1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
The Soviet Union had a launch on warning protocol as part of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction. A whole lot of folks on this subreddit seem to think that if the Milley story is true, that we went behind Trump's back to prevent a nuclear war, that he should be courtmartialed for treason/mutiny/etc. Presumably they think that Stanislav Petrov should have met the same fate at the hands of the Soviet military justice system. I think that thats absurd and I wonder whether people here really think that Stanislav Petrov did the wrong thing.
https://imgur.com/a/Kvod15I
Here's some photos of the box, it's still sealed from when I bought it!
Just listening to audiobook and am not at all surprised by the things described in the book. Things slowly reverse engineered from Roswell crash and introduced to military and commercial market seems to me very plausible, things like fiber optics, night vision, lasers, magnetic drive. What are your thoughts on this? Has anyone read or listened to it?
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA2]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Financial Services and House Committee on the Budget which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA2] is a member of the House Committee on the Budget.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/13/lawrence_wilkerson_american_empire_war
I'm copying the first paragraph of the story, verbatim, because it introduces him and describes what follows. The interview begins at 27:20 in the linked video. It is the second part of a two-part interview.
A number of his comments include the most coherent rebuttal I have heard of the Western media's narrative as related to Iran.
>This is Democracy Now! Iβm Amy Goodman, as we continue to look at U.S. policy in the Middle East with retired United States Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005. Wilkerson witnessed and participated in the effort by President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others to promote lies to justify the disastrous illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. Colonel Wilkerson helped Secretary of State Powell prepare his infamous February 5th, 2003, speech before the United Nations Security Council, where Powell falsely claimed Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction. Wilkerson and Powell would later say the CIA lied to them.
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>I talked to Colonel Wilkerson last week and asked him about the parallels between the escalation between the U.S. and Iran today and the 2003 run-up to war with Iraq.
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