FAS is at it again… And ‘we’ are to blame, as usual…
When the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, the United States and Russia began the process of slowly dismantling their nuclear arsenals. Under the 2010 deal, New Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (START), they are each limited to 1,550 deployed strategic weapons on land, at sea, and in the air. Russia’s arsenal is missile-heavy, while the U.S. has a more balanced strategic arsenal.
That agreement expires in February 2026, with little prospect that it will be renewed or respected. That means that both the U.S. and Russia will be free to build as many nukes as they can manage. They can be as exotic as can be imagined; nuclear missiles that can stay aloft for weeks, “glide bombs” designed to evade radar, and the ubiquitous “suitcase bomb” that could blow up several blocks while irradiating an entire city.
Unlike policymakers of the past during the nuclear standoffs of the 1960s-1990s, today’s leaders must face a vastly different atomic world.
The Federation of American Scientists, an organization created by scientists involved in the Manhattan Project, has been tracking the worrisome trends and believes the prospect of nuclear war has never been greater.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media.
These are the same people who publish the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and the Doomsday Clock. They were founded to ‘counter’ military control of nuclear weapons, instead, wanting civilian control of them (that scares the hell out of me even more than military control).
With nine (at least admitted) countries having nukes now, it has become a bigger problem (known in science as a three body problem if you want to go research it).
These folks have protested, railed in media and press releases, and done everything they can do ‘scare’ people into destroying their weapons. But just like anything else, there is no way to actually determine of ‘all’ weapons are destroyed (see Iran’s current games).
They have continually cried wolf throughout the Cold War, and now are becoming even more strident. One hopes that sanity will prevail is spite of these people!!!
Sanity cannot prevail in an insane world. Eventually one nation or another will use nuclear weapons on another nation and all hell will break out on earth. Read the prophecies in the old and new testaments of the Bible. They predict terrible destruction before Jesus Christ returns and sets up His kingdom and makes all things new again.
The founders of the Federation of American Scientists were the same folks that thought that inviting Japanese representatives to watch a Pacific island being nuked would persuade Japan to surrender without having to destroy a Japanese city. Groves and Marshal lost their collective crap. After Hiroshima was bombed, The Japanese leadership still refused to surrender, so the demonstration idea wold never have worked but the FAS types blithely ignored the fact that it took a second bomb and the invasion of Manchuria by the Soviet Union to convince the Emperor that continuing the war was futile. In other words from the get-go the FAS was delusional and AFAIK still is.
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I never truly felt that the Soviets and later the Chinese were stupid enough to actually use nuclear weapons. Saber rattling sure, but stopping short of actually using them. Unfortunately we now have the Mullahs in Qom who seem to have no fear of turning the whole world into a radioactive cinder for the greater glory of Allah. We also have Putin and Xi who are desperate to maintain power and may just believe it would be possible to “win” a nuclear exchange. We been preached at for so long about the horrors of nuclear weapons, that I think the public has become jaded and doesn’t really understand that one H-bomb could turn New York or Moscow or Beijing into a smoking crater. I have no answers, other than recognizing that direct military action against Iran may be necessary for the security of the world.
Iran’s mantra. Israel is a “One Bomb Country”. They won’t stop until they are stopped.
John- Good point.
NRW- Thank you! That is an excellent point I ‘should’ have added to my post.
WSF- Agreed!
If you scratch the FAS deep enough, you’ll find it has the same roots as all the other peacenik groups, from student groups to even news groups.
(dons tinfoil hat)
Yes… Say it with me, it’s the KGB! Which was proven from actual KGB files after the fall of the USSR.
Scratch a Green and you’ll always find a Red.
There may be a few Greens that aren’t Reds, but they’re probably few and far between.
Beans/TOS- True!
I think better nuclear wars than a bunch of undeclared and covert biological wars.
I tend to think that the behavioral academcis have driven the rest mostly nuts enough that it makes far more sense to not have universities than it does to not have nuclear weapons.
Some academics have direct access to pathogens, and the other academics can set policy for and exert pressure on the first.
The noisy people who have presented themselves as the face of academia in recent years are extremely terrible ad copy for academia. It might be reasonable to conclude that academics are pretty murderous towards the American people, and should not be trusted to handle a glass of water safely.
But that may simply be me panicking myself into a hissy fit.
It’s highly unlikely that Russia actually honored that agreement therefore such an agreement is pointless and harmful to the US. Communist countries, and Russia is still a community country politically, never honor agreements that don’t serve their needs.
There is no way any country will get rid of their nuclear weapons, given recent history. Pakistan and North Korea can be utter assholes and get away with it because they have nukes. Ukraine got rid of their nukes for a treaty with Russia; they have paid dearly for that choice.
FAS can whine all they want, the number of countries with nuclear devices is only going to grow from here on out. We’ve seen that treaties are almost as good as an order of protection. For nations, having nukes is like us having a firearm handy ‘just in case’.