Here is a 4 hour examination of the
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy.

It really is worth watching if you can allocate the time.
I've seen both 2 hour episodes.
It's a show for adults who want to understand what happened.
You will see the insanity of the world we live in.
It's amazing we're still here and even now
we are threatened by nuclear weapons.


U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy, An Oral History, Part 1



U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy, An Oral History, Part 2

Bobby. wrote on Jun 28^th, 2020 at 10:33pm:


Are you seriously expecting anyone to watch a 4 hour youtube video

Bobby. wrote on Jun 29^th, 2020 at 2:47pm:




I should have posted this one first:

Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control, and Survivability - Part 1

'The Day After' Nuclear War/Deterrence Discussion Panel -
ABC News 'Viewpoint' (November 20 1983)


The panel, moderated by Ted Koppel, consists of (in no particular order):
- Carl Sagan (notable and distinguished scientist and an authority on the topic of Nuclear Winter)
- William F. Buckley Jr. (noted conservative political commentator, publisher of the National Review)
- Robert S. McNamara (United States Secretary of Defense to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson)
- Henry Kissinger (National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State for President Richard Nixon)
- Brent Scowcroft (National Security Adviser for President Gerald Ford, and later National Security Adviser for President George H.W. Bush)
- Elie Wiesel (Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Holocaust survivor)
and a brief interview with George Shultz (then-Secretary of State to President Ronald Reagan at the time of the broadcast)

Again, this panel is extremely intriguing into the subject of nuclear war, the effects of it, the danger of it, nuclear deterrence and how it connects to the former subjects, tensions between the East and West, and various other things - all within the context of a time where all of these things were very present, very real realities that everyone living in that time had to live with and accept. I hope it's as intriguing to you all as it was to me.

Here's another great video which talks of modern times
and looks ahead to the future:






Sandia National Labs
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On Deterrence is a documentary that presents a contemporary dialogue involving different viewpoints about the evolution of nuclear weapon deterrence since World War II and how deterrence may evolve in the future. The intent of this film is not to advocate any one viewpoint, but to make a lasting contribution to the history of deterrence and to the long-term dialogue about the role of U.S. nuclear weapons as a deterrent.

The film features interviews from more than 30 experts, including: National Nuclear Security Administration head Gen. Frank Klotz; Ploughshares Fund president Joseph Cirincione; former U.S. senators Sam Nunn of Georgia and Jon Kyl of Arizona; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace senior associates Ashley Tellis and James Acton; former secretaries of defense James Schlesinger, Robert Gates and William Perry; former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Sig Hecker; Stanford University senior fellow Scott Sagan; and Rose Gottemoeller, former under secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the State Department

The United Kingdom conducted 12 major nuclear weapons tests in Australia between 1952 and 1957. These explosions occurred at the Montebello Islands, Emu Field and Maralinga.


https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/14/australia/australia-uk-nuclear-tests-annivers...

Australia is still dealing with the legacy of the UK's nuclear bomb tests, 65 years on

By James Griffiths, CNN

Updated 0016 GMT (0816 HKT) October 15, 2018








"Ultimately, they settled on Australia, which had many benefits," said Elizabeth Tynan, author of "Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga story," a book about the tests. These includes a sympathetic, compliant government under the recently elected Anglophile Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and wide open spaces in which to carry out the detonations themselves.
In September 1950, British leader Clement Attlee sent Menzies a secret message asking whether his government "would be prepared in principle to agree that the first United Kingdom atomic weapon should be tested in Australian territory."
According to a later Australian Royal Commission investigation, Menzies "immediately agreed to the proposal," without consulting any of his cabinet colleagues or the Australian parliament. Indeed, until weeks before the first test was carried out, only three government ministers knew about it.
Menzies' enthusiasm for the British bomb "wasn't all sycophantism, it wasn't all sucking up to his colonial masters," said Tynan, though this was definitely a factor. The Australian leader also saw in the atomic age an advantage for his country, which was one of the few to have large stocks of uranium, a previously largely unwanted material.
The UK's first atomic bomb was detonated in the waters off the Montebello Islands, a small archipelago in north western Australia, in the early hours of October 3, 1952, officially making London the third member of the nuclear club, after the US and the Soviet Union.


Unlike the Montebello test, which went off largely as planned, the 9.1 kiloton Totem I sent a cloud of debris and smoke some 15,000 feet (4,500 meters) into the air, spreading fallout far higher and farther than originally expected.
The Royal Commission later found the test was carried out in inappropriate wind conditions and without proper consideration for people living nearby, examples of the often staggering lack of care taken by British officials overseeing the nuclear program, who frequently ignored or did not bother to seek out vital information about the potential effects of their tests on the host country.

Even those with 2 bob between the ears today know that the Earth is too small for a nuclear war.

The detonation of 16 nuclear bombs (hydrogen bombs) in a short space of time will change the Earth for ever as we know it now.

As for the British and their nuclear tests here.

They should be made to fix the hole in the ozone layer above Australia.

I did say in short space of time.

This will kick up enough dust to start the nuclear winter.

As for nuclear testing I think its criminal.

And lest not forget the indigenous people of Australia that coped the fall out.

J. Robert Oppenheimer - Address to the American Philosophical Society (1945)




Transcript:
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/robertoppenheimeratomicbomb.htm

Bobby. wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2020 at 10:03am:


You can blame Clinton the pedo on all of this. He was the one who put the chinks on the map when he brought them into the WTO !! They broke every rule in the rule book to get where they are today and the greedy West turned a blind eye because they were getting stuff made on the cheap. Now our day of reckoning is fast approaching

Bobby. wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2020 at 11:57am:


No but scomo has a letter from the chinks like Neville Chamberlain did saying it's all ok so no need to panic LOL

Bobby. wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2020 at 12:08pm:


And we know how much that piece of paper was worth.

• Ivan RDS-220 Hydrogen Bomb

1,417,901 views

•Aug 24, 2020

We only live because Kim lets us live.

Send the dear leader flowers and presents.

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 11^th, 2020 at 1:53pm:



How many more does he have?
How many will he make?
Pine Gap is the most important target in the world
and it's right here near Alice Springs.

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 11^th, 2020 at 1:53pm:



Poor Bwian. How did you arrive at that conclusion? Because he didn't parade any more?

"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned that his country would “fully mobilize” its nuclear force if threatened as he took center stage at a military parade that unveiled what appeared to be a new intercontinental ballistic missile and other weapons."

https://apnews.com/article/seoul-south-korea-north-korea-parades-kim-il-sung-754...

A nuclear force of one?

How many ICBM's does he have? How many other missiles to be launched from Subs etc?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17823706

Hours before state media showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting what it said was a hydrogen bomb.




3 September 2017 - 'the biggest yet'

North Korea claimed it has successfully tested what the world has worried about - a miniaturised hydrogen bomb that could be loaded on to a long-range missile.

Seismic readings of 6.3 indicated the test was bigger than any other that has been conducted.

Some early estimates said that the test came in at about 100-150 kilotonnes, potentially 10 times larger than last time.

North Korean state media called it a "perfect success" and a "very meaningful step in completing the national nuclear weapons programme".

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 12^th, 2020 at 9:22pm:



Brian,
Kim murdered his brother and his cousins and many Generals and other people -
he's a murderer - he's a beast -
and now he has nukes that he can point at us
or our allies.

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 12^th, 2020 at 10:04pm:



Are you sure Brian?
Trump has been accused of being an isolationist.

You do like to believe Propaganda, don't you, Lee?   

We all have the residue of atomic tests in our bodies:

Neferti wrote on Oct 13^th, 2020 at 4:34pm:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54680893






Campaigners have hailed a "new chapter" after a key step by the United Nations towards banning nuclear arms.

Honduras has become the 50th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons so it will now come into force in 90 days time.

But what it will actually achieve remains in doubt because the five recognised nuclear powers have not signed the accord.

Supporters hope it will nevertheless have a deterrent effect.
What's in the treaty?

The accord was approved by 122 countries at the UN General Assembly in 2017 but needed to be ratified by at least 50 before being enacted.

It declares that those countries that ratify it must "never under any circumstances develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices".

    Who can have nuclear weapons?
    Is nuclear control set to self-destruct?
    Q&A: New Start

The treaty outlaws the use or threat to use nuclear arms, and bars signatories from allowing "any stationing, installation or deployment of any nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices" on their territory.
What has the reaction been?

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) described the 50th ratification as heralding "a new chapter for nuclear disarmament".

Beatrice Fihn, the head of Ican, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, said: "Decades of activism have achieved what many said was impossible: nuclear weapons are banned."

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, said: "Today is a victory for humanity, and a promise of a safer future."

A statement from the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, described the move as "a meaningful commitment towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons, which is the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations".

There has been no immediate reaction from the five main nuclear powers - the US, Russia, China, the UK and France. But the US and the UK made clear their opposition in 2017.


What is being done to eliminate them?

The Non-Proliferation Treaty, backed by 190 countries in 1970, commits countries which signed up, including the US, Russia, France the UK and China, to reducing their stockpiles and bars others from acquiring nuclear weapons.

India, Pakistan and Israel did not sign up and North Korea left in 2003. The US, Russia and the UK have been reducing their inventories.

Russia and the US are trying to extend their last remaining nuclear arms agreement which is due to expire in February.

New Start, signed in 2010, limits the number of long-range nuclear warheads each can possess to 1,550.

The US recently pulled out of another treaty, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty signed during the Cold War, after accusing Russia of violating it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54680893






Campaigners have hailed a "new chapter" after a key step by the United Nations towards banning nuclear arms.

Honduras has become the 50th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons so it will now come into force in 90 days time.

But what it will actually achieve remains in doubt because the five recognised nuclear powers have not signed the accord.

Supporters hope it will nevertheless have a deterrent effect.
What's in the treaty?

The accord was approved by 122 countries at the UN General Assembly in 2017 but needed to be ratified by at least 50 before being enacted.

It declares that those countries that ratify it must "never under any circumstances develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices".

    Who can have nuclear weapons?
    Is nuclear control set to self-destruct?
    Q&A: New Start

The treaty outlaws the use or threat to use nuclear arms, and bars signatories from allowing "any stationing, installation or deployment of any nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices" on their territory.
What has the reaction been?

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) described the 50th ratification as heralding "a new chapter for nuclear disarmament".

Beatrice Fihn, the head of Ican, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, said: "Decades of activism have achieved what many said was impossible: nuclear weapons are banned."

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, said: "Today is a victory for humanity, and a promise of a safer future."

A statement from the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, described the move as "a meaningful commitment towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons, which is the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations".

There has been no immediate reaction from the five main nuclear powers - the US, Russia, China, the UK and France. But the US and the UK made clear their opposition in 2017.


What is being done to eliminate them?

The Non-Proliferation Treaty, backed by 190 countries in 1970, commits countries which signed up, including the US, Russia, France the UK and China, to reducing their stockpiles and bars others from acquiring nuclear weapons.

India, Pakistan and Israel did not sign up and North Korea left in 2003. The US, Russia and the UK have been reducing their inventories.

Russia and the US are trying to extend their last remaining nuclear arms agreement which is due to expire in February.

New Start, signed in 2010, limits the number of long-range nuclear warheads each can possess to 1,550.

The US recently pulled out of another treaty, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty signed during the Cold War, after accusing Russia of violating it.

Jasin wrote on Oct 26^th, 2020 at 7:52am:


There have already been 520 atmospheric nuclear explosions.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests

There have been 2,121 tests done since the first in July of 1945, involving 2,476 nuclear devices. As of 1993, worldwide, 520 atmospheric nuclear explosions (including 8 underwater) have been conducted with a total yield of 545 megaton (Mt): 217 Mt from pure fission and 328 Mt from bombs using fusion, while the estimated number of underground nuclear tests conducted in the period from 1957 to 1992 is 1,352 explosions with a total yield of 90 Mt.[1]