Russian nuclear bombers intercepted near Guam

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9. Nothing bogus about it.

I take it you made this statement without actually studying the implications.

Those old Bears didn't fly thousands of miles with only conventional warheads on their cruise missiles capable of 1200 mile strikes.

Nobody should "freak out." But the people obsessed with the ME and the Kardashians are also the people who laugh off a rising China asserting itself, a country who teaches their children from birth the the US is their sworn enemy developing nukes, and Russia asserting itself with cold-war tactics.

Flying near Guam, which we have recently placed B-2s, on the night of the SOTU, was no accident. It was the most dangerous world event since they simulated an attack on Alaska and California in 2009 (where our interceptors are based). Before that it was rolling tanks into Georgia, and the US docking ships there.

We all seem to live in this bubble that rational people have their "finger on the button." But when you leave the world's fate up to mid-level officers flying a plane, shit can happen.

It is bad enough that Boris Yeltsin saved man-kind in 1995, when he was being told he had only minutes to launch a full-scale counter attack on the US.

"This event resulted in a full alert being passed up through the military chain of command all the way to President Boris Yeltsin, who was notified immediately and the "nuclear briefcase" (known in Russia as Cheget) used to authorize nuclear launch was automatically activated. President Boris Yeltsin activated his "nuclear keys" for the first time. No warning was issued to the Russian populace of any incident; it was reported in the news a week afterward.[1]

As a result of the alert, Russian submarine commanders were ordered to go into a state of combat readiness and prepare for nuclear retaliation.

After a while, Russian observers were able to determine that the rocket was heading away from Russian airspace and was not a threat. The rocket fell to earth as planned, near Spitsbergen, 24 minutes after launch.[1]

The Norwegian rocket incident was the first and only incident where any nuclear weapons state had its nuclear suitcases activated and prepared for launching an attack.[1]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident



I am not picking on you, I am just astonished at the indifference people have to the threat of nuclear war. Maybe it is because so many youth can only see you-tube videos of atmospheric tests, so it is like a distant fantasy that can never happen.

A presentation of the horrors of a Trinity, let alone a Castle Bravo, or god forbid a Tsar Bomba, might be needed to remind the world just how scary these weapons are. Edit: And of course I dont mean on people.