UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has declared that she is ready and willing to kick off thermonuclear warfare should she take over as prime minister, stressing her hawkish bonafides as she seeks to replace Boris Johnson.
Nuclear weapons
News Roundup 8/23/2022
US News Anthony Fauci will retire in December. Reuters Russia Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov says Moscow would only use nuclear weapons in defense. Daily Beast Ukraine’s military chief Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi says nearly 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have...
Russian Officials Indicate Nuclear Weapons Are Not an Option to Use Against Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine completes its sixth month, senior Russian officials are dismissing the idea nuclear weapons will be used in Ukraine. Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov said the ultimate weapons would be deployed “for self-defense in emergency circumstances.”
Moscow Accuses Washington of ‘Unreasonable and Unnecessary Escalation’
Russia claims the US provoked the Kremlin with a request to inspect Moscow's nuclear weapons under the New Start treaty. The Kremlin recently announced it was suspending American inspections because Western sanctions were preventing Russians from implementing checks...
News Roundup 8/9/2022
US News Relatives of 19-year-old Anton Black, who died after being detained by police officers in Maryland, have reached a $5m partial settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit. AJ According to a lawsuit filed by the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (OPD),...
Cuban Missile Crisis Things
This old New Yorker piece about Curtis LeMay has some details about the Missile Crisis that I did not know and want to save here for someday. So we all already knew that 1: the USSR did already have operational short and medium range missiles in Cuba, but Khrushchev...
A Vital Book for Sane People
The top seller on Amazon for books devoted to war and peace as of this writing, Scott Horton's newest offering, Hotter than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is a timely must read. As Washington barrels heedlessly along into Cold War II, the American public...
Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (feat. Scott Horton)
https://youtu.be/HKltpRa7a-8 ... the use of nuclear or similar weapons, or the threat thereof, is a crime against humanity for which there can be no justification...it is precisely the characteristic of modern weapons that they cannot be used selectively, cannot be...
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