US Air Force officials say they aren’t planning to nuke anybody in particularly, but they are preparing to resume a 24-hour ready alert for nuclear bombers, the first time they’ve had such a role since 1991.
There is no order for the Air Force to actually do this, but officials say they are scrambling to get ready to implement such a measure because they’re anticipating that such a order might conceivably be made very, very soon.
Stratcom or Northcom commanders would have to make a specific order for such a move, but Air Force chief Gen. David Goldfein is said to be increasingly interested in getting the nuclear arsenal ready.
Not only that, officials say Goldfein has been asking his advisers to think up new ways that the nuclear weapons “could be used for deterrence, or even combat,” saying that he believes the world is a dangerous place, and it’s important to prepare the nuclear arms.
Thank God we elected the guy who wasn’t going to get us into WWIII.
…..and he probably wouldn’t have, if it wasn’t for the phony baloney bs about Russian collusion.
General “Buck” Turgidson: [Gesturing to the Big Board] When the Russians see that on their radar, they are going to go absolutely ***APE***.
Who still uses radar for this?
More scary than the headline is the clear violation of the NPT from a new generation of nuclear weapons. A rogue nation is threatening the world, and it is ours.
Isn’t the madness gone on long enough?
Great minds R.P., great minds. 🙂
If we’d stop butting into the internal affairs of nations all over the world, it wouldn’t be near as dangerous as it is.
“Doomsday Gap” says it all. Terry Southern was a great American.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt with its strike group is on the way now also. Of course, Friday’s Executive Order 13223 amendment now specifies Secretary Mattis has unrestricted ability to recall ALL retired military personnel of The United States Armed Forces, as specified by Section 10 688 and 690. Saturday, a Hercules C-130J flew over my house in Rhode Island, going west.
1,000 Air Force pilots can no longer enjoy their retirements. Although the preference is still for a DPRK stand-down and desist so The United States doesn’t have to breach poor optics and inflame the Korean Peninsula before the Winter Olympics, Kim Jong-Un is literally one move away from triggering
all-out war. Indications by South Korea and Japan are ready to roll.
President Trump is excited at the prospect.
Many Americans are also excited.
What kind of ‘alert’ status have US nuclear forces been on since the termination of SAC? While there have been far more applications of air force, the essential threat of nuclear war has never abated. No ‘alert status’ or practicing the same, is really stupid.
It’s like giving a loaded gun to a chimpanzee.