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World War III Hell: A Nuclear War Between America, Russia, and China Would Kill Billions
By: Michael Peck - National Interest News - 12-25-20
Re: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/re...-kill-billions

The Cold War had too many close calls.

Key point: There is no winning in a nuclear confrontation, only avoiding catastrophe by not having one in the first place.

“Bomb them back into the Stone Age,” ex-Air Force general Curtis LeMay is reported to have once urged as a way to defeat North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

But it turns out that had global nuclear war erupted during the early 1960s, it would have been the Russians and Chinese who would have reverted to living like the Flintstones.

U.S. nuclear war plans called for the destruction of the Soviet Union and China as “viable societies,” according to documents revealed by the non-profit National Security Archive.

The document in question pertains to the Single Integrated Operational Plan, or SIOP, which governs the numerous war plans and their associated options that govern how America would fight a nuclear war. In June 1964, senior military leaders (including Air Force Chief of Staff LeMay) were sent a staff review of the current SIOP.

The report included questions and answers regarding the various nuclear targeting options. These ranged from attacks on enemy nuclear and conventional forces while minimizing collateral damage to enemy cities, to attacking cities as well as military forces on purpose. This latter option would have been "in order to destroy the will and ability of the Sino-Soviet Bloc to wage war, remove the enemy from the category of a major industrial power, and assure a post-war balance of power favorable to the United States."

“Should these options give more stress to population as the main target?” asked one question.

The answer was that Pentagon war plans already included the destruction of cities as a way to destroy the urban and industrial backbone. “This should result in greater population casualties in that a larger portion of the urban population may be placed at risk.”

In another Pentagon analysis “on the effect of placing greater emphasis on the attack of urban/industrial targets in order to destroy the USSR and China as viable societies, it was indicated that the achievement of a 30 per cent fatality level (i.e., 212.7 million people) in the total population (709 million people) of China would necessitate an exorbitant weight of effort.”

This was because of China’s rural society at the time. “Thus, the attack of a large number of place names [towns] would destroy only a small fraction of the total population of China. The rate of return for a [nuclear] weapon expended diminishes after accounting for the 30 top priority cities.”

Note that while annihilating one-third of China’s population was deemed uneconomical, the U.S. military took it for granted that the Soviet Union and China would be destroyed as viable societies.

Interestingly, Russia and China would be reduced to the level of Conan the Barbarian—but not Albania. “Should there be capability to withhold all attacks in Albania, Bulgaria and Romania?” asks the document.

The answer was that “the capability should exist to withhold attacks against Soviet satellites (either individually or collectively).” Other documents state that potential nuclear targets included the Sino-Soviet bloc—but not Yugoslavia.

About this writer: Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the National Interest.

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Will there be World War Three?
By The U.S. Sun News
Re: https://www.the-sun.com/news/212278/...tensions-rise/

Iran has pulled out of a nuclear deal and President Donald Trump has threatened to hit the country harder should Iran retaliate.

The president tweeted: "Should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner."

World War Three has been trending on Twitter and Google after the US assassinated Iran's top general Qasem Soleimani in Iraq.

Boris Johnson said General Qasem Soleimani had "the blood of British troops on his hands" and warned Iran not to repeat "reckless" attacks after ballistic missiles were fired at Iraqi air bases.

People have been expressing serious concern across the globe that the move will cause the outbreak of World War Three as Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei promised "harsh vengeance", "jihad" and "crushing revenge".

But Iran has said it doesn't want war and its retaliation for the general's killing is "now over".

Trump retaliated to Iranian threats, saying he will unleash $2trillion worth of new military equipment if US bases are targeted.

Tehran pinpointed 35 "key US targets" to attack - and in response, the US has threatened to attack 52 Iranian targets "very fast and very hard" if they retaliate.

Searches for "World War 3" also spiked on Google within hours of the airstrike in Iraq overnight.

Google Trends recorded "Iran" as the most searched term in the UK, with more than 500,000 searches for the topic.

But despite the speculation around World War Three, the US and Iran are known for their rhetoric, and it is unclear what revenge, if any, there will be.

Rising tensions between Iran and the US haven't been the only thing to cause speculation of an all-out war, however.

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Personally: As far a nuclear war - I think not - as least in the near future. They all know the ramifications of such an all out nuclear war. There are no winner's in a nuclear war. The radiation would spread around the globe and contaminate people - lands and water's - hence sterilizing the world as we know it. The few that would live through it won't survive much longer after it. It's a no win scenario for all parties world wide. But that doesn't stop them from building these God awful weapons - the money involved and the security needed to prevent a mishap that would trigger such an exchange - will be needed 24/7. The monies spent for these devices could have been used to increase their countries needs - but they don't seem to care. And we call ourselves human beings!?

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