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How Israel is secretly creating a nuclear bubble - and why it's threatening war with Iran. ( topwar.ru )

Israel pursues a policy of "nuclear ambiguity": it does not sign the NPT, does not allow international inspectors to visit its facilities (such as Dimona), and is widely believed to possess a significant number of nuclear warheads. At the same time, it was Tel Aviv that was one of the loudest denouncers of the Iranian nuclear ...

Secret Transactions: How Nuclear Powers Use Private Companies to Hide Costs of Deterrence ( www.forbes.com )

In recent years, there has been a steady trend: nuclear-weapon States are increasingly resorting to the services of private companies and government structures to conceal the real scale of funding for their strategic deterrence programs. This practice makes it possible to circumvent public control over military spending and, in ...

Only one American can start a nuclear war: The president ( www.washingtonpost.com )

Three minutes, a football and a biscuit. These are all a president of the United States needs to start nuclear war. During a 1974 meeting with lawmakers, President Richard M. Nixon reportedly stated: “I can go into my office and pick up the telephone, and in 25 minutes 70 million people will be dead.” He was correct. And ...

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one ( www.theguardian.com )

Like Toto in The Wizard of Oz, at their 1985 summit in Geneva President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev pulled back the curtain to reveal the truth behind the terrifying spectre of nuclear war, which their countries were spending hundreds of billions of dollars to prepare for. “A nuclear war cannot be ...

MH-139A “Grey Wolf”: The New Guardian of America’s Nuclear Convoys ( theaviationist.com )

The U.S. Air Force’s new MH-139A “Grey Wolf” helicopter recently took part for the first time in a Nuclear Convoy Course (NCC) exercise — a key week-long training event that plays a vital role in ensuring the safe transport of nuclear weapons and materials. Boeing is already seeing a surge in orders, although the full ...

Mike3322 OP ,

The U.S. already possesses a powerful nuclear arsenal. So why expand it if the goal is purely deterrence? Is the Pentagon exaggerating the threats to secure more funding? It's hard to imagine any bomber making it to a nuclear-armed adversary and successfully dropping a bomb, especially with today’s advanced missile defense systems — let alone making it back. How will modernization shift the balance of power? Will it make the world safer, or could it lead to greater instability? What do you think?