Comments on: US Must Plan for Nuke Wars

By: Marvella Buczynski

Marvella Buczynski — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:20:29 +0000

Wow! what an notion ! What a concept ! Attractive .. Incredible …

By: timothy

timothy — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:35:37 +0000

So the US has to prepare for nuclear war. In the first place the only country that will initiate a nuclear war is the US repeaUS not NK or Iran or even China.
The problem is the US is using nuclear war as a pretext to destroy these countries in the name of defending freedom and democracy.
But the US cannot expect to be immune from retaliation if it attacks these countries.
Yes Iraq is defenceless and unable to hurt the US but not the Chinese.

By: William C.

William C. — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:03:39 +0000

Best quote of 2009…

Honestly nukes aren’t going away anytime soon, get used to it.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:47:36 +0000

The scale that exists today? Nuclear weapons have gotten smaller since in yield since the cold war. We no longer need 10mt nuclear devices to accomplish our strategic goals.

By: roland

roland — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:18:02 +0000

Also in the event a nuclear war will happen and pray this will not happen, how will the government protect its population from a nuclear attack? Will the Missle shield protect us 100% from a nuclear attack? Maybe we need to construct an underground — nuclear proof for each state beforfe it happens.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:56:25 +0000

go back to your cave hippie

By: roland

roland — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:06:59 +0000

This is dangerous. Iran and its allies could be unstopable from creating and firing a Nuclear weapon on another country. And it could be dangerous to the infrastructure of earth. It could be the start of WWIII, a nuclear war or the end of this world. I pray this event will not happen.

By: Tom Kerr

Tom Kerr — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:55:58 +0000

Also hate to break it to you but U.S. strategic systems are HARDENED AGIANST EMP.

By: Tom Kerr

Tom Kerr — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:51:40 +0000

do you really think U.S. nuke subs would just sit back? the subs alone have the power to take out around 4032 cities. that’s using all 14 missile subs we currently have (we did have 18 subs) if they all carry the trident 2 with 12 mirv warheads on each missile. that many nukes going off along with what the enemy used will pretty much poison the earth with lethal radiation. In other words extinction level event.……

By: Tom Kerr

Tom Kerr — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:36:19 +0000

Don’t kid yourself about Russia not being a threat still. Russia has always loved authoritarian leaders. And authoritarians have a tendency to be very unpredictable and feed on nationalistic pride. And Don’t count on the smaller countries giving up their nukes. To them having Nukes gives them protection from the U.S. or their neighbors.

By: Tom Kerr

Tom Kerr — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:28:27 +0000

While civilians communication systems would be heavily effected. U.S. strategic systems are hardened against EMP

By: ron

ron — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:07:37 +0000

Nuclear war is winnable for the Russians and Chinese. They can use EMPs and a combination of other techniques such as disabling US nuclear silos. There may be a few nuclear explosions, however in the end as long as China and Russia get political control in the end they will do it. China will go through hell and back for Taiwan. The corrupted spoiled Americans have no idea what they are in for. China and Russia are destined to defeat America, read golitsyn it will happen. Although, I believed that once the Russians do defeat America, they themselves may collapse under political duress. The Chinese CCP on the other hand has firm control over China.

By: Eupraxopher

Eupraxopher — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:56:09 +0000

If WE humans (ALL of us) including the middle east, don’t get rid of nukes…and, start living sustainably with energy on the earth as well, and wake up from the consensus trance that modern civilization has put us all in…WE FREAKIN’ all DESERVE TO DIE! We can’t live without the Earth, but the Earth can certainly live without us…

By: Eupraxopher

Eupraxopher — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:48:25 +0000

Get real: All of you! It has already been proven that it only requires 100 to 200 (max) nuclear explosions of the scale that exists today to put the Earth into a Nuclear Winter. 2 to 3 weeks of near complete sun blockage, killing off most plant life (no sun, no photosynthesis) and for years partial blockage that might as well be no sun at all, because temperatures would drop to winter-like over most of the planet…thus, within a few months ALL (or most) living creatures would be extinct (primarily land dwellers) and those that survive would soon exhaust all the scavengable resources to eat, and then will soon turn their taste buds on each other! And there are TENS of THOUSANDs of Nukes active today! Any of you took the time to read THE ROAD or seen the movie that is out now? THERE IS NO STRATEGY other than getting rid of all of them…“I have become death, the destroyer of worlds”- Oppenheimer

By: roland

roland — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:27:14 +0000

I pray that day will not come. But I always agree in preparedness. I believe in self defense and diplomacy.

By: Cole

Cole — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:07:13 +0000

Ditto what William said but I would worry more about a container ship nuke. Byron, factor in that it was not 1,100 tests in the mainland. Many were in the Pacific and most others in the U.S. were underground. Few occurred in close time proximity, and none were near urban centers. I was surprised to learn that two underground tests occurred near Hattiesburg, MS, and other test happened outside Nevada. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_test... Looks like about 317 tests occurred prior to the above ground test ban treaty. Out of those about 100+ were in the Pacific. So that leaves around 200 above ground tests in Nevada. I didn't realize I had been exposed to radiation from "Sedan" that was supposed to be a test of peaceful utility of underground nukes for mining, etc. Radiation escaped and got fallout in Iowa where I lived as a kid. I recall that the nuns were teaching us to hide under desks. But they forgot to tell us not to breathe and to stay indoors.

By: william

william — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:46:55 +0000

Byron skinner,

The US may have taken over 1100 nuclear hits, but none of those were intended to harm people. All thoseblast were test, not nuclear stikes and didnt happen all at once. If you were to launch nuclear weapons at the US you could cripple it. You dont have to kill everyone to do that, all you have to do is cause a widespread panic buy blowing up major population centers. its not the weapons itself that cause the crippling, its the reaction people have afterward. Now as you pointed out that is highly unlikely, but still doable. now as for a suitcase bomb you dont need it that small. More then likely it will be the size of a truck, something that is easy to build. Most likely though if someone got nuclear material they would just build a dirty bomb since it doesnt take a rocket scientist to build, and cause panic that way.

By: Niall Lynch

Niall Lynch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:46:11 +0000

I don’t want to see Iran get nukes. But we’re more likely to convince Iran of this if we (a) stop sponsoring invasions of their country, (b) remove our troops from their eastern and western borders, and © if Israel divests itself of its own illegal nuclear weapons. Because otherwise we’re saying Israel has carte blanche to violate any non-proliferation treaty and law, but Iran somehow must stick to the letter of both.

By: Niall Lynch

Niall Lynch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:44:07 +0000

Oh, and by the way, you are aware that Israel itself helped fund and set up Hamas in the 90s? How exactly does that square with your “Israel under threat of extinction by Hamas!”. Read some history my friend before you put your foot in your mouth.

By: Niall Lynch

Niall Lynch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:42:46 +0000

Even if what you say is true in practice, it’s still not a desire to kill all the Jews. Just Israelis. ANd I suppose, if we listen to the hyper-racist policies of Avigdor Lieberman, who wants to expel all non-Jews from Israel, we would have to conclude that Hamas and Hizbullah have a legitimate struggle against Israel.

Agreed?