Pentagon’s Strategy Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Use Against Non-Nuclear Threats
October 28th, 2022Via: Bloomberg:
The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejected limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates and in the past by President Joe Biden.
Citing burgeoning threats from China and Russia, the Defense Department said in the document released Thursday that “by the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries.” In response, the US will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.
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I feel so safe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZct-itCwPE
That scene from Dr Strangelove just gets more potent over time—sure wish the vast underground facilities that have been built (not just the Peter Thiel-like proposed bug-out homes) could catch much more sunlight–might start to put a bit of doubt into the minds of the “crazies in the basement”