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An Uncomfortable Conversation about Nukes

Posted by Charlie Kilo on July 17th, 2008

What are the Powers That Be planning:

Why are Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, William Perry, and Sam Nunn writing opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons? Keep in mind, these four people are not just major defense hawks. People like Kissinger and Nunn helped push through the single most dangerous and destabilizing innovation in nuclear weaponry, the arming of missiles with multiple warheads. All four have supported every conflict the United States has engaged in since World War II, all have enthusiastically supported nuclear weapons, and none has suddenly gone kumbaya on us.

Pentagon sees Russia strengthening nuclear arsenal

Posted by Charlie Kilo on June 10th, 2008

Welcome to Cold War II:

Russia appears focused on strengthening its nuclear capabilities rather than building up its regular armed forces, which makes maintaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal increasingly important, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday.

The Pentagon chief, speaking to Air Force officers in Virginia, said America’s need for nuclear weapons to deter potential enemies from striking would grow in the future.

While that is partly due to the risk that nuclear weapons will end up in the hands of anti-American groups or states, such as Iran, it is also related to Russia’s plans to build its nuclear capabilities, Gates said.

“It seems clear that the Russians are focused as they look to the future more on strengthening their nuclear capabilities,” he told reporters after his visit to Langley.

“So to the extent that they rely more and more on their nuclear capabilities as opposed to what historically has been a huge Russian conventional military capability, it seems to me that it underscores the importance of our sustaining a valid nuclear deterrent, a modern nuclear deterrent.”

Clinton would “obliterate” Iran

Posted by patriot on April 22nd, 2008

Watch the video.

Defiant Iran announces 6,000 new uranium centrifuges

Posted by patriot on April 8th, 2008

Iran gives the middle finger to the USA and proceeds with its nuclear development:

Iran on Tuesday said it had started work to install thousands of new centrifuges to enrich uranium at its main nuclear plant, angering world powers who fear Tehran wants to develop an atomic weapon.

“Today, the phase for installing 6,000 new centrifuges at the facility in Natanz has started,” the state broadcasting website quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying at the atomic plant.

His announcement came as Iran marked its “national day of nuclear technology” on the second anniversary of its first production of uranium sufficiently enriched to make atomic fuel.

North and South Korea playing with fire

Posted by patriot on March 30th, 2008

The AP reports a tense exchange between North and South Korea:

North Korea threatened South Korea with destruction Sunday after Seoul’s top military officer said he would consider attacking the communist nation if it tried to carry out a nuclear attack.

A man in traditional dress at a display of North and South Korean missiles at Seoul’s Korea War Memorial Museum.

The statement from North Korea’s official news agency marked the third straight day of bellicose rhetoric from the North, which is angry over the harsher line the South’s new president has taken against the country since assuming office last month.

“Our military will not sit idle until warmongers launch a pre-emptive strike,” said an unidentified KCNA military commentator. “Everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, if our advanced pre-emptive strike once begins.”

Prepping a nuclear attack on Iran?

Posted by patriot on March 30th, 2008

The Lew Rockwell blog has a post about some stories going around about a possible nuclear attack on Iran:

A couple of news sites I have never heard of are quoting the Jeddah-based Saudi newspaper Okaz (owner of the Saudi Gazette, a former employer) that Saudi Arabia’s governing Shura Council has approved plans to deal with fallout from a U.S. nuclear attack on Iran.

The post has two clips of news articles/posts worth reading. Check it out.

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