June 06, 2025
The Brink of the Apocalypse
Timothy Birdnow
The Doomsday Clock is at one minute to midnight.
Roll Out The Nukes: The Risk Level Just Went "Way Up” And Trump Warns "We’ll Be Very, Very Tough” If Russia Doesn’t End The War
We have been fortunate indeed that Putin didn't launch the birds already.
The Russians changed their nuclear launch protocols to say "any attack on infrastructure needed for defense" can be met with a nuclear response, meaning the Ukrainian drone attack would have authorized a launch.
Putin WILL do this if he feels he has no other choice. He's not going to be caught in a spider hole like Saddam Hussein.
Americans are completely clueless about all this. Most think that we are the only ones to have nuclear weapons, and they think our arsenal is top of the line too. None of that is true.
The Russians have a much larger and more modern arsenal than do we. The Chinese arsenal is smaller but not insignificant (at about 200 warheads). If the Russians launch on us the Chinese probably will as well. Better to fry us now that leave us wounded and enraged.
A nuclear war will NOT cause a nuclear winter as the author of this article claims; studies done back in the nineties proved that. But it might cause a "nuclear autumn" and certainly we won't get a crop in that season.
The contamination from fallout will dissipate in about two weeks, but the soil will still be contaminated for a number of years. So will wells. There will be some very difficult problems.
The cities will be gone, by and large. That would be most of the population would be dead (including myself - I live in the city of St. Louis itself, not even in the 'burbs). The only consolation we can take (limited as it is) is that the Democrats will be forever out of power as most of their voters would be dead. Their power base is entirely in the big cities.
One nuclear war can ruin your whole day, even if it gets rid of a few creeps.
At any rate I largely agree and we've been playing with fire since this war began. Without a clear victory (and it wasn't going to happen with Western money and weapons pouring into Ukraine) or a negotiated settlement (which the Biden Administration opposed when it was possible) this thing was destined to grind on year after bloody year, and it was assured to continue to escalate. Now we are on the brink of nuclear war.
And STILL so many people in both parties are beating their chests and calling for more. It's insane.
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Robert McNamara ·
Robert McNamara ·
The Doomsday Clock is at one minute to midnight.
Roll Out The Nukes: The Risk Level Just Went "Way Up” And Trump Warns "We’ll Be Very, Very Tough” If Russia Doesn’t End The War
We have been fortunate indeed that Putin didn't launch the birds already.
The Russians changed their nuclear launch protocols to say "any attack on infrastructure needed for defense" can be met with a nuclear response, meaning the Ukrainian drone attack would have authorized a launch.
Putin WILL do this if he feels he has no other choice. He's not going to be caught in a spider hole like Saddam Hussein.
Americans are completely clueless about all this. Most think that we are the only ones to have nuclear weapons, and they think our arsenal is top of the line too. None of that is true.
The Russians have a much larger and more modern arsenal than do we. The Chinese arsenal is smaller but not insignificant (at about 200 warheads). If the Russians launch on us the Chinese probably will as well. Better to fry us now that leave us wounded and enraged.
A nuclear war will NOT cause a nuclear winter as the author of this article claims; studies done back in the nineties proved that. But it might cause a "nuclear autumn" and certainly we won't get a crop in that season.
The contamination from fallout will dissipate in about two weeks, but the soil will still be contaminated for a number of years. So will wells. There will be some very difficult problems.
The cities will be gone, by and large. That would be most of the population would be dead (including myself - I live in the city of St. Louis itself, not even in the 'burbs). The only consolation we can take (limited as it is) is that the Democrats will be forever out of power as most of their voters would be dead. Their power base is entirely in the big cities.
One nuclear war can ruin your whole day, even if it gets rid of a few creeps.
At any rate I largely agree and we've been playing with fire since this war began. Without a clear victory (and it wasn't going to happen with Western money and weapons pouring into Ukraine) or a negotiated settlement (which the Biden Administration opposed when it was possible) this thing was destined to grind on year after bloody year, and it was assured to continue to escalate. Now we are on the brink of nuclear war.
And STILL so many people in both parties are beating their chests and calling for more. It's insane.
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.”
General Turgis in Dr. Strangelove
General Turgis in Dr. Strangelove
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