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South Korea and Japan Thinking About Nuclear Weapons

Posted by on May 20, 2013 Comments Off

Growing concern about North Korea’s nuclear program has led many in South Korea to favor the idea of building atomic weapons. Japan too is discussing such a move.

Perhaps it is merely basic human desire to keep up with the neighbors, but an increasing number of South Koreans are saying that they want nuclear weapons too.

Even in Japan, a country still traumatized by the legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is a debate about the once-taboo topic of nuclear weapons.

The mere fact that the bomb is being discussed as a policy option shows how North Korea’s nuclear program could trigger a new arms race in East Asia, unraveling decades of nonproliferation efforts. The government in Pyongyang conducted its third nuclear test in February and is believed to be preparing a fourth.

More South Koreans support developing nuclear weapons – latimes.com

Japan must develop nuclear weapons, warns Tokyo governor – Asia – World – The Independent

Tokyo’s outspoken Governor says his country, which suffered history’s only nuclear attack, should build nuclear weapons to counter the threat from fast-rising China.

In an interview with The Independent, Shintaro Ishihara said Japan could develop nuclear weapons within a year and send a strong message to the world.

“All our enemies: China, North Korea and Russia – all close neighbours – have nuclear weapons. Is there another country in the world in a similar situation?

Japan must develop nuclear weapons, warns Tokyo governor – Asia – World – The Independent

Future Russian Strategic Challenges :: Gatestone Institute

Posted by on May 20, 2013 Comments Off

According to the then-Russian Chief of the General Staff, General Nikolai Makarov, in 2009, “The strategic nuclear forces for us are a sacred issue…” Senior Russian officials often make nuclear threats, including threats of direct targeting and threats of preemptive nuclear attack, against US allies. There are only two countries in the world that do this routinely – Russia and North Korea. China is a poor third in this arena, but is swiftly moving in their direction.

Russia routinely exercises its nuclear forces against NATO and the U.S. Two weeks before the 2012 US election, the Kremlin announced “strategic nuclear forces’ exercises,” in which President Putin “oversaw test launches of strategic and cruise missiles which reached set targets at various military testing grounds.” Moreover, Russia routinely flies nuclear capable bombers into the air-defense identification zones of the U.S., NATO nations, and Japan.

Russia has virtually ceased eliminating legacy strategic forces. Russian data, released by the State Department in April 2013, record that Russia has increased its strategic delivery vehicles in the two years since New START has been in effect. The number of deployed warheads has decreased by 57, but this is apparently largely the result of New START’s not counting warheads on submarines that are being overhauled.

Future Russian Strategic Challenges :: Gatestone Institute

Scenario: Israel-Iran nuclear war

Posted by on May 13, 2013 Comments Off

In those first minutes, they’ll be stunned. Eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare, nerve endings numbed. They’ll just stand there. Soon, you’ll notice that they are holding their arms out at a 45-degree angle. Your eyes will be drawn to their hands and you’ll think you mind is playing tricks. But it won’t be. Their fingers will start to resemble stalactites, seeming to melt toward the ground. And it won’t be long until the screaming begins. Shrieking. Moaning. Tens of thousands of victims at once. They’ll be standing amid a sea of shattered concrete and glass, a wasteland punctuated by the shells of buildings, orphaned walls, stairways leading nowhere.

This could be Tehran, or what’s left of it, just after an Israeli nuclear strike.

Iranian cities — owing to geography, climate, building construction, and population densities — are particularly vulnerable to nuclear attack, according to a new study, “Nuclear War Between Israel and Iran: Lethality Beyond the Pale,” published in the journal Conflict & Health by researchers from the University of Georgia and Harvard University. It is the first publicly released scientific assessment of what a nuclear attack in the Middle East might actually mean for people in the region.

Its scenarios are staggering. An Israeli attack on the Iranian capital of Tehran using five 500-kiloton weapons would, the study estimates, kill seven million people — 86% of the population — and leave close to 800,000 wounded. A strike with five 250-kiloton weapons would kill an estimated 5.6 million and injure 1.6 million, according to predictions made using an advanced software package designed to calculate mass casualties from a nuclear detonation.

.:Middle East Online::Nuclear Terror in the Middle East: Lethality Beyond the Pale :.

Former Palestinian official advocates nuclear attack on Israel | World Tribune

Posted by on May 13, 2013 Comments Off

The Palestinian long deemed Israel’s chief security partner has called for the use of nuclear weapons against the Jewish state. Former Palestinian Authority security chief Jibril Rajoub said the Arab League must help the Palestinians fight Israel, particularly the capture of
Jerusalem.

Rajoub said he supported nuclear attacks on Israel.

Former Palestinian official advocates nuclear attack on Israel | World Tribune

Moscow military parade marks WWII Victory Day on May 9, 2013

Posted by on May 9, 2013 Comments Off

Russia has held a major military parade in the center of Moscow, an annual May 9 tradition to mark the German surrender in 1945 and the end of the Second World War in Europe. This follows French ceremonies on Wednesday.

President Vladimir Putin was among the dignitaries at Thursday’s military parade, with Russia celebrating its most important secular public holiday to mark the 1945 surrender of Germany in the Second World War, just over a week after Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

The annual Russian tradition was introduced by Soviet wartime leader Josef Stalin, but the ceremonies lulled somewhat in the 1990s under Russia’s liberal post-Communist leadership.

Moscow military parade marks WWII Victory Day | News | DW.DE | 09.05.2013

The best time for a nuclear attack from Russia/China is May 6th in 2013. Not that anything is going to happen in 2013. Around the middle of spring on a Monday is the best time. There is May 1 (May Day) and May 9 (Victory Day) that provide cover for movement of personel and military equipment.

In 2014 the best time for a nuclear attack is Monday May 5th.

A nuclear attack won’t happen without a good excuse. First we will see a good excuse which will probably come out of the Middle East. Then we wait for spring.

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First to Nuke – China’s position is not clear

Posted by on April 19, 2013 Comments Off

INTERPRETING any country’s pronouncements about its nuclear weapons can be a study in fine distinctions, but occasionally a state says — or fails to say — something in a clear break from the past. A Chinese white paper on defense, released on Tuesday, falls into this category and now demands our attention, because it omits a promise that China will never use nuclear weapons first.

That explicit pledge had been the cornerstone of Beijing’s stated nuclear policy for the last half-century. The white paper, however, introduces ambiguity. It endorses the use of nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack but does not rule out other uses.

Is China Changing Its Position on Nuclear Weapons? – NYTimes.com

You weren’t really dumb enough to believe China’s no first use pledge, were you?

The danger of dismissing North Korea’s nuclear threat – Washington Times

Posted by on April 15, 2013 Comments Off

Prudence and common sense appear to be absent in the Obama administration and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, who during the current crisis with North Korea, falsely reassure the American people that Pyongyang cannot deliver on its threats to make a nuclear attack on the U.S. mainland.

North Korea could deliver a nuclear bomb in the hold of a freighter under a foreign flag to destroy a U.S. port city such as New York or Los Angeles. They could give a bomb to terrorist groups such as al Qaeda or Hezbollah to deliver by truck or plane across the porous U.S. border. They could use a false-flagged freighter to move a Scud or their medium-range Nodong missile close enough to make a nuclear strike on the U.S. mainland.

What about North Korea’s claim that it has long-range nuclear missiles that can strike the United States right now? If our current crop of leaders is as prudent as were President Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Lyndon Johnson in 1957, they would warn the American people that North Korean nuclear threats to the U.S. heartland may be real.

PRY: The danger of dismissing North Korea’s nuclear threat – Washington Times

Report: North Korea May Be Able To Deliver Nuclear Weapons : NPR

Posted by on April 12, 2013 Comments Off

A Defense Intelligence Agency report suggests that North Korea has the ability to make nuclear weapons small enough to put on a missile. That does not necessarily mean that North Korea has the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.

Report: North Korea May Be Able To Deliver Nuclear Weapons : NPR

What about a ship launched EMP attack? Probably not yet, but it might attain that ability in the not too distant future.

PressTV – US fuel Korean crisis to wage nuke wars on China, Russia: Mike Billington

Posted by on April 10, 2013 Comments Off

PressTV is an Iranian station that seems to be a lot like the Russian version – Russia Today (RT). This article seems to be in line with the loopy left’s thinking on nuclear war. Yes, there is the threat of nuclear war, and the US is to blame for everything.

What if the Chinese and Russians at least partially believe this nonsense? Russia Today puts out nonsense like this too. So perhaps there is some belief that the US is out to get them. Although, it’s hard to keep a straight face when saying that. With Obama trying to gut the US nuclear arsenal as fast as he can, then how does that imply the US wants a nuclear war?

As I have explained many times, the mind of the left flips the world upside-down. What is utterly stupid to the right might actually make some kind of sense to the other side. That’s why I occasionally post articles like this. So you can see how they think. I normally filter out this kind of stuff.

What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: The major question of course that everyone is asking right now is how serious basically that threat of a nuclear war or even of a military attack launched on South Korea has actually become?

Billington: I don’t think there is any danger of a nuclear war sparked by North Korea’s nuclear attack. I think there is a great danger of a nuclear war sparked between the United States and China and the United States and Russia over either the Syrian and Iranian situation in the Middle East or over Korea in Asia.

What I would like to point out actually is that there has been a concerted effort in the Western press including New York Times today to falsify the warning coming from China about the danger of war in Asia.

PressTV – US fuel Korean crisis to wage nuke wars on China, Russia: Mike Billington

The Coming Nuclear Breakout – WSJ.com

Posted by on April 8, 2013 Comments Off

President Obama came to office in 2009 promising to negotiate with America’s enemies and create a world without nuclear weapons. Four years later, North Korea is threatening America with nuclear attack, Iran is closer to its own atomic arsenal, and the world is edging ever closer to a dangerous new era of nuclear proliferation. The promises and the reality are connected.

The latest talks between the West and Iran failed this weekend, with no immediate plans for another round. The negotiations by now follow a pattern in which the U.S. makes concessions that Iran rejects, followed by more concessions that Iran also rejects, and so on as Tehran plays for time.

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Above all, the world can hear Mr. Obama declare for domestic American audiences that “the tide of war is receding” despite the growing evidence to the contrary. On present trend, the President who promised to rid the world of nuclear weapons is setting the stage for their greatest proliferation since the dawn of the atomic age.

Review & Outlook: The Coming Nuclear Breakout – WSJ.com

Obama’s New Defense Strategy Leaves America Less Safe

President Obama’s new national defense strategy is a budget-driven exercise masquerading as a strategic plan, writes Heritage’s Kim Holmes, former Assistant Secretary of State, in The Washington Times.

In trotting out the new strategy, President Obama said the “tide of war is receding.” Accordingly, U.S. forces will “no longer be sized to conduct large-scale, prolonged stability operations” (read: Iraq). But is the tide of war receding on the world stage? And how does he know that the U.S. will not need to engage in another “stability operation”?

[Published on January 14, 2012]

Obama’s New Defense Strategy Leaves America Less Safe