"MOVEMENT ON RUSSIAN MISSILE PROGRAM IS SEEN AS VIOLATION OF ARMS TREATY", The New York Times, Thursday, October 20, 2016
"Russia appears to be moving ahead with a program to produce a ground-launched cruise missile...." The US administration is protesting that such a missile would violate "a landmark arms control agreement."
That accord signed by Reagan and Gorbachev is the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Agreement that bars the introduction of new intermediate range (300-3,400 miles) Nuclear-Capable missiles most likely to be deployed and USED in Europe.
The US itself plans to build and deploy a Long Range Stand Off (LRSO) Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missile. It can be launched more than 3,000 miles from its target!
There is NO WAY for the "other side" to determine if the missile is carrying a Nuclear warhead or not.
In a recent post here, we noted that Candidate Clinton has expressed doubts on deployment of this dangerously destabilizing new weapon.
Sen. Feinstein (D-California) has authored an "open letter" in opposition to this example of planned escalation of Nuclear Weaponry. (Escalation euphemistically called "modernization" by its proponents.)
Also, this month Mr. Putin suspended Russia's cooperation in disposing of his nation's plutonium stocks - the core of almost all Nuclear Warheads.
COLD WAR LIKE MADNESS CONTINUES. We need to STOP IT NOW!
MILLENIALS it will be your world... OR NO WORLD.
Nor can the rest of us remain passive in the face of this imminent Ultimate Threat to our children and grandchildren. CLICK here.
READ NYTS ARTICLE
"Take a Stand. And Then Go Stand There." - the late Anti-War activist Daniel Berrigan
ABOLITION IN OUR TIME! TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
"Mr. and Mrs. Nuclear War", The New York Times Sunday Book Review of The Cold War They Made by Ron Robin, reviewed by Philip Taubman.
Mr. Taubman is the author of the highly-praised The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb.
Taubman calls Mr. Robin's book "a withering indictment of the Wohlstetters and their influence on defense policy."
The husband and wife RAND Corporation analysts championed the Cold War policy of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) which still influences our Nuclear Posture and theory today.
Taubman notes: "White House or Kremlin miscalculation would have left millions dead, nations destroyed and the planet reeling."
WORSE, Albert Wohlstetter "pressed for a nuclear war-winning policy."
Yet, the POTUS often decried as a "war hawk", Ronald Reagan, warned:
"A Nuclear War cannot be won and must never be fought."
It is way beyond Halloween scary that our political and military leadership today are pushing for "modernization" of our already deadly, destructive Nuclear Arsenals and planning for their actual use in Nuclear war scenarios.
No Doomsday Doubts for them! While the rest of us continue to live with this threat of continuous Annihilation.
Both Russia and the US together have thousands of Nuclear Weapons on "hair-trigger alert" - Ready to Launch on Notice.
What Mr. Taubman calls "surreal madness."
In debate Candidate Clinton pointed out that the POTUS has only about 4 minutes to decide whether or not a Nuclear Attack is real and whether or not to launch the weapons that will destroy humanity, the world and all future generations. OMNICIDE and ABORTION on an unimaginable scale.
But Imagine IT and Face IT, we must. A necessary first step to stop IT from ever happening....
The alternative is to do Nothing... and hope that Nothing Happens Forever....
WE, THE PEOPLE, need to change this extremely dangerous situation.
START WORKING NOW from the Ground Up!
BE INFORMED on This ISSUE OF ISSUES!
Know the four presidential candidates' positions. VOTE accordingly on November 8. Vote for yourselves and for your children and grandchildren. It may be our Present but it is their Future. We need to ensure that they will have one....
There are many Anti-Nuclear Weapons organizations that you can explore, join and/or donate to. SEE The Nuclear Abolitionist Blog for an extensive list of Links.
NYTS Book Review
ABOLITION IN OUT TIME. BEFORE WE RUN OUT OF TIME.
"IN HACKED AUDIO, CLINTON RETHINKS AN OBAMA PLAN", The New York Times, Washington,D.C., September 30,2016)
At a February fundraiser, Candidate Clinton privately "expressed doubts" about our nation's moving forward with its 30 year trillion dollar creation of a new generation of World Destroying Nuclear Weapons and their computer-driven, highly complex, incredibly expensive delivery to target systems.
She also staked out a position (again, not on the record) against the proposed new Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missile aka Long Range Stand Off missile, LRSO:
"The last thing we need are sophisticated cruise missiles that are nuclear armed."
As described in our numerous Posts here, the Times, too, describes a "modernization" program featuring "new factories, refurbished nuclear arms, and a new generation of weapon carriers, including bombers, missiles and submarines."
Andrew Weber, former high-ranking Defense official, called the new missile a "particularly destabilizing, dangerous type of nuclear weapon."
Clinton praised former Sec of Defense, William J Perry, for speaking out against the Nuclear Weapons threat, and in particular the LRSO, stating that the more he speaks out publicly "the better off we'll be in really trying to cut this off."
She also appeared to question the necessity for the Nuclear Modernization program: "This is going to be a big issue. There's a lot of money we're taking about to go into refurbishing and modernization."
Clinton also mentioned being open to exploring new Nuclear Weapons Treaties with Russia beyond 2010's New Start which she helped negotiate.
She continued: "Do we have to do any of it? If we have to do some of it,how much do we have to do? That's going to be a tough question...." and said that she would ask for the help of Mr.Weber and Mr. Perry to "help me answer that question."
This Blog's position is stark and steadfast. To answer Sec Clinton's question - WE SHOULD NOT BE DOING ANY OF IT!
Allow these aging, horrific, world-ending weapons to die a world-wide natural death in their Silos, Subs and Bombers. If that's not fast enough, (and it probably won't be) Dismantle Them. Start Now!
We partnered with Russia on this before and we can do it again.
This is our NUCLEAR WEAPONS RUBICON. Once we cross this singularly dangerous threshold, there is no going back. That trillion dollars and more will be in the hands of the Nuclear Weapons Industry and its multitude of contractors. Then it will be too late.
Like all of those Nuclear Missiles - once launched they cannot be called back....
READ NYTS Article
William J Perry Website
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WORK FOR ABOLITION IN OUR TIME! BEFORE WE ARE OUT OF TIME!
