LAW’s ‘All Things Nuclear’ #443 (11/07/2023)
“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
Installing new network computer equipment today and tonight, so I am reposting one of my former newsletters. The media news is, of course, current, so that I can get at least a couple hours of sleep tonight! Somebody said, “No rest for the wicked” so I guess it’s true! llolloll! ~llaw
LLAW’s COMMENTARY (“All Things Nuclear” #412 on October 7th, 2023)
It is so odd to me that the national and international network media so often describes a potential nuclear war as something that is fought with results about like a conventional war with one country conquering another and that the loss of limited human life and survival in opposing countries is no big deal - that a war among or even between countries is ho-hum style survivable to the everyman citizen and only the military jarhead suffers a similar degree of human losses as if a nuclear war is the same as a conventional war.
Today a major nuclear war, or even a minor one, will not be skirmishes by military games per se, but rather directly toward the everyday citizens, e.g. you and me, of all countries involved in a nuclear war, but also including indirectly all other countries and life everywhere on the planet. That's why nuclear bombs are called WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction). There will no more wars fought on Earth's soil among foot-soldiers with rifles and machine guns, and hand grenades storming a beach, working their way inland, trying desperately to raise their country's flag in victory. Air strikes on military bases or government complexes aren't necessary in nuclear war. So it is that there are no heroic human beings in wars these days, but rather they will be just another living creature waiting to die from nuclear weapons and their cousins like nuclear power plants. There is no need for militaries to march their brainwashed soldiers in parades these days.
This is how WWII ended abruptly after six years (from 1939 to 1945, of brutal war, only to be over and done with in just 3 days in August by the atomic bombing of Japan's cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing about a quarter of a million innocent people, most of them instantly. Today's nuclear weapons are capable of killing millions of people in the same way on a single day with a single nuclear weapon that is capable of killing 30 times more people with a single blast than the atomic bombs of yore - and that doesn't count the miserable survivors who would die of radiation poisoning and other injuries not long afterword.
And then there is the increasing danger of the nuclear cousin -stationary nuclear WMDs - aka Nuclear Power Plants - that one small nuclear warhead could destroy any nuclear power plant and add hundreds to thousands of years of nuclear radiation that could easily end most all life, not just us'ns, on our only home we call Earth.
We humans are utter fools to allow 'anything nuclear' to remain in existence on this planet Earth that we humans and other life rely on to sustain us indefinitely, or perhaps forever. None of it is Mother Nature's fault; it is our fault. Why do we allow a plethora of super nuclear monsters (multiple kinds of them, actually) to exist that can easily end our entire existence. It is an unfair battle for sure - because what does uranium and its nuclear products have to lose if it doesn't exist? Common sense tells us the answer to that not-so-silly question. ~llaw
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TONIGHT’S CATEGORIZED NUCLEAR NEWS:
Nuclear Power
NEWS
US says reliance on Russian nuclear fuel presents national security risk - Financial Times
Financial Times
Kathryn Huff, assistant secretary for nuclear energy, told the Financial Times it was “gravely concerning” that about 20 per cent of fuel used by the ...
Nuclear-powered submarines for Australia's Royal Navy | 9 News Australia - YouTube
YouTube
The Royal Australian Navy is planning to employ thousands more mariners to deliver nuclear-powered submarines, making it the single the biggest ...
Investing in nuclear energy is bad for the climate, NGOs say
The European Environmental Bureau
Today, EU nuclear energy stakeholders are meeting at the European Nuclear Energy Forum. The nuclear industry and certain EU countries call for ...
All Things Nuclear
NEWS
40 Years Of Sounding The Alarm On Nuclear Winter | Science Friday - WNYC Studios
WNYC Studios
... nuclear arsenal now. To stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. Transcripts for each segment will be ...
China-US news: There's a sliver of good news — involving nukes - Vox
Vox
All of this is converging to bring Biden and Xi together, and that is ... nuclear deterrence strategy. But achieving that, especially in such a ...
Israel's Unintentional Nuclear Admission Raises Concerns | Gravitas Highlights - YouTube
YouTube
... all the updates. #israelpalestineconflict #wion #gaza About Channel ... that is not biased. We are journalists who are neutral to the core and non ...
Nuclear War
NEW
Israel's nuclear option remark raises 'huge number of questions': Russia - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
... nuclear weapons and is willing to use them ... Netanyahu's indecisive, distrustful nature adds to the dangers of his war on Gaza, say experts who've ...
Russia says Israeli nuclear remark raises 'huge number of questions' - Reuters
Reuters
... nuclear strike on Gaza had raised a huge number of questions ... War European armed forces treaty. 7 hours ago. Deputy head of Russia's ...
Amid Nuclear Rumours, USA Forced By Iran To Reveal Missile Info Of Submarine? - YouTube
YouTube
A day after announcing that an Ohio-class submarine of the US Navy had been sent to the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war, American officials ...
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
Israel-Hamas War: US Slams Israeli Minister's Nuclear Threats On Gaza - NDTV
NDTV
"Wholly Unacceptable": US Slams Israeli Minister's Nuclear Threats On Gaza. Israel-Hamas War: "We continue to believe that it is important for all ...
'Wholly unacceptable': US slams Israeli minister's nuclear threats on Gaza - Anadolu Ajansı
Anadolu Ajansı
WASHINGTON. US State Department on Monday said statements by an Israeli minister who threatened to consider using nuclear bombs in Gaza is "wholly ...
Rare Admission About U.S. Submarine Sparks Question About Nuclear Weapons
Newsweek
... threats of a larger regional conflict may stem from the intensifying war in Gaza, but one expert told Newsweek it may be more common than we think.
The latest Sky News coverage of the Russia/Ukraine war”:
Key points
Ukraine army to face 'big problem' - and analyst has pointed finger at Zelenskyy View post
Ukraine's president 'cancels Israel visit' over leaked plans View post
Russia formally withdraws from post-Cold War security treaty View post
Philip Ingram analysis:Who is winning the war? View post
Sean Bell explains:Why Russia is unlikely to seek end to war before US election View post
Your questions answered:How bad are sanctions making life for ordinary Russians? View post
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