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Home » Nukes » Last Best Reminder

Last Best Reminder

m_cloud.jpgAnybody see Last Best Chance last night? Newsweek’s Johnathan Alter caught the nuclear ter­ror docu-​​drama:

It lacks spe­cial effects (too expen­sive) and a sat­is­fy­ing end­ing (too unre­al­is­tic), but effec­tively offers an all-​​too-​​plausible sce­nario of how a Russian sci­en­tist des­per­ate for cash could pro­vide highly enriched ura­nium through mid­dle­men to Arab jihadists. So, American Hiroshima begins, says one ter­ror­ist.
I couldnt get my kids to watch it. My daugh­ter said it was Too much of a downer, which about describes the atti­tude of pol­i­cy­mak­ers. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said early this year there was no huge prob­lem with the secu­rity of nuclear mate­ri­als in the for­mer Soviet Union. But Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, co-​​chairs of the 9/​11 Commission, which stud­ied the issue at length, strongly dis­agree. They believe nuclear ter­ror­ism is a dis­tinct pos­si­bil­ity…
Of all the vari­eties of incom­pe­tence in this, the Age of Incompetence, the most deadly involves the poten­tial of nuclear ter­ror­ism. After years of foot drag­ging, Presidents Bush and Putin have finally agreed at sum­mit meet­ings this year that it is the sin­gle most seri­ous threat in the world today­far more likely than a nuclear exchange by super­pow­ers. And yet they and their gov­ern­ments are not fol­low­ing through quickly enough to secure loose nukes at their source. At the pace were going, it will be 13 years2018before all of them are recov­ered and deac­ti­vated, by which time even the most sober ana­lysts believe ter­ror­ists will likely have blown up and con­t­a­m­i­nated some city forever.

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  1. Byron Skinner says:
    October 19, 2005 at 2:55 pm

    It’s been kinda quiet around here the past week or so, maybe this will get a lit­tle action started. I will endeavor to upset every­one.
    One of President Bushe’s secu­rity mea­sures that I don’t dis­agre with is main­tain­ing the nuclear arse­nal at a ready level. In the past dur­ing the Cold War MAD served to neu­tral­ize the use option on both the major sides. The minor play­ers were in effect frozen out of the nuclear game.
    Now we have a dif­fer­ent set of play­ers. They have no coun­try, no assets that they trea­sure or even their own lives that they con­sider worth perserv­ing. The con­se­quences of the use of nuclear weapons is of lit­tle or no con­cern to them.
    In that light the only option avaible to the United States in the event of a nuclear attack/​strike on American soil would be retal­i­a­tion in kind to any third party that would offered safe har­bor or sup­port to the group(s) who com­mit­ted the act.
    It makes no dif­fer­ence who is President Republican or Democrat there would be no other option as in the Cold War.
    The cur­rent move to deve­l­ope smaller yeld weapons like a 5Kt. war head or the bunker bust­ing B85 are steps in the right direc­tion. If nuclear weapons must be used, it is to every­one ben­e­fit to see that the most per­cise and low­est yeld weapons poss­able are used for a retal­i­atary strike.
    To wipe out a coun­try or a civ­i­liza­tion in retal­i­a­tion for a sin­gle act against or with in the United States is not the American way. The use of nuclear weapons y the United States would be judi­cious but it would hap­pen, make no mis­take about that.
    The increas­ing bold­ness and des­per­a­tion on the part of ter­ror­its groups/​organizations along with oppor­tun­tis­tic nations who will ped­dle both the tech­nolo­gly and the resources to con­struct and deliver a nuclear device says that these county(s) would be the target(s) of a U.S. strike(s).
    The most likely target(s) for U.S. retaliation(s) would be the country(s) who facil­i­ated the cre­ation and use of said nuclear device by the ter­ror­ists.
    ALLONS,
    Byron Skinner
    “Stewart’s Platoon”

    Reply
  2. Chris Alemany says:
    October 19, 2005 at 5:45 pm

    “The most likely target(s) for U.S. retaliation(s) would be the country(s) who facil­i­ated the cre­ation and use of said nuclear device by the ter­ror­ists.“
    So… the Soviet Union? They don’t exist.
    And what if the radioac­tive mate­r­ial is of American ori­gin (as por­trayed in the The Sum of All Fears)…
    Or are “we” just going to pick some 3rd world coun­try that is the base-​​of-​​operations-​​of-​​the-​​day?
    I don’t mean these ques­tions in an argu­men­ta­tive way.. sim­ply, I believe valid ques­tions given where nuclear tech­nol­ogy actu­ally comes from and who is respon­si­ble for its’ spread and security.

    Reply
  3. Chris Alemany says:
    October 19, 2005 at 5:46 pm

    What if that coun­try is Iraq?

    Reply
  4. Aaron says:
    October 19, 2005 at 9:42 pm

    What if the coun­try is pakistan?

    Reply
  5. Byron Skinner says:
    October 19, 2005 at 11:59 pm

    To All,
    I really don’t think who the coun­try of retal­i­a­tion would make much dif­fer­ence if the U.S. took a direct attack. Like it or not this is the box that the Terrorists have put the United States into.
    For any coun­try, be it Iran, Pakistan, Iraq or any other who worked with a Terrorist Organization to deve­l­ope and or helped deploy a explo­sive nuclear devive that was used against the United States it would be an act of state sui­cide.
    If the weapon came from with in, I have no doubt that Islam in the United States would be over.
    ALLONS,
    Byron Skinner
    “Stewart’s Platoon”

    Reply
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