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Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">US Strategic Command, the
branch of the US military responsible for America's nuclear
arsenal, <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://twitter.com/US_Stratcom/status/1384343498825027584?s=20">tweeted</a>
the following on Tuesday:</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">"The spectrum of conflict
today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the
possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very
rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as their
least bad option."</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">The statement, which
STRATCOM called a "preview" of the Posture Statement it submits
to US Congress every year, was a bit intense for Twitter and <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.newsweek.com/us-strategic-command-tweet-nuclear-war-1584909">sparked
a lot of alarmed responses</a>. This alarm was due not to any
inaccuracy in STRATCOM's frank statement, but due to the bizarre
fact that our world's increasing risk of nuclear war barely
features in mainstream discourse.</p>
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Posture Statement Preview: The spectrum of conflict today is
neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the
possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could
very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as
their least bad option. <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://t.co/4Oe7xkl05L">pic.twitter.com/4Oe7xkl05L</a></p>
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color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">— US
Strategic Command (@US_Stratcom) <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://twitter.com/US_Stratcom/status/1384343498825027584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April
20, 2021</a></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">STRATCOM has been preparing
not just to use its nuclear arsenal for deterrence but <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/10/29/americas-still-strangelovian-schemes-to-win-nuclear-wars/">also
to "win" a nuclear war</a> should one arise from the (entirely
US-created) "conditions" which are "neither linear nor
predictable". And it's <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://news.antiwar.com/2021/02/03/us-admiral-warns-nuclear-war-with-russia-china-is-a-real-possibility/">looking
increasingly likely</a> that one will as the <a style="color:
#2585B2;" href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/us-foreign-policy-is-a-war-on-disobedience-ae4e7e75ce02">prevailing
orthodoxy</a> among western imperialists that US unipolar
hegemony must be preserved at all cost rushes headlong toward
America's <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-us-empire-is-acting-like-a-desperate-cornered-animal-because-thats-what-it-is-25308ee10221">plunge
into post-primacy</a>.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">The US has been ramping up
aggressions with Russia in a way that <a style="color:
#2585B2;" href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/09/19/stephen-cohen-has-died-remember-his-urgent-warnings-against-the-new-cold-war/">has
terrified experts</a>, and it <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/04/why-the-anti-russian-policies-are-likey-to-stay.html">looks
likely to continue</a> doing so. These aggressions are further
complicated on <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://news.antiwar.com/2021/04/07/us-delivers-military-cargo-to-ukraine-as-it-hypes-russian-military-movements/">increasingly
tense</a> fronts like Ukraine, which is <a style="color:
#2585B2;" href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-ponders-nuclear-arms-102813639.html">threatening
to obtain nuclear weapons</a> if it isn't granted membership
to NATO, <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://original.antiwar.com/daniel_larison/2021/04/13/keep-ukraine-out-of-nato/">either
of which</a> would increase the risk of conflict. <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/03/19/what-were-really-seeing-with-all-these-anti-china-narratives/">Aggressions</a>
against nuclear-armed China are escalating on <a style="color:
#2585B2;" href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aantiwar.com+china&t=hy&va=z&df=y&ia=web">what
seems like a daily basis</a> at this point, with potential
flashpoints in the China Seas, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong,
India, and any number of other possible fronts.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">STRATCOM commander Charles
Richard <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.stripes.com/news/us/stratcom-commander-calls-on-congress-to-update-us-triad-as-china-s-nuclear-program-advances-weekly-1.670518">told
the Senate Armed Services Committee</a> on Tuesday that
China's nuclear capabilities are advancing so rapidly that
they're not even bothering with intelligence vetted more than a
month ago in their briefings because it's probably already out
of date, urging an upgrade in America's nuclear infrastructure.
Richard <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://twitter.com/barbarastarrcnn/status/1384504363125813254?s=20">reportedly</a>
testified that a portion of China's nuclear arsenal has been
recently primed for ready use.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">The fact that those in
charge of US nuclear weapons now see both Russia and China as a
major nuclear threat, and the fact that US cold warriors are
escalating against both of them, is horrifying. This is to say
nothing of tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and
nuclear-armed India, between nuclear-armed Israel and its
neighbors, and between nuclear-armed North Korea and the western
empire.</p>
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color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;" dir="ltr" lang="en">While China keeps the majority of its forces in a
peacetime status, increasing evidence suggests China has
moved a portion of its nuclear force to a Launch on Warning
(LOW) posture and are adopting a limited “high alert duty”
strategy. <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://twitter.com/US_Stratcom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@US_Stratcom</a>
testimony at SASC right now.</p>
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color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">— Barbara
Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://twitter.com/barbarastarrcnn/status/1384504363125813254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April
20, 2021</a></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">The Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists has the <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/">2021
Doomsday Clock</a> at 100 seconds to midnight, citing the
rising threat of nuclear war:</p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">"Accelerating
nuclear programs in multiple countries moved the world into
less stable and manageable territory last year. Development of
hypersonic glide vehicles, ballistic missile defenses, and
weapons-delivery systems that can flexibly use conventional or
nuclear warheads may raise the probability of miscalculation
in times of tension. Events like the deadly assault earlier
this month on the US Capitol renewed legitimate concerns about
national leaders who have sole control of the use of nuclear
weapons. Nuclear nations, however, have ignored or undermined
practical and available diplomatic and security tools for
managing nuclear risks. By our estimation, the potential for
the world to stumble into nuclear war—an ever-present danger
over the last 75 years—increased in 2020. An extremely
dangerous global failure to address existential threats—what
we called 'the new abnormal' in 2019—tightened its grip in the
nuclear realm in the past year, increasing the likelihood of
catastrophe."</p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">In a <a style="color:
#2585B2;" href="https://phoenix.coop/2021/04/the-future-is-bleak-on-the-global-arms-race-according-to-nuclear-expert/">recent
interview</a> with <em>Phoenix Media Co-op</em>'s Slava
Zilber, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft nuclear
policy specialist Joe Cirincione described a ramp-up in weapons
technology among all nuclear-armed nations in the world, the
future of which he described as "bleak":</p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">"We right now
have <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://ploughshares.org/new-arms-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ploughshares.org/new-arms-race&source=gmail&ust=1618851064663000&usg=AFQjCNHswaV-TDJuKc1DVAwwumiwC_kgTg">a
global nuclear </a><a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-18/this-nuclear-arms-race-is-worse-than-the-last-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-18/this-nuclear-arms-race-is-worse-than-the-last-one&source=gmail&ust=1618851064663000&usg=AFQjCNHcknpSP_jtfn-qmAyHMBJ2D2G3ag">arms
race</a>. Each of the <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat">nine</a> nuclear-armed
nations are building new weapons. Some are replacing weapons
that are getting old. Others are expanding their arsenals. But
all of these new weapons represent new capabilities for these
countries. So you’re seeing a qualitative and a quantitative
arms race that is completely unchecked.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;"> </p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">"If you look
at <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/&source=gmail&ust=1618851064663000&usg=AFQjCNHD4jVUg8luNIFccsurZpEfSL8NLQ">the
data</a> that’s collected by the Federation of American
Scientists, for example, you see that – since the 1980s at the
height of the Cold War – we have slashed the global nuclear
arsenals. We went from a world in 1986 where there were almost
70,000 nuclear weapons in the world down to where we are now
where there’s just about 13,500 nuclear weapons. Tremendous
progress. 85% reduction in the stockpile…</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
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<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">"But it’s
flattened out. There really haven’t been significant
reductions for years. The 2010 <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.state.gov/new-start/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.state.gov/new-start/&source=gmail&ust=1618851064663000&usg=AFQjCNEo0tlZI4BMjz2rz3bBLynydd17Uw">New
START</a> agreement was the last successful arms control
agreement. That was 11 years ago. There’s been no reduction
agreement since then. There’ve been no talks about new
reductions agreements. Now I think the future of arms control
is bleak. It’s bleak. And I see no interest really in a new
round of arms control either from the United States or from
Russia. So I’m pessimistic about our prospects."</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">As I all too frequently
find myself having to remind people, the primary risk here is
not that anyone will <em>choose</em> to have a nuclear war, it’s
that a nuke will be deployed amid heightening tensions as a
result of miscommunication, miscalculation, misfire, or
malfunction, as <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls">nearly
happened many times</a> during the last cold war, thereby
setting off everyone's nukes as per Mutually Assured
Destruction.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">The more tense things get,
the likelier such an event becomes. This new cold war is
happening along <em>two</em> fronts, with a bunch of proxy
conflicts complicating things even further. There are so very
many small moving parts, and it’s impossible to remain in
control of all of them.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">People like to think every
nuclear-armed country has one “The Button” with which they can
consciously choose to start a nuclear war after careful
deliberation, but it doesn’t work that way. There are <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://fpif.org/thousands-people-launch-nuclear-war/"><em>thousands</em> of
people in the world</a> controlling different parts of
different nuclear arsenals who could independently initiate a
nuclear war. <strong>Thousands</strong> of “The Buttons”. It
only takes one. The arrogance of believing anyone can control
such a conflict safely, <em><strong>for years</strong></em>, is
astounding.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">A <a style="color:
#2585B2;" class="bh go is it iu iv" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EF000205/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">2014 report</a> published
in the journal <em class="ir">Earth’s Future</em> found that it
would only take the detonation of 100 nuclear warheads to throw
5 teragrams of black soot into the earth’s stratosphere for
decades, blocking out the sun and making the photosynthesis of
plants impossible. This could easily starve every terrestrial
organism to death that didn’t die of radiation or climate chaos
first. China has hundreds of nuclear weapons; Russia and the
United States <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons">have
thousands</a>.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">This should be the main
thing everyone talks about. There is literally no more urgent
matter on earth than the looming possibility that everyone might
die in a nuclear war.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">But people don't see it.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;"><a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywKH60NUGg"><img style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/iywKH60NUGg/0.jpg" border="0"></a></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">On a <a style="color:
#2585B2;" href="https://youtu.be/iywKH60NUGg">recent <em>Tucker
Carlson Tonight</em> appearance</a>, former congresswoman
Tulsi Gabbard did a solid job describing the horrors of nuclear
war and the very real possibility that it could be inflicted
upon us due to America's insane brinkmanship with Russia. She
spoke earnestly about how “such a war would come at a cost
beyond anything we can really imagine,” painting an entirely
accurate picture of "hundreds of millions of people dying and
suffering, seeing their flesh being burned from their bones."</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">Gabbard is correct, and was
right to give such a confrontational account of what we are
looking at right now. But if you <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1383022106779267076">read
the replies to Gabbard's tweet</a> in which she shared a clip
from the interview, you'll see a deluge of commenters accusing
her of "hyperbole", saying she's being soft on Putin, and
admonishing her for appearing on Tucker Carlson. It's like they
can't even hear what she's saying, how real it is, how
significant it is.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">People's failure to wrap
their minds around this issue is a testament to the power of <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://info.obsglobal.com/blog/the-normalcy-bias#:~:text=The%20assumption%20that%20is%20made,they%20have%20not%20experienced%20before.">normalcy
bias</a>, a cognitive glitch which causes us to assume that
because something bad hasn't happened in the past, it won't
happen in the future. We survived the last cold war <a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnPo_A9LJA">by the skin
of our teeth, entirely by sheer, dumb luck</a>; the only
reason people are around to bleat "hyperbole" is because we got
lucky. There's no reason to believe we'll get lucky in this new
cold war environment; only normalcy bias says we will. Believing
we'll survive this cold war just because we survived the last
one is as sane as believing Russian roulette is safe because the
guy passing you the gun didn't die.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">It's also a testament to
the power of plain old psychological compartmentalization.
People can't handle the idea of everything ending, of everyone
they know and love dying, of watching their loved ones die in
flames or from radiation poisoning right in front of them, all
because someone made a mistake at the wrong time after a bunch
of imperialists decided that US planetary domination was worth
rolling the dice on the life of every terrestrial organism for.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;"><a style="color: #2585B2;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnPo_A9LJA"><img style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/NwnPo_A9LJA/0.jpg" border="0"></a></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">But mostly it's a testament
to the ubiquitous malpractice of the western media. It's
inconvenient to the agendas of the imperial war machine to have
people protesting these insane cold war games of nuclear
brinkmanship, so their media stenographers barely touch on this
issue. If mainstream journalism actually existed, this
flirtation with nuclear war would be front and center in
everyone's awareness and people would be flooding the streets in
protest against their lives being toyed with as casino chips in
an insane all-or-nothing gamble.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">This is so much bigger than
any of the petty little things we spend our mental energy on
from day to day. It's bigger than whatever your number one pet
issue is. It's bigger than your disdain for Moscow or Beijing.
It's bigger than my disdain for the US empire. It's bigger than
our political opinions. It's bigger than whatever argument we
might be having on the internet. It's bigger than whether or not
we've got a problem with Tulsi Gabbard appearing on Tucker
Carlson.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">Because once the nukes
start flying, none of that will matter. None of it. All that
will matter is the fact that this is all ending. If you open the
door and see a mushroom cloud growing on the horizon, all of
your mental priorities will rearrange themselves real quick.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">We should not be in this
situation. There is no good reason governments should be playing
these games with these weapons. There is no good reason we can't
just get along with each other and collaborate toward a healthy
world together. Only the psychopathic agendas of power-hungry
imperialists perpetuate this insane balancing act, and it
benefits none of us ordinary people in any way.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;
color: #444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 1em;">The rising threat of
nuclear war is the most urgent matter in the world, and it's
absolute madness that we're not talking about it all the time.</p>
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