russia will side with Iran and the Alawites in Syria. The globalists’ long game is to weaken Russia for eventual invasion. The neocons hate Orthodox Russia more than anything else, and they control the CIA and NSA.

I forgot to put (( )) around neocons, but I think that’s understood.

Celtic Tiger

I suggest that the term “neo-conservative” be replaced by “neo-imperialist”. That’s what they really are.

anarchyst
anarchyst

It is easy to see the pervasiveness of Israel’s Mossad (if one knows where to look), arguably the most effective spy agency on the planet, please read “By Way of Deception” by Viktor Ostrowsky. From the Lavon affair (a “false flag” operation designed to draw the USA into a war with Egypt by making it appear that Arabs bombed the U S interests section–a planted bomb exploded prematurely, exposing this as a Israeli planned and executed “incident”) to the deliberate attack on the USS Liberty (NOT “misidentification”, but another attempt to draw the USA into a war with Egypt and to hide the deliberate massacre of civilians in an Egyptian city, Deir Yassin), to Jonathon Pollard and NSA spying utilizing a company named Amdocs (which handles all US telephone billing records), you will find that Israel looks out for Israel’s interests ONLY. Normally, there is nothing wrong with a country looking out after it’s own interests, BUT Israel has a nasty habit of spying (and setting up) it’s “friends”.

Who the hell died and appointed Israel the “master” of the middle east?? Iran (and all other middle-eastern countries) KNOWS that any nuclear “discharge” would affect the whole middle east . . . Any country that possesses nukes is not stupid . . . Israel has over a hundred nukes, manufactured with stolen American classified technology, refuses inspections of its nuclear facilities and is, in general, a “pain in the ass” to the rest of the world, along with (blackmailed) “big brother” United States of America.

It is no secret that the U S State Department is infested with dual-nationality Israeli-Americans who form (and foment) the bulk of our neocon “foreign policy” straight from Tel Aviv. In fact there are 40 or so congressmen and senators with dual-nationality “ties” to Israel.

Most people are unaware that Israel holds a “Damocles sword” over the world. Any attack on Israel will be met with a nuclear device being detonated in a city of Israel’s choosing. Israel calls this the “Samson option” and is very real.

Israel refuses to abide by IAEA guidelines concerning its nukes as its nukes are already distributed around the world. Israel would not be able to produce all of them as most of them are not in Israel, proper. No delivery systems are needed as Israel’s nukes are already “in place”. Look for another “false flag” operation with the blame being put on Iran. You can bet that some Iranian passports will be found in the rubble.

There are forty or so congressmen, senators and high-level policy “wonks” infecting the U S government who hold “dual citizenship” with Israel. Such dual citizenship must be strictly prohibited. Those holding dual citizenship must be required to renounce said foreign citizenship. Refusal to do so should result in immediate deportation with loss of American citizenship. Present and former holders of dual citizenship should not be allowed to serve in any American governmental capacity.

IndenturedServant

“Who Gets to Push the Nuclear Button?”

Fuckin’ A! Sign me up! I’ll volunteer to push the button. No charge! Hell, I’ll even pay for the privilege!

Humans have jumped the proverbial shark. It’s time!

I know I sound a bit eager but I look at it as the humanitarian thing to do to prevent even more suffering. We need to design a nuke that is species specific though. I really wouldn’t want to wipe out all the bacteria, viruses, insects, invertebrates, birds, reptiles, etc.

Overthecliff

POTUS SHOULD fire any military officer who hints at insubordination. He should also charge them with criminal misconduct by encouraging others to disobey lawful orders. These arrogant military types need to be purged and replaced by people who respect the constitution.

SSS

There are two National Command Authorities, the President and Secretary of Defense. Just two. The President has the authority to order a nuclear strike, but the Secretary of Defense must authenticate the President’s order.

For those worried about Trump’s state of mind, Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis stands in his way. Now, go to bed and have a good night’s sleep. And don’t worry about that “Mad Dog” label I threw in just for fun. Sleep tight. Heh.

starfcker

“If nuclear missiles are incoming, launching does not protect you. You are already going to be destroyed. Why destroy the other side of the world in an act of revenge. It is pointless”. More proof why I thank God that PCR is in charge of nothing. My fellow Americans, now lay down and die.

Stucky

You’re absolutely correct. Pure idiocy!! If an nuke armed enemy state knows that the USA will just say “fuckit” if we are attacked first … then it’s just a matter of time until we ARE attacked. While MAD is an insane doctrine, I don’t see any other realistic choices.

Except for that dumb paragraph, I see no fault in the rest of his article.

Stucky

SSS

Aren’t nuke sub commanders free to launch nukes under certain conditions?

The ‘Hunt for Red October’ scenario. All communication with the outside world is cut off … Commander believes the USA is under nuke attack … does he launch, or not?

Hey, come back Monday …. the CIA gets prominent mention in my pictorial essay. You’re gonna love it.

SSS

To answer your question, Sticky, no, nuke sub commanders have no such authorization to unilaterally launch SLBMs. A verified launch code must be entered into the sequence before the launch officers can “press the button.” No code, no launch. The sub commander’s role in such a process is to ensure the sub is capable of safely launching the missiles and the launch procedures are meticulously followed.

Look forward to your expected hit job on the CIA.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Where the hell does Stucky find the time?

TampaRed
TampaRed

The MRS.—MultipleRoboticStuckys,as in trained girlfriends–

Dan

Roberts is wrong about retaliation strike being “pointless.” No, it’s not. Firstly, he’s assuming
the enemy’s nukes will work flawlessly and wipe everybody out. Big assumption right there.
So retaliation ONLY makes sense. And even if it were to kill everybody, the whole point of mutually assured destruction is to stop a strike in the first place. You violate that rule,
you pay the price. That’s makes sense RIGHT THERE. Revenge for your stupid act.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Not as much revenge as consequences.

When you stick your hand if a fire, it isn’t seeking revenge when it burns you.

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