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Nuclear War

Congress, the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, deserve the gratitude of all
Americans for their bipartisan rebuke of the Biden Administration for trying to cancel the Sea- Launched-Cruise-Missile-Nuclear (SLCM-N)—needed to prevent, or prosecute, tactical nuclear war. 1 Congress has restored funding for SLCM-N. But President Biden’s still classified Nuclear Posture Review reportedly calls for cancelling the missile, so the Biden Administration may yet try again to kill SLCM-N in the future.

Thinking About the “Unthinkable” We are told: “Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought” which politically correct mantra is really believed by most in Washington, perhaps by most in America, even though it is patently false, evidences mass psychological “denial behavior” and is perilous to national security. 1 Americans hate nuclear weapons, and those who think about them. 2 This I know from a professional lifetime as one who thinks about nuclear weapons, strategy, and warfare. Philosophically, weapons of mass destruction are antithetical to the ethos of democratic societies deriving their legitimacy from the people, where government exists to serve the people, where the most precious jewel is the lives of the people. Nuclear weapons, that threaten mass destruction of the people, are so noxious in our society that almost no one wants to think about them—and very few do. In contrast, totalitarian and authoritarian states are proud of their nuclear firepower and celebrate nuclear weapons. Russia, China, and North Korea parade nuclear missiles in their streets. They broadcast TV documentaries about winning nuclear wars, almost always against the United
States. 3

“America…goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the
freedom and independence of all.”—John Quincy Adams (July 4 th , 1821) Russian Nuclear “Saber Rattling”? Washington and the world are holding their breath waiting to see if Russian dictator Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons to win his losing war in Ukraine.
Putin has threatened “lightning fast” nuclear strikes against NATO for supporting Ukraine: “If someone intends to interfere in what is going on from the outside they must know that constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia. They must know that our response to counterstrikes will be lightning fast. Fast.” 1

INTRO: Is the world inching closer to a nuclear war? Another warning to report tonight and this time it’s from the highest levels. We have another example of a store owner defending his business, and his life, against an armed robber. In this case, the store owner met the criminal’s firepower with more firepower of his own, and it’s all captured on video. Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the highest level U.S. official visit to the island since the late 1990s, is provoking strong reactions from China and Russia. We’ll provide an update.

President Biden’s first State of the Union address neglected to mention the little fact that his Ukraine policy has brought the world to the brink of a thermonuclear holocaust. On Sunday (February 27, 2022), Russian dictator Vladimir Putin ordered his nuclear forces on “high alert” or “special alert” or “highest alert” as variously reported by Russian and Western sources. 

Twenty years ago, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that killed some 3,000 Americans, was a psychological shock comparable to Imperial Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that bludgeoned the United States into World War II.

Losing a nuclear war is surely not intended by the Biden administration and congressional allies, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., Chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee. But their call for unilaterally abolishing U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) would surely lose a nuclear World War III.