First up: if Wikileaks is to be believed, the Obama administration has offered to sell out our British allies. How fun.
A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.
Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.
Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.
If true, this is Big News. But I wouldn’t expect to see much about it on CNN.
Up next: the governor of Tokyo (shouldn’t that be “mayor?” Shrug) apparently wants nukes.
Shintaro Ishihara, 78, a former actor and author who has been governor of Tokyo since 1999 and has frequently provoked anger among Japan’s neighbours, made his latest demand after a diplomatic row sparked by the arrest of a Chinese fishing vessel captain operating in Japanese waters.
“If Japan had had nuclear (weapons), there would not have been any (Chinese encroachment) on the Senkakus,” he said. “And North Korea would not have abducted our citizens.”
Neat. This is sure to go over well.
6 Responses to “Nukes In The News”
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For being a vital state secret, Wikipedia sure seem to know a lot about the UK Trident force’s details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Trident_programme
Pat
If this is proven top be true, the U.S. is done as a perceived world leader! If this President has in fact done what is charged in the leaked cables, he must be impeached immediately! As Pat asked above. Were the people in the Senate notified as required of this action? If so, why did the Senate vote to allow this to happen? Or is it possible this is another “we didn’t read the entire thing” moment? If in fact the leaders of the Senate did in fact have knowledge of this action then they to should be brought up on charges!
Again, this is alleged but something I feel is in line with the actions of this Marxist we now have in the White House. Very scary!
> Wikipedia sure seem to know a lot
It’s the “seems to know” part that’s important. Everyone may thoink there are X many Trident missiles, but if you fork over the serial numbers, that (spposedly) pretty much nails down exactly how many there are. Additionally, if the Russian intelligence system is any good, the serial numbers themselves can tell a lot. Is a missile from early in the production run, mid, late? Would it have been eqauipped with X, Y or Z equipment? Due to known production and performance variations, would such and such missile have performed in such and such a way?
SLBMs are not truly wooden rounds, but have performance variations. It might not make much (or any) of a difference for Russia to know, b ut you don’t need to spread around any more info than you have to. And spreading around someone else’s info is just… rude.
I’m not sure atom bombs would prevent the legendary abductions, nor do I have any reason to believe China would be any easier to deal with. Threats only work when both sides know that carrying out the threat will cost the threatee more than it will cost the threator.
Threats also only work when the side you’re threatening believes there is a chance you will actually carry out the threat. At the rate the US is going, we WILL have to actually nuke anyone before anyone believes we’ll ever carry out a threat again.
And you have to admit, if there’s a single country anywhere on the face of the earth that deserves a nuke, it’s NKorea.
First the blueprints for the B-2, and now this. Will it never end? Wait, only two more years and Sarah will make it all better.