An expert has warned hundreds of millions would die within the first few of hours of a nuclear war – and says “no matter how it starts, it ends with everyone dead”..READ FULL CONTENT>>>>>>
Annie Jacobsen is the author of multiple best-selling books on America’s military, which include studies of top-secret research lab DARPA and the infamous Area 51. She says that if Russia or China launched a missile, the US president would have only six minutes to make a vital decision, The Daily Star reports.
Should they retaliate, which would lead to the deaths of nearly the whole world population, or should they allow one of America’s cities to be blasted off the map? Speaking to podcaster Lex Fridman, the current US doctrine of “launch on warning” means retaliation would happen before there was time for questions on why the first alert had been set off. She said: “We are one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear Armageddon and no matter how nuclear war starts, it ends with everyone dead,” she said.
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“The US Defense Department has a early warning system. And the system in space is called SBIRS, a constellation of satellites that is keeping an eye on all of America’s enemies. So the moment an ICBM launches, they see the hot rocket exhaust on the ICBM a fraction of a second after it launches. And so there begins this horrifying policy called launch on warning, and that’s the US counterattack.
“The reason that the United States is so ferociously watching for a nuclear launch somewhere around the globe is so that the nuclear command and control system in the US can move into action to immediately make a counterstrike. That policy, launch on warning, is exactly like it says, it means the United States will not wait to absorb a nuclear attack. It will launch nuclear weapons in response before the bomb actually hits.”
On more than one past occasion, the order has been given for Russian or American forces to launch a nuclear strike, for it to then emerge that the command was given incorrectly. Next time, we might not be so lucky. Annie adds one former US president has shared doubts that it’s rational to unleash Armageddon based on a blip on a radar screen.
One former US president has shared doubts that it’s rational to unleash Armageddon based on a blip on a radar screen Annie said: “The best sort of hitting the nail on the head statement is in President Reagan’s memoirs. He refers to the six-minute window and calls it irrational.” The effects of a nuclear explosion are not typically understood, and the consequent mushroom cloud would pull in people from miles around and hurl them into the sky whilst they burned to death. This horror will be repeated in cities worldwide.
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She continued: “The United States has 1,770 nuclear weapons deployed, meaning those weapons could launch in as little as 60 seconds and up to a couple minutes. Some of them on the bombers might take an hour or so. Russia has 1,674 deployed nuclear weapons, same scenario, their weapon systems are on par with ours. That’s not to mention the 12,500 nuclear weapons amongst the other nine nuclear-armed nations.” When the weapons detonate, 300mph winds would cause carnage, she says, adding: “You’re talking about people miles out getting sucked up into that stem. When you see the mushroom cloud, that would be people.”
Annie also says she spoke to dozens of major political and military figures regarding the concept of nuclear deterrents, and they tended to agree on one detail. She said: “Every source I interviewed for this book, from former Secretaries of Defence, nuclear sub force commanders, Stratcom commanders, FEMA directors, nuclear weapons engineers, they all shared with me the common denominator that nuclear war is insane.”
If a US president made that fateful decision to strike back, countless lives would end in less time than it takes to play a game of football. “First millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions of people will die in the first 72 minutes of a nuclear war. And then comes nuclear winter where the billions then die from starvation.”.READ FULL CONTENT>>>>>>
