Ukraine is a tragic example of anti-nuclear propaganda in action. My dad was 6 when WWII broke out, 12 when it was ended by two nuclear weapons, so studied the entire thing from beginning to end, and it left an impression. He was evacuated and suffered TB during the war, leaving him emasculated and vulnerable to chest infections. But he became a nuclear Civil Defence Corps instructor in the 50s, until secrecy drove him away (along with his boss, the civil defence officer of Colchester). We didn't have any way of surviving Nazi mustard gas, incendiaries and high explosives until 1938, so our weapons were an incredible deterrent to Hitler, who ignored them, and we sent Chamberlain to shake hitler's hand three times in Germany.
Appeasement in action! If we want to deter Putin, we have to match his civil defence. Russia has over 16,000 hardened shelters left over from the Cold War, now being refurbished on kremlin orders. We exaggerated the size of a megaton nuclear crater until 1988 by an immense factor, ignoring the energy used against gravity in excavating the ejecta in our computer models and relying on Pacific nuclear coral craters, which turned out to misrepresent Moscow's wet soft rock massively! We disarmed tactical nuclear weapons (British WE177's and yank W79's) by 1998, leaving Russia with 2000!
We have no way to defeat Putin's nuclear capability! First strike went out 60 years ago in the West. We're basically waiting for Putin to finish readying his nuclear shelters, and to detonate "nuclear tests" of 1 megaton yield 400 km above the North Sea, wiping out the electricity, internet, computers, etc of the West by EMP. We will then have to appease Russia, or Putin can simply start lowering the "test" altitude and start breaking windows and dusting us with fallout. At some point, he believes he can coerce us into surrender. There is little we can do, without giving him the excuse to "retaliate".
It's an awful problem, and the worst of it is, it's not just one madman Putin. There are loons throughout the Kremlin and Russian State TV, and in the Russian population, preparing for doomsday, just like the Nazis in the 30s. In fact, some of them think Putin is going too slowly. Then you have North Korea, China and Iran with their own anti-Western nuclear agendas. The Western mass media thinks it is all a "joke" and a "bluff" just as it discounted Hitler's threats in the 30s, Germany being a small, broke country which had been totally disarmed after WWI. Fools.
Ukraine is a tragic example of anti-nuclear propaganda in action. My dad was 6 when WWII broke out, 12 when it was ended by two nuclear weapons, so studied the entire thing from beginning to end, and it left an impression. He was evacuated and suffered TB during the war, leaving him emasculated and vulnerable to chest infections. But he became a nuclear Civil Defence Corps instructor in the 50s, until secrecy drove him away (along with his boss, the civil defence officer of Colchester). We didn't have any way of surviving Nazi mustard gas, incendiaries and high explosives until 1938, so our weapons were an incredible deterrent to Hitler, who ignored them, and we sent Chamberlain to shake hitler's hand three times in Germany.
Appeasement in action! If we want to deter Putin, we have to match his civil defence. Russia has over 16,000 hardened shelters left over from the Cold War, now being refurbished on kremlin orders. We exaggerated the size of a megaton nuclear crater until 1988 by an immense factor, ignoring the energy used against gravity in excavating the ejecta in our computer models and relying on Pacific nuclear coral craters, which turned out to misrepresent Moscow's wet soft rock massively! We disarmed tactical nuclear weapons (British WE177's and yank W79's) by 1998, leaving Russia with 2000!
We have no way to defeat Putin's nuclear capability! First strike went out 60 years ago in the West. We're basically waiting for Putin to finish readying his nuclear shelters, and to detonate "nuclear tests" of 1 megaton yield 400 km above the North Sea, wiping out the electricity, internet, computers, etc of the West by EMP. We will then have to appease Russia, or Putin can simply start lowering the "test" altitude and start breaking windows and dusting us with fallout. At some point, he believes he can coerce us into surrender. There is little we can do, without giving him the excuse to "retaliate".
It's an awful problem, and the worst of it is, it's not just one madman Putin. There are loons throughout the Kremlin and Russian State TV, and in the Russian population, preparing for doomsday, just like the Nazis in the 30s. In fact, some of them think Putin is going too slowly. Then you have North Korea, China and Iran with their own anti-Western nuclear agendas. The Western mass media thinks it is all a "joke" and a "bluff" just as it discounted Hitler's threats in the 30s, Germany being a small, broke country which had been totally disarmed after WWI. Fools.
Really interesting and revealing comments, thank you ...