NUCLEAR WAR PILLOW TALK

"Mr. and Mrs. Nuclear War", The New York Times Sunday Book Review of The Cold War They Made by Ron Robin, reviewed by Philip Taubman.
Mr. Taubman is the author of the highly-praised The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb.



                                               

   



                                                      

Taubman calls Mr. Robin's book "a withering indictment of the Wohlstetters and their influence on defense policy."

The husband and wife RAND Corporation analysts championed the Cold War policy of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) which still influences our Nuclear Posture and theory today.

Taubman notes: "White House or Kremlin miscalculation would have left millions dead, nations destroyed and the planet reeling."
WORSE, Albert Wohlstetter "pressed for a nuclear war-winning policy."

Yet, the POTUS often decried as a "war hawk", Ronald Reagan, warned:
"A Nuclear War cannot be won and must never be fought."


                                             

It is way beyond Halloween scary that our political and military leadership today are pushing for "modernization" of our already deadly, destructive Nuclear Arsenals and planning for their actual use in Nuclear war scenarios. 
No Doomsday Doubts for them! While the rest of us continue to live with this threat of continuous Annihilation.


                                                

Both Russia and the US together have  thousands of Nuclear Weapons on "hair-trigger alert" - Ready to Launch on Notice.
What Mr. Taubman calls "surreal madness."


                                                  

In debate Candidate Clinton pointed out that the POTUS has only about 4 minutes to decide whether or not a Nuclear Attack is real and whether or not to launch the weapons that will destroy humanity, the world and all future generations. OMNICIDE and ABORTION on an unimaginable scale.

But Imagine IT and Face IT, we must. A necessary first step to stop IT from ever happening....
The alternative is to do Nothing... and hope that Nothing Happens Forever....

                                               
                                                 

WE, THE PEOPLE, need to change this extremely dangerous situation.

START WORKING NOW from the Ground Up!

BE INFORMED on This ISSUE OF ISSUES!
Know the four presidential candidates' positions. VOTE accordingly on November 8. Vote for yourselves and for your children and grandchildren. It may be our Present but it is their Future. We need to ensure that they will have one....
                                                   
                                                     

                                                       


There are many Anti-Nuclear Weapons organizations that you can explore, join and/or donate to. SEE The Nuclear Abolitionist Blog for an extensive list of Links.

NYTS Book Review

ABOLITION IN OUT TIME. BEFORE WE RUN OUT OF TIME.


                                                    

GOT 12 MINUTES? NUCLEAR WAR AND THAT LAST CUP OF COFFEE

Think of our daily lives. What can we do in 12 minutes?

At work, we're taking a coffee break. At school, the kids are eating lunch or enjoying recess.The mailman is delivering letters on our street.
                                                   
                                                     

                                                    


                                               

We're running an errand to the store. Running some books over to the library. Putting gas in the car.
Checking our e-mail. Maybe making an on-line purchase.
Taking a nap.


                                                    

In that same 12 minutes, the President of the United States can take the Nuclear Football with its computer code cards, unlock our "hair-trigger" Nuclear Warheads and launch the war that really will end it all.


                                                   

                                                  

                                                       

WORLD WAR III.

No one will be left - not us, not any future generation - to ever start any war anywhere ever again on what would be left of this earth.

Like his shadow, the bulky satchel follows the President around. The Vice-President is trailed by his own, duplicate, shadow.


                                                  

There have been so many "close call", "near misses"with the world's Nuclear Weapons Arsenals. Examples:

1979 - Full scale launch against Soviet Union averted at last minute when U.S. Nuclear Weapons operators realize that they are watching a training video and not an actual attack on the U.S.

1996 - Russian President Yeltsin and his military mistake a research rocket launch for U.S. missiles heading for their homeland.
Yeltsin is handed "the football" and is ready to launch when the "error" is discovered.
                                                See Command and Control Book and Upcoming Documentary Film
Any of these "false alarms" could have triggered Nuclear War.


                                                 

That war which President Ronald Reagan said "can never be won and must never be fought".
                                                   

                                                     

Why do we put up with this?!
We do not have to sit by and wait for the inevitable to happen.

But as former Secretary of Defense William J Perry has reminded us, we must take action soon for Time Is Not On Our Side here.


                                                    

"The indefinite combination of human fallibility and Nuclear Weapons carries a high risk of a potential catastrophe." Secretary of Defense, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Robert S. McNamara
                                            

                                                 

We cannot continue to allow a small group of "experts" in the Nine Nuclear Armed Nations to make Life and Death Decisions for everyone now living and for future generations yet to be born.

This situation is immoral and unconscionable!

We CAN and MUST do something about it.

100 Scientists (20 Nobel Prize winners) recently sent a letter to Mr. Obama advocating an end to our harrowing "hair-trigger alert" Nuclear Weapons posture.CLICK
SEE Letter
                                                  

                                                

As citizens we can organize demonstrations. See the "Nuclear Freeze" movement's Million Person Gathering in Central Park in 1982.CLICK

AND in this Election Year, with the debates coming up, we can ask the candidates to state their positions on this crucial issue.
AND know your Senators and Representatives positions.
                                               


                                                       

                                                   

                                                   
                                                    

                                                      

                                                     

AND then VOTE! 

We can support and/or be involved in Legal Movements here and around the world:

The current Marshall Islands Lawsuits against the Nuclear Armed Nations.


                                                      

The International Humanitarian Pledge Initiative now signed on to by 127 nations demanding a Legal Ban on Nuclear Weapons.


                                                  

Please read our previous Posts and Links on this issue!

Be informed. Take a position. Act within the Law.
This is still a Democracy. We can make our voices heard. Our opinions count.

"Speak Truth To Power" is not a cliche. It really does work!
(See recent Textron Corp. decision to stop all production of Cluster Bombs).CLICK                           

                                               
                                                    

It is our weapon of Self-Defense against the most deadly, devastating weapon in history.

ABOLITION IN OUR TIME!


                                                    

THE ONLY GOOD NUKE IS A DISMANTLED ONE