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Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United
States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American
policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly
set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. “The world
could end in the next couple of hours,” Gen. Robert Kehler, the former
commander of US Strategic Command, told me in an interview.
We sit on the razor’s edge. Vladimir Putin has said he is “not bluffing” about
the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction should NATO overstep on
Ukraine, and North Korea accuses the US of having “a sinister intention to
provoke a nuclear war.” For generations, the American public has viewed a
nuclear World War III as a remote prospect, but the threat is ever-present.
“Humanity is one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear
annihilation,” cautions UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “We must reverse
course.”
So far, we haven’t. The Pentagon’s plans for nuclear war remain firmly in
place."
Via
The RISKS Digest: Volume 34 Issue 12
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/12#subj2
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
