Guest Post by Dave DeCamp
President Biden has recognized the risk of nuclear war but continues to escalate against Moscow
A Swedish group that assesses catastrophic risks warned in its annual report this year that the risk of nuclear weapons use is higher today than at any point since the US dropped nuclear weapons on Japan in 1945, AFP reported on Tuesday.
Kennette Benedict, an advisor to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who led the report for the Global Challenges Foundation, said the risk of nuclear war was greater than during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
The report warned that an all-out nuclear exchange would send enough dust in the air to block sunlight resulting in “a period of chaos and violence, during which most of the surviving world population would die from hunger.”
President Biden acknowledged the risk back in October when he said the chances of nuclear “armageddon” are higher today than at any point since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Despite his recognition of the danger of his policy of supporting Ukraine against Russia, Biden continues to escalate US involvement in the war, and there is no end in sight to the fighting.
Ukraine’s war effort is entirely reliant on Western support, and the US is not just sending weapons but also providing training, intelligence, and other kinds of targeting support. According to recent media reports, the Pentagon now tacitly backs Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, and the CIA is directing sabotage operations inside Russia.
Russian officials have made clear that they believe they are not just fighting Ukrainian forces in the war but also the US and NATO. This means Russia has the pretext to launch strikes on the US and NATO, although there’s no sign that such a decision has been made.
If Russia eventually chooses to retaliate by using conventional weapons against NATO, the conflict could quickly spiral into nuclear war. If Moscow decides to use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, most experts believe it would lead to a nuclear exchange between the US and Russia.
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That’s a nonsensical claim. There was zero possibility of a nuclear war at the time of Hiroshima since no one else possessed nuclear weapons.
Who writes these things?
WWII went nuclear, what difference does it make if only one side had them or used them. The Atom was used as a weapon of war to kill people in mass without discretion. To the people of Japan it was a nuclear war.
carpet bombing became passe’
Try telling that to the folks that lived in North Vietnam … all of those B-52 pilots weren’t delivering the airmail …
My first thought when I read the title. If anything, the detonation by the Soviet Union of their first nuke would be a date to use as a reference point.
The USA was the ONLY one that dropped 2 bombs & nuked an already surrendered country. Vaporized, killed & maimed millions.
You are factually incorrect. They had not surrendered. In fact, many pockets of resistance remained even after Hirohito signed the official documents…in large part due to lack of lines of communication.
watch some Gilligan’s Island, FFS.
Technically they had not had their surrender accepted. Of course they had tried to surrender, wanted a conditional surrender that included keeping the emperor, even if only as a figurehead. But Truman and others rejected that, only to accept it in the end, after hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens were incinerated in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki…..and tens of thousands of additional US soldiers had also died in fighting that was unnecessary. But of course the money had been spent on the bombs, so they had to use them and show the Soviets the level of brutality they were willing to inflict. US soldier deaths were just another consequence of politics as always.
The dropping of the bombs had nothing to do with Japan. Japan had already made that decision and were eager to make peace with the US before the USSR were able to transport troops to the theater.
Japan was concerned any lands conquered by the USSR would be lost forever. The dropping of the bombs was to show the USSR that the US could and would use nuclear weapons in the event that the US and USSR went to war. After the USSR defeated Germany, the US feared the power of the USSR.
So…we’re past that whole “there’s no such thing as nuclear missiles” thing now? Does the Phrasing Committee know about this?
War could come as a result of a mishap, an accidental launch. It wouldn’t be the first time humanity stumbled into slaughter. But perhaps the last.
When the media and the official government spokesscum are done, it will APPEAR as though we “stumbled” into the slaughter, but it is all part of a careful plan.
Nukes. FFS.
Gotta keep that fear needle peg’d to ten. if only trump was here to save murkia
As long as President Putin limits his targeting to :Washington D.C. New York City (U.N); Brussels (NATO) and London (The little hats), the world will be much better off.
Sounds like Zelensky’s visit to Davos would make a great time to explore the options.
That’s the small-hat’s capitol, the City of London … not to be confused with the mass of humanity that lives in London …
Time to change the diapers.
All this NON STOP talk about nukes nooks nooks blah blah NUKES!! NUKES! is freaking me the fuck out.
I’m beginning to actual hate even the word. I hereby refuse to ever use that word again. I’m going with Instant Sunshine.
Here’s my suggestion. The day AFTER the USA!USA!USA! unleashes the first Instant Sunshine maker ……. go out and start killing politicians. . Local, city, county, state, or federal …. shoot the motherfuckers on sight. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE AT THAT POINT??? Nothing. And maybe Putin will see that we’re trying to help him out and he will spare raining a thousand Instant Sunshines on our asses. A world without politicians … almost worth it.
DEFINITELY would be worth it. FIFY