Iida Siimes.: "Diplomatiaa ennen tuomiopäivää" , Voima 2/2024
Norjan Kirkkoniemeltä käsin raportoiva Barents Observer julkaisee uutisia Arktisista alueista ja erityisesti Venäjän valtavista Kuolan niemimaan ydintukikohdista. Kun lehden päätoimittaja Thomas Nilsen vieraili Helsingissä esitelmöimässä journalisteille vuoden 2024 tammikuussa, hän vei yleisöltään yöunet pitkäksi aikaa. Nilsen kertoi, miten veden alla ydinvoimalla kulkevaa ja ydinkärkeä kantavaa nopeaa Poseidon-torpedoa ei voi mitenkään torjua. Kun se on laukaistu liikkeelle, se kulkee vääjäämättä maaliinsa. Jos se räjähtää esimerkiksi Venäjän oletettujen vihollismaiden, kuten Yhdysvaltain tai Britannian rannikolla, sen räjähdysvoima ja aiheuttama tsunami tuhoavat koko rannikon. Myöhemmin ydinlaskeuma tuhoaa vielä lisää.
Tiedeyhteisö ympäri maailmaa nimittää Poseidonia ”tuomiopäivän aseeksi”. Putin on uhonnut rakentavansa näitä ainakin kolmekymmentä.
Venäjällä on maailman suurin ydinasearsenaali. Maa ei kunnioita diplomatian eikä sodan sääntöjä. Venäjä ei ole edes julistanut sotaa Ukrainaa vastaan, mutta se sotii maassa silti, jo yhdennettätoista vuotta.
An der Verlässlichkeit der USA als NATO-Partner bestehen seit einer Trump-Rede große Zweifel. SPD-Europakandidatin Barley hat deshalb EU-eigene Atombomben ins Spiel gebracht. Brandgefährlich sei das, kritisiert ein Parteigenosse.
This new weapon, dubbed the B61-13, is expected to deliver around 360 kilotons of destructive power – 21 times the yield of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945; it will be among the most powerful nukes in the U.S. arsenal.
Newsweek 29.11.23: A new nuclear warhead has been approved and cleared for use in a variety of U.S. aircraft, notably the B-2A Spirit bomber. The warhead is part of continuing efforts to modernize the nation's nuclear stockpile for military use.
Spirit will be the first domestic combat aircraft to employ the B61-12 nuclear bomb, unveiled Monday as part of the 335-page unclassified Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP), a report for the 2024 fiscal year by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The latter works within the Department of Energy (DOE) and designs, produces, delivers and certifies the nation's nuclear stockpile for military operation.
In October, the House of Representatives approved a resolution to increase defense spending in fiscal year 2024 by about $1.11 billion over the current fiscal year—including $19.114 billion for the continued modernization of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile and infrastructure and $1.946 billion for naval warships.
Collectively, the world’s estimated 12,512 nuclear warheads belong to just nine countries. However, there are more than two dozen additional countries that participate in nuclear mission-related arrangements. While these countries do not have direct launch authority over any nuclear warheads, they play an important role in their storage, planning, delivery, and safety and use-control, and therefore merit a degree of scrutiny alongside their nuclear-armed peers.
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades.
Utrikes- och säkerhetspolitiska källor uppger för tidningen Iltalehti att finska regeringens lagförslag om anslutning till Nato tillåter försvarsalliansen att föra kärnvapen till finskt territorium. -Jag anser att det är mycket viktigt att vi inte sätter den sortens förhandsvillkor, eller begränsar vårt manöverutrymme, när det gäller permanenta baser eller kärnvapen, sa statsminister Sanna Marin i tv på lördagen.
A Four Corners investigation can reveal the US Air Force is planning to deploy up to six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Tindal air base near Darwin, as fears grow that China is preparing for an assault on Taiwan.
A near-disaster at a federal nuclear weapons laboratory takes a hidden toll on America's arsenal
Repeated safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work on the cores of U.S. nuclear warheads
Gower’s position creates — in the phrase coined by Professor Robert J. Lifton — an “atrocity producing situation” by institutionalizing blind obedience, and the world well knows what it led to in Hitler’s fascist regime. The claim that submarine commanders have no choice but to obey when ordered to attack with nuclear weapons is a clear violation of the Nuremberg Charter, Principles and Judgment. It was Gower’s shocking assertion that such orders cannot be disobeyed that forced Cdr. Forsyth to publicly lambast his comrade in arms
there Admiral Charles Richard was in April this year, with his siren calls, urging the US Senate to consider a simple proposition. “Sustainment of modernization of our modern nuclear forces … has transitioned from something we should do, to something we must do.” As Commander of the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM), he was aching to impress the Senate Committee on Armed Services that the nuclear deterrent was there to be polished and improved.
Jonathan Power, journalist. IDN-InDepthNews is flagship agency of the global International Press Syndicate Group speaking out for people, planet and peace.
“The real differentiator here is the acquisition strategy, with a lot of competition -- a lot of ‘fly before you buy’ -- built in,” CSIS' Tom Karako says. “The relatively longer NGI development timeline for homeland ballistic missile defense can be mitigated by near-term improvements” in ground missile defense.
The Atlantic Council has printed a 26,000-word anonymous report laying a strategy for the US to combat China, including regime change.
MintPress News | Alan Macleod | 3 feb.
The head of Strategic Command announced the United States must prepare for the “very real possibility” of nuclear war with China or Russia.
December 3 webinar hosted together with the Asia-Europe People's Forum a webinar on Military Spending & Global
(In)Security to discuss how current levels of military spending condition
our global emergencies. Speakers include: Michael T. Klare, Binalakshmi
Nepram, Tarja Cronberg and Walden Bello, and moderators will be Jordi Calvo
and Corazon Valdez Fabros.
The webinar coincides with the presentation of the book edited by GCOMS
coordinator Jordi Calvo "Military Spending and Global Security.
Humanitarian and Environmental Perspectives", published on
November 26 by Routledge. The book gives context to the discussion at
hand, reflecting on why people are not well served by nation-states when
they continuously seek to out-compete one another in the size and
destructive powers of their militaries. The webinar deals with the
scope of military spending around the world, while explaining how militarism
is linked with conflict and security threats, and how military spending
further prevent us from adequately dealing with global problems such as
climate change or the covid-19 pandemic.
By Subrata Ghoshroy, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. October 6, 2020
In July, both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed their own versions of a defense authorization bill for 2021. By a wide majority, both chambers authorized more than $740 billion for defense spending next year. Tucked away in the Senate bill was $20.3 billion for missile defense, and that funding could make it into the final version that lands on the president’s desk. While $20.3 billion may not seem significant in a $740 billion budget, it is nevertheless a startling figure. What’s more, US taxpayers have invested nearly $200 billion on missile defense in the past two decades and another $100 billion in the decade before, with little to show for it.
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons [1996] ICJ 2 is a landmark international law case, where the International Court of Justice gave an advisory opinion stating that there is no source of law, customary or treaty, that explicitly prohibits the possession or even use of nuclear weapons. The only requirement being that their use must be in conformity with the law on self-defence and principles of international humanitarian law.[1]
Hans M. Kristensen & alios i Bulletin of the Atoic Scientists
Ingress: "The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their military capabilities. In reality, however, that program has implemented revolutionary new technologies that will vastly increase the targeting capability of the US ballistic missile arsenal. This increase in capability is astonishing—boosting the overall killing power of existing US ballistic missile forces by a factor of roughly three—and it creates exactly what one would expect to see, if a nuclear-armed state were planning to have the capacity to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike."
En debatt som saknades om värdlandsavtalet i Finland har gått desto hetare i Sverige – avtalet godkänns först efter förbud mot kärnvapen på svensk mark.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Austria on Tuesday called for banning nuclear weapons because of their catastrophic humanitarian effects, an initiative it said now has the backing of 159 countries.
Hagel announces reforms of U.S. nuclear forces---U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday announced an action plan to reform the country's military nuclear enterprise and called for additional investments in sustainment as well as measures to raise the morale of the nuclear forces.
The website is supported by Pavel Podvig. He has been the principal investigator of the Russian Nuclear Forces project from its very beginning and was the editor of the Russian and English editions of the book Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Pavel Podvi
Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
Link to PDF of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , Volume 65, Number 6, November/December 2009 DOI 10.2968/065006010 Online Date Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Authors Robert S. Norris, Hans M. Kristensen. "As the United States and Russia continue to conso
By CARL BILDT and RADEK SIKORSKI Published: February 1, 2010 The actual numbers are obviously closely held secrets. A recent report by the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament indicates that the United States possesses appr
Timothy Garton Ash on the Global Zero initiative in The Globe and Mail, publ 3 Feb 2010. "Effective nuclear disarmament will require intrusive verification, which most of the sovereignty-conscious great powers are extremely reluctant to concede. Indeed,
Pourquoi la France concentrerait-elle les critiques, et non la Chine ? Nous sommes dans la ligne de mire. Les militants pour l'abolition ont le sentiment que les "petits" pays dotés de l'arme, comme la France, sont un maillon faible et qu'on peut donc foc
The NPR explicitly rejects reducing the high-alert status of ICBMs and strategic submarines (SSBNs), concluding that “the current alert posture of U.S. strategic forces - with heavy bombers off full-time alert, nearly all ICBMs on alert, and a significant
"It was announced yesterday that the United States will have a missile defense shield to cover its allies by 2018. Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, told the House of Representatives Armed Serv
Reuters 15 april 2010 av Jim Wolf Usas antiballistiska missilsystem ska år 2018 täcka hela Europa, sa en tjänsteman vid Pentagon och utmålade ett ambitiöst mål för försvaret av ett upplevt hot utifrån Iran. ”Ett hundra procent,” sa Bradley Roberts, vid fö