Thursday, July 31, 2014

So You Think You'll Survive a Nuclear War

The first wave of missiles comes from submarines along each of the coasts.  The geniuses in the Pentagon count up the number of Russian submarines, compute the number of missiles that could be launched at one time, and then determine they will build enough anti-missile missiles to shoot down a hundred times more missiles than that.

Even if it worked which it probably wouldn't, the Russian missiles would arm before they launch as the Russian naval commanders know they're dead anyway.  Whether these missiles reach target or they don't, there will be a gigantic radioactive cloud all the way up and down both coasts ... and that's the best outcome.  If any of them reach a target, you will see civilian carnage such as the world has never imagined in its worst nightmare.  These bombs make the one for Hiroshima look like a powder puff.

They go on and on about the missile defense but do you remember them testing.  Ah, good.  Now do you remember it working.  Right.

Tip on that missile defense:  it's a defense against ICBMs (the highest-flying nuclear missiles)
Tip on those submarines:  they do not launch ICBMs (because they're much closer to target there is no need for them to go so high)

They tell you the same missile defense will stop all of them.  Right.  Comforting, isn't it.

Right now the bankers dance with the idea of whether they can get away with it.  Nothing makes bigger bucks for a bank than a war.  The US was golden for decades after WWII.  Back then it wasn't a bad thing as they didn't cause the problem.  This time they did and it was deliberate.  You can see all around the world where America is blowing stuff up and accomplishing absolutely nothing by it ... except keeping an arms industry live.

Now some generals say a limited nuclear war is feasible.  They toy with powers beyond their brutally-limited imagination.

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