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May 31, 2014 05:39:03   #
Patty
 
The US Army in partner with NATO are not canceling a July military drill in Ukraine despite the present tension inside the nation. Planning for Rapid Trident 2014, a huge USAREUR managed multinational exercise, is still going to take place, according to a US Air Force spokesman.
This march towards encompassing Russia's western border, the Asian Pivot to encircle China and the already encirclement of Iran by the US is inviting nuclear war and must be stopped.
Every Military and higher up politician should be mandated to read and inform themselves of the fact that a nuclear strike whether pre emptive or retaliatory would mean the destruction of all human and most animal life on this planet.
"Beginning in 2006, several of the world’s leading climatologists (at Rutgers, UCLA, John Hopkins University, and the University of Colorado-Boulder) published a series of studies that evaluated the long-term environmental consequences of a nuclear war, including baseline scenarios fought with merely 1% of the explosive power in the US and/or Russian launch-ready nuclear arsenals. They concluded that the consequences of even a “small” nuclear war would include catastrophic disruptions of global climate[i] and massive destruction of Earth’s protective ozone layer[ii]. These and more recent studies predict that global agriculture would be so negatively affected by such a war, a global famine would result, which would cause up to 2 billion people to starve to death."
This study only done by using 1% of US/ RU nuclear capability.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"nuclear firestorms would produce millions of tons of smoke, which would rise above cloud level and form a global stratospheric smoke layer that would rapidly encircle the Earth. The smoke layer would remain for at least a decade, and it would act to destroy the protective ozone layer (vastly increasing the UV-B reaching Earth[vii]) as well as block warming sunlight, thus creating Ice Age weather conditions that would last 10 years or longer. "
US-Russian nuclear war, temperatures in the central US and Eurasia would fall below freezing every day for one to three years; the intense cold would completely eliminate growing seasons for a decade or longer. No crops could be grown, leading to a famine that would k**l most humans and large animal populations.
nuclear detonations would destroy the integrated circuits in all modern electronic devices[viii], including those in commercial nuclear power plants. Every nuclear reactor would almost instantly meltdown; every nuclear spent fuel pool (which contain many times more radioactivity than found in the reactors) would boil-off, releasing vast amounts of long-lived radioactivity. The fallout would make most of the US and Europe uninhabitable. Of course, the survivors of the nuclear war would be starving to death anyway.
In 2010 the Bush administration modified US strategic doctrine from a retaliatory role to permit preemptive nuclear attack, and Counterforce doctrine[x] – used by both the US and Russian military – emphasizes the need for preemptive strikes once nuclear war begins. Both sides would be under immense pressure to launch a preemptive nuclear first-strike once military hostilities had commenced, especially if nuclear weapons had already been used on the battlefield.
Yet top political leaders and policymakers of both the US and Russia seem to be unaware that their launch-ready nuclear weapons represent a self-destruct mechanism for the human race. For example, in 2010, I was able to publicly question the chief negotiators of the New START treaty, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov and (then) US Assistant Secretary of State, Rose Gottemoeller, during their joint briefing at the UN (during the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference). I asked them if they were familiar with the recent peer-reviewed studies that predicted the detonation of less than 1% of the explosive power contained in the operational and deployed U.S. and Russian nuclear forces would cause catastrophic changes in the global climate, and that a nuclear war fought with their strategic nuclear weapons would k**l most people on Earth. They both answered “no.”

More recently, on April 20, 2014, I asked the same question and received the same answer from the US officials sent to brief representatives of the NGOS at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting at the UN. None of the US officials at the briefing were aware of the studies. Those present included top officials of the National Security Council.

It is frightening that President Obama and his administration appear unaware that the world’s leading scientists have for years predicted that a nuclear war fought with the US and/or Russian strategic nuclear arsenal means the end of human history. Do they not know of the existential threat these arsenals pose to the human race . . . or do they choose to remain silent because this fact doesn’t fit into their official narratives? We hear only about terrorist threats that could destroy a city with an atomic bomb, while the threat of human extinction from nuclear war is never mentioned – even when the US and Russia are each running huge nuclear war games in pr********n for a US-Russian war.

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May 31, 2014 06:12:17   #
Kevyn
 
We have nothing to worry about, Rush Limbaugh told us that man is not capable of changing the climate, anything else you hear from the liberal main stream media is just a load of crap. We have the best nuclear weapons in the world and it is about time that president Ohbummer sticks his size 12 boot squair in Putins ass! We can incinerate Russia from the Urals to the Pacific and it wont effect us one bit. What is it with this c****e anti war stuff Patty? why do you h**e America so much?

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May 31, 2014 06:20:33   #
Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan
 
Kevyn wrote:
We have nothing to worry about, Rush Limbaugh told us that man is not capable of changing the climate, anything else you hear from the liberal main stream media is just a load of crap. We have the best nuclear weapons in the world and it is about time that president Ohbummer sticks his size 12 boot squair in Putins ass! We can incinerate Russia from the Urals to the Pacific and it wont effect us one bit. What is it with this c****e anti war stuff Patty? why do you h**e America so much?


Good point Kev :thumbup: :thumbup:

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May 31, 2014 06:20:51   #
Patty
 
I can spot someone who has never done much traveling as they seem to not understand how small this world is.
Nuclear war would effect us by extinction even with only 1% of our arsenal used same as Russia.
http://www.nucleardarkness.org/index2.php

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May 31, 2014 07:06:19   #
Kevyn
 
Patty wrote:
I can spot someone who has never done much traveling as they seem to not understand how small this world is.
Nuclear war would effect us by extinction even with only 1% of our arsenal used same as Russia.
http://www.nucleardarkness.org/index2.php


Why the hell would a person travel? there is nothing worth seeing that you can't see right here in west Texas. And who do you think you are Miss high and mighty to question the word of Rush Limbaugh? If Rush says man can't effect the climate that's good enough for me. Rush gives us the t***h without filtering like the lame stream media and all of those lefty scientists. Putin had best be shaking in his boots, it is only a matter of time until we blast Russia into a parking lot! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!

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May 31, 2014 07:54:14   #
stan3186
 
Kevyn wrote:
Why the hell would a person travel? there is nothing worth seeing that you can't see right here in west Texas. And who do you think you are Miss high and mighty to question the word of Rush Limbaugh? If Rush says man can't effect the climate that's good enough for me. Rush gives us the t***h without filtering like the lame stream media and all of those lefty scientists. Putin had best be shaking in his boots, it is only a matter of time until we blast Russia into a parking lot! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!
Why the hell would a person travel? there is nothi... (show quote)


I truly hope you are being sarcastic. Surely no one is that ignorant. I know you are about as liberal as they come so I'm guess that you are just being facetious.

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May 31, 2014 08:29:07   #
Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan
 
Patty wrote:
I can spot someone who has never done much traveling as they seem to not understand how small this world is.
Nuclear war would effect us by extinction even with only 1% of our arsenal used same as Russia.
http://www.nucleardarkness.org/index2.php


...I can spot a "busy-body" a hundred miles away, that's traveled too much and thinks too little. How many conflicts does America need to "nose" into...you want to write the check, than state that in your taxes. I am tired of hearing about "our" involvement. If we want Russia to behave: "guns and boots" diplomacy is as old fashioned as Unions have become.

You do not think too hard about these issues, you repeat the same tactics that don't work anymore. How 'bout the Ukraine shut down ports and oil fields instead. They are doing a pretty good job of handling events themselves. Poking this "bear" is a waste of US sources and will only result in other conflicts getting out of control.

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May 31, 2014 08:45:33   #
Patty
 
First, Your mastery of the English language is astonishing.
"You do not think too hard about these issues"
Second I agree, we have a history of war that doesnt work.
FROM WOUNDED KNEE TO LIBYA:

A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS

by Dr. Zoltan Grossman

The following is a partial list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 2011.
COUNTRY OR STATE Dates of intervention Forces Comments
SOUTH DAKOTA 1890 (-?) Troops 300 Lakota Indians massacred at Wounded Knee.
ARGENTINA 1890 Troops Buenos Aires interests protected.
CHILE 1891 Troops Marines clash with nationalist rebels.
HAITI 1891 Troops Black revolt on Navassa defeated.
IDAHO 1892 Troops Army suppresses silver miners' strike.
HAWAII 1893 (-?) Naval, troops Independent kingdom o*******wn, annexed.
CHICAGO 1894 Troops Breaking of rail strike, 34 k**led.
NICARAGUA 1894 Troops Month-long occupation of Bluefields.
CHINA 1894-95 Naval, troops Marines land in Sino-Japanese War
KOREA 1894-96 Troops Marines kept in Seoul during war.
PANAMA 1895 Troops, naval Marines land in Colombian province.
NICARAGUA 1896 Troops Marines land in port of Corinto.
CHINA 1898-1900 Troops Boxer R*******n fought by foreign armies.
PHILIPPINES 1898-1910 (-?) Naval, troops Seized from Spain, k**led 600,000 Filipinos
CUBA 1898-1902 (-?) Naval, troops Seized from Spain, still hold Navy base.
PUERTO RICO 1898 (-?) Naval, troops Seized from Spain, occupation continues.
GUAM 1898 (-?) Naval, troops Seized from Spain, still use as base.
MINNESOTA 1898 (-?) Troops Army battles Chippewa at L***h Lake.
NICARAGUA 1898 Troops Marines land at port of San Juan del Sur.
SAMOA 1899 (-?) Troops Battle over succession to throne.
NICARAGUA 1899 Troops Marines land at port of Bluefields.
IDAHO 1899-1901 Troops Army occupies Coeur d'Alene mining region.
OKLAHOMA 1901 Troops Army battles Creek Indian revolt.
PANAMA 1901-14 Naval, troops Broke off from Colombia 1903, annexed Canal Zone; Opened canal 1914.
HONDURAS 1903 Troops Marines intervene in revolution.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1903-04 Troops U.S. interests protected in Revolution.
KOREA 1904-05 Troops Marines land in Russo-Japanese War.
CUBA 1906-09 Troops Marines land in democratic e******n.
NICARAGUA 1907 Troops "Dollar Diplomacy" protectorate set up.
HONDURAS 1907 Troops Marines land during war with Nicaragua
PANAMA 1908 Troops Marines intervene in e******n contest.
NICARAGUA 1910 Troops Marines land in Bluefields and Corinto.
HONDURAS 1911 Troops U.S. interests protected in civil war.
CHINA 1911-41 Naval, troops Continuous occupation with flare-ups.
CUBA 1912 Troops U.S. interests protected in civil war.
PANAMA 1912 Troops Marines land during heated e******n.
HONDURAS 1912 Troops Marines protect U.S. economic interests.
NICARAGUA 1912-33 Troops, bombing 10-year occupation, fought guerillas
MEXICO 1913 Naval Americans evacuated during revolution.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1914 Naval Fight with rebels over Santo Domingo.
COLORADO 1914 Troops Breaking of miners' strike by Army.
MEXICO 1914-18 Naval, troops Series of interventions against nationalists.
HAITI 1914-34 Troops, bombing 19-year occupation after revolts.
TEXAS 1915 Troops Federal soldiers crush "Plan of San Diego" Mexican-American r*******n
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1916-24 Troops 8-year Marine occupation.
CUBA 1917-33 Troops Military occupation, economic protectorate.
WORLD WAR I 1917-18 Naval, troops Ships sunk, fought Germany for 1 1/2 years.
RUSSIA 1918-22 Naval, troops Five landings to fight Bolsheviks
PANAMA 1918-20 Troops "Police duty" during unrest after e******ns.
HONDURAS 1919 Troops Marines land during e******n campaign.
YUGOSLAVIA 1919 Troops/Marines intervene for Italy against Serbs in Dalmatia.
GUATEMALA 1920 Troops 2-week intervention against unionists.
WEST VIRGINIA 1920-21 Troops, bombing Army intervenes against mineworkers.
TURKEY 1922 Troops Fought nationalists in Smyrna.
CHINA 1922-27 Naval, troops Deployment during nationalist revolt.

MEXICO

HONDURAS

1923

1924-25

Bombing

Troops

Airpower defends Calles from r*******n

Landed twice during e******n strife.

PANAMA 1925 Troops Marines suppress general strike.
CHINA 1927-34 Troops Marines stationed throughout the country.
EL SALVADOR 1932 Naval Warships send during Marti revolt.
WASHINGTON DC 1932 Troops Army stops WWI vet bonus protest.
WORLD WAR II 1941-45 Naval, troops, bombing, nuclear Hawaii bombed, fought Japan, Italy and Germay for 3 years; first nuclear war.
DETROIT 1943 Troops Army put down Black r*******n.
IRAN 1946 Nuclear threat Soviet troops told to leave north.
YUGOSLAVIA 1946 Nuclear threat, naval Response to shoot-down of US plane.
URUGUAY 1947 Nuclear threat Bombers deployed as show of strength.
GREECE 1947-49 Command operation U.S. directs extreme-right in civil war.
GERMANY 1948 Nuclear Threat Atomic-capable bombers guard Berlin Airlift.
CHINA 1948-49 Troops/Marines evacuate Americans before C*******t victory.
PHILIPPINES 1948-54 Command operation CIA directs war against Huk R*******n.
PUERTO RICO 1950 Command operation Independence r*******n crushed in Ponce.
KOREA 1951-53 (-?) Troops, naval, bombing , nuclear threats U.S./So. Korea fights China/No. Korea to stalemate; A-bomb threat in 1950, and against China in 1953. Still have bases.
IRAN 1953 Command Operation CIA o*******ws democracy, installs Shah.
VIETNAM 1954 Nuclear threat French offered bombs to use against seige.
GUATEMALA 1954 Command operation, bombing, nuclear threat CIA directs exile invasion after new gov't nationalized U.S. company lands; bombers based in Nicaragua.
EGYPT 1956 Nuclear threat, troops Soviets told to keep out of Suez crisis; Marines evacuate foreigners.
LEBANON l958 Troops, naval Army & Marine occupation against rebels.
IRAQ 1958 Nuclear threat Iraq warned against invading Kuwait.
CHINA l958 Nuclear threat China told not to move on Taiwan isles.
PANAMA 1958 Troops F**g protests erupt into confrontation.
VIETNAM l960-75 Troops, naval, bombing, nuclear threats Fought South Vietnam revolt & North Vietnam; one million k**led in longest U.S. war; atomic bomb threats in l968 and l969.
CUBA l961 Command operation CIA-directed exile invasion fails.
GERMANY l961 Nuclear threat Alert during Berlin Wall crisis.
LAOS 1962 Command operation Military buildup during guerrilla war.
CUBA l962 Nuclear threat, naval Blockade during missile crisis; near-war with Soviet Union.
IRAQ 1963 Command operation CIA organizes c**p that k**led president, brings Ba'ath Party to power, and Saddam Hussein back from exile to be head of the secret service.
PANAMA l964 Troops Panamanians shot for urging canal's return.
INDONESIA l965 Command operation Million k**led in CIA-assisted army c**p.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1965-66 Troops, bombing Army & Marines land during e******n campaign.
GUATEMALA l966-67 Command operation Green Berets intervene against rebels.
DETROIT l967 Troops Army battles African Americans, 43 k**led.
UNITED STATES l968 Troops After King is shot; over 21,000 soldiers in cities.
CAMBODIA l969-75 Bombing, troops, naval Up to 2 million k**led in decade of bombing, starvation, and political chaos.
OMAN l970 Command operation U.S. directs Iranian marine invasion.
LAOS l971-73 Command operation, bombing U.S. directs South Vietnamese invasion; "carpet-bombs" countryside.
SOUTH DAKOTA l973 Command operation Army directs Wounded Knee siege of Lakotas.
MIDEAST 1973 Nuclear threat World-wide alert during Mideast War.
CHILE 1973 Command operation CIA-backed c**p ousts elected marxist president.
CAMBODIA l975 Troops, bombing Gassing of captured ship Mayagüez, 28 troops die when copter shot down.
ANGOLA l976-92 Command operation CIA assists South African-backed rebels.
IRAN l980 Troops, nuclear threat, aborted bombing Raid to rescue Embassy hostages; 8 troops die in copter-plane crash. Soviets warned not to get involved in revolution.
LIBYA l981 Naval jets Two Libyan jets shot down in maneuvers.
EL SALVADOR l981-92 Command operation, troops Advisors, overflights aid anti-rebel war, soldiers briefly involved in hostage clash.
NICARAGUA l981-90 Command operation, naval CIA directs exile (Contra) invasions, plants harbor mines against revolution.
LEBANON l982-84 Naval, bombing, troops Marines expel PLO and back Phalangists, Navy bombs and shells Muslim positions. 241 Marines k**led when Shi'a rebel bombs barracks.
GRENADA l983-84 Troops, bombing Invasion four years after revolution.
HONDURAS l983-89 Troops Maneuvers help build bases near borders.
IRAN l984 Jets Two Iranian jets shot down over Persian Gulf.
LIBYA l986 Bombing, naval Air strikes to topple Qaddafi gov't.
BOLIVIA 1986 Troops Army assists raids on cocaine region.
IRAN l987-88 Naval, bombing US intervenes on side of Iraq in war, defending ref**gged tankers and shooting down civilian jet.
LIBYA 1989 Naval jets Two Libyan jets shot down.
VIRGIN ISLANDS 1989 Troops St. Croix Black unrest after storm.
PHILIPPINES 1989 Jets Air cover provided for government against c**p.
PANAMA 1989 (-?) Troops, bombing Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 soldiers, leaders arrested, 2000+ k**led.
LIBERIA 1990 Troops Foreigners evacuated during civil war.
SAUDI ARABIA 1990-91 Troops, jets Iraq countered after invading Kuwait. 540,000 troops also stationed in Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Israel.
IRAQ 1990-91 Bombing, troops, naval Blockade of Iraqi and Jordanian ports, air strikes; 200,000+ k**led in invasion of Iraq and Kuwait; large-scale destruction of Iraqi military.
KUWAIT 1991 Naval, bombing, troops Kuwait royal family returned to throne.
IRAQ 1991-2003 Bombing, naval No-fly zone over Kurdish north, Shiite south; constant air strikes and naval-enforced economic sanctions
LOS ANGELES 1992 Troops Army, Marines deployed against anti-police uprising.
SOMALIA 1992-94 Troops, naval, bombing U.S.-led United Nations occupation during civil war; raids against one Mogadishu faction.
YUGOSLAVIA 1992-94 Naval NATO blockade of Serbia and Montenegro.
BOSNIA 1993-? Jets, bombing No-fly zone patrolled in civil war; downed jets, bombed Serbs.
HAITI 1994 Troops, naval Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office three years after c**p.
ZAIRE (CONGO) 1996-97 Troops Troops at Rwandan Hutu refugee camps, in area where Congo revolution begins.
LIBERIA 1997 Troops Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners.
ALBANIA 1997 Troops Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners.
SUDAN 1998 Missiles Attack on pharmaceutical plant alleged to be "terrorist" nerve gas plant.
AFGHANISTAN 1998 Missiles Attack on former CIA training camps used by Islamic fundamentalist groups alleged to have attacked embassies.
IRAQ 1998 Bombing, Missiles Four days of intensive air strikes after weapons inspectors allege Iraqi obstructions.
YUGOSLAVIA 1999 Bombing, Missiles Heavy NATO air strikes after Serbia declines to withdraw from Kosovo. NATO occupation of Kosovo.
YEMEN 2000 Naval USS Cole, docked in Aden, bombed.
MACEDONIA 2001 Troops NATO forces deployed to move and disarm Albanian rebels.
UNITED STATES 2001 Jets, naval Reaction to hijacker attacks on New York, DC
AFGHANISTAN 2001-? Troops, bombing, missiles Massive U.S. mobilization to o*******w Taliban, hunt Al Qaeda fighters, install Karzai regime, and battle Taliban insurgency. More than 30,000 U.S. troops and numerous private security contractors carry our occupation.
YEMEN 2002 Missiles Predator drone missile attack on Al Qaeda, including a US citizen.
PHILIPPINES 2002-? Troops, naval Training mission for Philippine military fighting Abu Sayyaf rebels evolves into combat missions in Sulu Archipelago, west of Mindanao.
COLOMBIA 2003-? Troops US special forces sent to rebel zone to back up Colombian military protecting oil pipeline.
IRAQ 2003-? Troops, naval, bombing, missiles Saddam regime toppled in Baghdad. More than 250,000 U.S. personnel participate in invasion. US and UK forces occupy country and battle Sunni and Shi'ite insurgencies. More than 160,000 troops and numerous private contractors carry out occupation and build large permanent bases.
LIBERIA 2003 Troops Brief involvement in peacekeeping force as rebels drove out leader.
HAITI 2004-05 Troops, naval Marines & Army land after right-wing rebels oust elected President Aristide, who was advised to leave by Washington.
PAKISTAN 2005-? Missiles, bombing, covert operation CIA missile and air strikes and Special Forces raids on alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban refuge villages k**l multiple civilians. Drone attacks also on Pakistani Mehsud network.
SOMALIA 2006-? Missiles, naval, troops, command operation Special Forces advise Ethiopian invasion that topples Islamist government; AC-130 strikes, Cruise missile attacks and helicopter raids against Islamist rebels; naval blockade against "pirates" and insurgents.
SYRIA 2008 Troops Special Forces in helicopter raid 5 miles from Iraq k**l 8 Syrian civilians
YEMEN 2009-? Missiles, command operation Cruise missile attack on Al Qaeda k**ls 49 civilians; Yemeni military assaults on rebels
LIBYA 2011-? Bombing, missiles, command operation NATO coordinates air strikes and missile attacks against Qaddafi government during uprising by rebel army.


Dummy Boy wrote:
...I can spot a "busy-body" a hundred miles away, that's traveled too much and thinks too little. How many conflicts does America need to "nose" into...you want to write the check, than state that in your taxes. I am tired of hearing about "our" involvement. If we want Russia to behave: "guns and boots" diplomacy is as old fashioned as Unions have become.

You do not think too hard about these issues, you repeat the same tactics that don't work anymore. How 'bout the Ukraine shut down ports and oil fields instead. They are doing a pretty good job of handling events themselves. Poking this "bear" is a waste of US sources and will only result in other conflicts getting out of control.
...I can spot a "busy-body" a hundred mi... (show quote)

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May 31, 2014 09:12:44   #
Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI
 
[quote=Patty]The US Army in partner with NATO are not canceling a July military drill in Ukraine despite the present tension inside the nation. Planning for Rapid Trident 2014, a huge USAREUR managed multinational exercise, is still going to take place, according to a US Air Force spokesman.
This march towards encompassing Russia's western border, the Asian Pivot to encircle China and the already encirclement of Iran by the US is inviting nuclear war and must be stopped.
Every Military and higher up politician should be mandated to read and inform themselves of the fact that a nuclear strike whether pre emptive or retaliatory would mean the destruction of all human and most animal life on this planet.
"Beginning in 2006, several of the world’s leading climatologists (at Rutgers, UCLA, John Hopkins University, and the University of Colorado-Boulder) published a series of studies that evaluated the long-term environmental consequences of a nuclear war, including baseline scenarios fought with merely 1% of the explosive power in the US and/or Russian launch-ready nuclear arsenals. They concluded that the consequences of even a “small” nuclear war would include catastrophic disruptions of global climate[i] and massive destruction of Earth’s protective ozone layer[ii]. These and more recent studies predict that global agriculture would be so negatively affected by such a war, a global famine would result, which would cause up to 2 billion people to starve to death."
This study only done by using 1% of US/ RU nuclear capability.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"nuclear firestorms would produce millions of tons of smoke, which would rise above cloud level and form a global stratospheric smoke layer that would rapidly encircle the Earth. The smoke layer would remain for at least a decade, and it would act to destroy the protective ozone layer (vastly increasing the UV-B reaching Earth[vii]) as well as block warming sunlight, thus creating Ice Age weather conditions that would last 10 years or longer. "
US-Russian nuclear war, temperatures in the central US and Eurasia would fall below freezing every day for one to three years; the intense cold would completely eliminate growing seasons for a decade or longer. No crops could be grown, leading to a famine that would k**l most humans and large animal populations.
nuclear detonations would destroy the integrated circuits in all modern electronic devices[viii], including those in commercial nuclear power plants. Every nuclear reactor would almost instantly meltdown; every nuclear spent fuel pool (which contain many times more radioactivity than found in the reactors) would boil-off, releasing vast amounts of long-lived radioactivity. The fallout would make most of the US and Europe uninhabitable. Of course, the survivors of the nuclear war would be starving to death anyway.
In 2010 the Bush administration modified US strategic doctrine from a retaliatory role to permit preemptive nuclear attack, and Counterforce doctrine[x] – used by both the US and Russian military – emphasizes the need for preemptive strikes once nuclear war begins. Both sides would be under immense pressure to launch a preemptive nuclear first-strike once military hostilities had commenced, especially if nuclear weapons had already been used on the battlefield.
Yet top political leaders and policymakers of both the US and Russia seem to be unaware that their launch-ready nuclear weapons represent a self-destruct mechanism for the human race. For example, in 2010, I was able to publicly question the chief negotiators of the New START treaty, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov and (then) US Assistant Secretary of State, Rose Gottemoeller, during their joint briefing at the UN (during the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference). I asked them if they were familiar with the recent peer-reviewed studies that predicted the detonation of less than 1% of the explosive power contained in the operational and deployed U.S. and Russian nuclear forces would cause catastrophic changes in the global climate, and that a nuclear war fought with their strategic nuclear weapons would k**l most people on Earth. They both answered “no.”

More recently, on April 20, 2014, I asked the same question and received the same answer from the US officials sent to brief representatives of the NGOS at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting at the UN. None of the US officials at the briefing were aware of the studies. Those present included top officials of the National Security Council.

It is frightening that President Obama and his administration appear unaware that the world’s leading scientists have for years predicted that a nuclear war fought with the US and/or Russian strategic nuclear arsenal means the end of human history. Do they not know of the existential threat these arsenals pose to the human race . . . or do they choose to remain silent because this fact doesn’t fit into their official narratives? We hear only about terrorist threats that could destroy a city with an atomic bomb, while the threat of human extinction from nuclear war is never mentioned – even when the US and Russia are each running huge nuclear war games in pr********n for a US-Russian war.[/quote]

So just why is this any worse than most times in the last 60 years.

I only recall losing sleep over this issue once in those 60 years. Once in the 50's when the new alarm system went off in the middle of the night.

I am more concerned about the day to day damage that is being done to the planet, & my day to day living.

There is some thing that has stopped people from pushing the button to this point & will close out my days with getting a good nights sleep.

If you fear the worse you would do well to stop spreading Doom & Gloom & look to spreading peace.

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May 31, 2014 09:52:55   #
Patty
 
If you think things are the same now as they were in the mid 50's then there really is no hope for you. We now have a narcissistic madman occupying the WH.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/definition/CON-20025568
Floyd Brown wrote:
So just why is this any worse than most times in the last 60 years.

I only recall losing sleep over this issue once in those 60 years. Once in the 50's when the new alarm system went off in the middle of the night.

I am more concerned about the day to day damage that is being done to the planet, & my day to day living.

There is some thing that has stopped people from pushing the button to this point & will close out my days with getting a good nights sleep.

If you fear the worse you would do well to stop spreading Doom & Gloom & look to spreading peace.
So just why is this any worse than most times in t... (show quote)

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May 31, 2014 10:29:44   #
Monacall
 
Did you know that nothing is truly organic All of earth is contaminated by the use of nuclear weapons years and years ago. Right now our west coast is getting creamed by Japan's disaster a few years ago. So yeah go ahead US OR RUSSIA. Start a nuclear war. Sure as we are here today we will ALL BE GONE tomorrow.

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May 31, 2014 10:30:55   #
Patty
 
Monacall wrote:
Did you know that nothing is truly organic All of earth is contaminated by the use of nuclear weapons years and years ago. Right now our west coast is getting creamed by Japan's disaster a few years ago. So yeah go ahead US OR RUSSIA. Start a nuclear war. Sure as we are here today we will ALL BE GONE tomorrow.


:thumbup:

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May 31, 2014 10:44:15   #
stan3186
 
Monacall wrote:
Did you know that nothing is truly organic All of earth is contaminated by the use of nuclear weapons years and years ago. Right now our west coast is getting creamed by Japan's disaster a few years ago. So yeah go ahead US OR RUSSIA. Start a nuclear war. Sure as we are here today we will ALL BE GONE tomorrow.


I don't know that what you post is fact or not but it would not surprise me. But, we do need to try to avoid use of nuclear anything. I don't care about burning coal or other f****l f**ls so much as a nuclear meltdown which could destroy our world. Of course we need to avoid a nuclear war at all cost. After all, I'm just too damn old to hide under my desk like I was told to do when practicing for a nuclear war in the early 60's.

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May 31, 2014 10:52:56   #
Monacall
 
Your right I'm to old also. As for what I said earlier my 21 year old son told me that as I was explaining to him the organic beef I bought. It made sense true I don't know sorry if I said something wrong but it makes sense.
Your right about nuclear war. Obozo is heading us in that direction I'm afraid.

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May 31, 2014 10:57:11   #
Patty
 
Monacall wrote:
Your right I'm to old also. As for what I said earlier my 21 year old son told me that as I was explaining to him the organic beef I bought. It made sense true I don't know sorry if I said something wrong but it makes sense.
Your right about nuclear war. Obozo is heading us in that direction I'm afraid.


Gee does this remind you of someone?
Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity, or egotistic admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, that derive from arrogant p***e. The term originated with Narcissus in Greek mythology who fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water.

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