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.