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WORLD PEACE: Nuclear Weapons and Global Arsenals

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Are you relieved to know that a few lunatics who recently predicted the “End of Days” got the date wrong? Not to worry. The end it still coming. It’s already been planned, built and paid for by YOU and your “LEADERS”. The human race has developed enough nuclear weapons to turn every living creature on the planet into a lifeless chunk of charcoal more than 50 times over.  YOU AND I VOTE FOR THE CRIMINALS POLITICIANS WHO PASS LAWS TO GUARANTEE THAT THIS LUNACY CONTINUES. In case you haven’t been paying attention since 1945 when the first A-Bomb was tested, the human race is still racing:  toward total destruction of all life on Earth.  Here are a few facts to bring you up to speed on the real “End of Days”:

Globally there are now  approximately 23,000 nuclear warheads.
(Upated as of October 2009)

Russia 13,000
United States 9,400
France 300
China 240
United Kingdom 185
Israel 80
Pakistan 70-90
India 60-80
North Korea <10

Estimated Total:  23,375

This total is from the Federation of American Scientists source: http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nukestatus.html
Consequences of Using Nuclear Weapons by Dean Babst and David Krieger, 1997 

Nuclear Overkill

Since humanity can only destroy itself once, nuclear overkill serves no purpose, wastes billions of dollars in maintenance costs, and increases the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists, or by accident, miscalculation, or misunderstanding.

Russia has a nuclear weapons destructive force of 2,900 megatons, which is an ability to destroy humanity 29 times. Russia, which is in terrible financial shape, is wasting vast sums of money to maintain far more strategic nuclear warheads (7,150) than it can use without destroying itself.

The United States has a total nuclear weapons destructive force of 1,800 megatons, which is an ability to destroy humanity 18 times. While struggling mightily to reduce deficit spending, the U.S. is spending some $27 billion annually to maintain far more strategic nuclear warheads (7,250) than it can use without destroying itself.

While the total nuclear destructive power of the United Kingdom, France and China represents only a small part of the world’s nuclear weapons destructive force, it is still enough to destroy the world several times. Each of these countries is struggling with great difficulty to pay for their nuclear weapons.

The destructive power estimates are conservative since they only include the power of strategic nuclear weapons. If tactical nuclear weapons were added, the overkill capability would be even greater.

Israel, India and Pakistan also have the ability to produce and deliver nuclear weapons. As global awareness grows that nuclear weapons use is likely to be massively destructive, including self-destructive, hopefully these states, too, will reevaluate the appropriateness of maintaining nuclear arsenals.

Global Mental Block

Why does humanity waste vast sums maintaining far more nuclear weapons than are needed to destroy itself? In an earlier study we discovered the main reason for such illogical behavior is that there is a worldwide reluctance to think about what the consequences would be if nuclear weapons were used — a mental block. We discovered that virtually nothing is being published anywhere in the world on the self-destructive consequences of the use of nuclear weapons despite the great peril they present to all.

An example of this mental block was recently reported by General Lee Butler (USAF, Ret.). When General Butler became head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, he went to the Omaha headquarters to inspect the 12,000 targets in the former Soviet Union. He was shocked to find that dozens of warheads were aimed at Moscow (as the Soviets once targeted Washington). General Butler said, “We were totally out of touch with reality.”(20) U.S. planners had no grasp of the destructive power of nuclear weapons. One small nuclear warhead alone could destroy a major city.

While it is understandable that people are reluctant to think about how terrible the consequences of nuclear weapons use could be, this reluctance has allowed humankind to place itself in danger of self-annihilation, and to spend some $8 trillion over the course of the Nuclear Age doing so.”

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Compiled and commented upon by Lawrence R. Spencer.  https://lawrencerspencer.com

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CON-FEAR-ACY THEORY

confearacyCON  —
verb: persuade (someone) to do or believe something, typically by use of a deception.   (Examples:  mind “con-troll” operations of disinformation or lies created and spread by paid operators working for governments or propaganda agencies through television programs, advertising, political speeches, news programs, Facebook, newspapers, etc.. )

FEAR —
noun: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.  ( Example: when you feel like staying inside your house, taking drugs, and being suspicious that everyone and everything in your environment is a threat to our survival. )

THEORY —
noun: A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.  ( Example: Darwin’s theory of evolution )

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POWER ATTRACTS PATHOLOGICAL PERSONALITIES

POWER“All governments suffer a recurring problem:  Power attracts pathological  personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”

~ Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune ~

Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels.  The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with complex themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time.  Chapterhouse: Dune is the last in his Dune series of six novels. It rose to #2 on The New York Times Best Seller list.