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the submarine launch of an RSM-56 Bulava intercontinental range ballistic missile from the Sea of Okhotsk near Japan. The new missile class was operationalised in 2018, and is deployed from the country’s most modern class of nuclear powered strategic submarine the Borei Class. Each missile carries up to 1.5 megatons of nuclear force split between up to ten warheads - approximately 100 times the nuclear force used against Hiroshima by the U.S. Army Air Force in 1945. 

Nuclear energy is facing a renaissance in Europe . By Knut Krohn, The numbers speak for themselves and the supporters are putting a lot of pressure on ..." "Supporters put pressure on: Is nuclear power coming back to Europe? The EU's first nuclear power summit will take place in Brussels on Thursday. A renaissance of nuclear energy is probably imminent - especially of small reactors.  

21/08/2024

• Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat New York Times  Pentagon believes China’s stockpiles will rival the size and diversity of the United States’ and Russia’s over the next decade./ In the past, the likelihood that American adversaries could coordinate nuclear threats to outmaneuver the American nuclear arsenal seemed remote. But the emerging partnership between Russia and China, and the conventional arms North Korea and Iran are providing to Russia for the war in Ukraine have fundamentally changed Washington’s thinking.  / 

•  China’s nuclear force - the Pentagon’s estimates that China’s nuclear force would expand to 1,000 by 2030 and 1,500 by 2035, roughly the numbers that the United States and Russia now deploy.

• North Korea Nuclear Force - Mr. Kim has doubled down, and now has more than 60 [nuclear] weapons, officials estimate, and the fuel for many more. That expansion has changed the nature of the North Korean challenge: When the country possessed just a handful of weapons, it could be deterred by missile defenses. But its expanded arsenal is fast approaching the size of Pakistan’s and Israel’s, and it is large enough that it could, in theory, coordinate threats with Moscow and Beijing.

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210324 Nuclear energy is facing a renaissance in Europe,  por tagesspiegel 

 "Supporters put pressure on: Is nuclear power coming back to Europe?

The EU's first nuclear power summit will take place in Brussels on Thursday. A renaissance of nuclear energy is probably imminent - especially of small reactors. 

By Knut Krohn

Nuclear energy is facing a renaissance in Europe . The numbers speak for themselves and the supporters are putting a lot of pressure on ..."

070324 "nuclear weapons spread

Given who we are, I’ve always found it somewhat miraculous that, since those atomic bombs were dropped on two Japanese cities, even as nuclear weapons spread and grew ever more powerful, another never was used (unless you count the above-ground nuclear tests of the 1950s that did indeed harm small numbers of human beings). Now, however, the great powers on the planet are once again in a global nuclear arms race; key arms treaties have been left in the dust of history; rumors are rife about such weaponry spreading into space; and two nuclear powers — Russia and Israel — are at war at this very moment (even if not with each other). The Russian leadership has indeed threatened to use what are now called “tactical” nuclear weapons in its conflict with Ukraine, though most of them are significantly more powerful than the bombs that took out Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Only recently, in fact, Russian President Vladimir Putin similarly threatened to use nuclear weaponry against European countries and the possible “destruction of civilization.”"

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/06/living-on-the-wrong-world/#:~:text=Given%20who%20we,destruction%20of%20civilization.%E2%80%

12072021 A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER

the Doomsday Clock setting at 100 seconds to midnight [According to Chomsky] is based upon: 

(1) global warming 

(2) nuclear war and 

(3) disinformation, or

4 the collapse of any kind of rational discourse. 

As such, number three makes it impossible to deal with the first two major problems. 

Along those lines, within the Republican Party there’s virtually a disappearance of any pretense of rational discourse. Twenty-five (25%) percent of Republicans believe the government is run by an elite satanic group of pedophiles. Seventy percent (70%) of Republicans believe that the election was stolen. Only fifteen percent (15%) of Republicans believe that global warming is a serious problem. Therein lies an insurmountable problem to solving the main issues that continually tick the clock ever closer to a disaster scenario that will likely be unprecedented in the annals of warfare and environmental degradation.

JULY 12, 2021

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair