Germany's ZDF public television network reports that the
U.S. will bring into Germany 20 new nuclear bombs, each being four times the
destructive power of the one that was used on Hiroshima.
A former Parliamentary State Secretary in Germany's Defense
Ministry, Willy Wimmer, of Chancellor Merkel's own conservative party, the
Christian Democratic Union, warns that these “new attack options against
Russia” constitute “a conscious provocation of our Russian neighbors.”
"With the new bombs [Type B61-12] the boundaries blur between tactical and
strategic nuclear weapons," criticizes Hans Kristensen of the Nuclear
Information Project (Atomic Scientists) in Washington.
German Economic News also reports on Chancellor Merkel's
decision to allow these terror-weapons against Russia: "The Bundestag
decided in 2009, expressing the will of most Germans, that the US should
withdraw its nuclear weapons from Germany. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel
did nothing.”
And now she okays the U.S. to increase America's
German-based nuclear arsenal against Russia.
The Bundestag decided in March 2010 by a large majority,
that the federal government should 'press for the withdrawal of US nuclear
weapons from Germany.' Even the coalition agreement between the CDU and FDP,
the German government in 2009 had promised the withdrawal of nuclear weapons
from Büchel. But instead there will be these new bombs
Other European locations of US nuclear weapons as the air
bases in Incirlik in Turkey and Aviano in
Italy to be modernized and to be retrofitted with new nuclear bombs of
the type B 61-12.
the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists estimates that it contains
about 4,700 active warheads. That
includes a range of bombs and land-based and submarine-based missiles. If, for
instance, a single Ohio Class nuclear submarine -- and the Navy has 14 of them
equipped with nuclear missiles -- were to launch its 24 Trident missiles, each
with 12 independently targetable megaton warheads, the major cities of any
targeted country in the world could be obliterated and millions of people would
die. Indeed, the detonations and ensuing fires would send up so much smoke and
particulates into the atmosphere that the result would be a nuclear winter,
leading to worldwide famine and the possible deaths of hundreds of millions,
including Americans (no matter where the missiles went off).
The Obama administration is planning for the spending of up
to a trillion dollars over the next 30 years to modernize and upgrade America's
nuclear forces. Given that the current U.S. arsenal represents extraordinary
overkill capacity -- it could destroy many Earth-sized planets -- none of those
extra taxpayer dollars will gain Americans the slightest additional
“deterrence” or safety. For the nation's security, it hardly matters whether,
in the decades to come, the targeting accuracy of missiles whose warheads would
completely destroy every living creature within a multi-mile radius was reduced
from 500 meters to 300 meters.
In 2012, a report from a high-level committee chaired by
former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright
concluded that “no sensible argument has been put forward for using nuclear
weapons to solve any of the major 21st century problems we face [including]
threats posed by rogue states, failed states, proliferation, regional
conflicts, terrorism, cyber warfare, organized crime, drug trafficking, conflict-driven
mass migration of refugees, epidemics, or climate change. In fact, nuclear
weapons have on balance arguably become more a part of the problem than any
solution.”
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