{"id":27127,"date":"2017-10-22T19:16:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27127"},"modified":"2017-10-22T19:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:16:06","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-26-years-us-to-put-nuclear-bombers-on-24-hour-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27127","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time In 26 Years, US To Put Nuclear Bombers On 24 Hour Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

For The First Time In 26 Years, US To Put Nuclear Bombers On 24 Hour Alert<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The unexpected decision by President Trump to amend an emergency Sept 11 order signed <\/a>by George W Bush, allowing the Air Force to recall up to 1,000 retired air force pilots to address what the Pentagon has decribed as “an acute shortage of pilots” caught us by surprise. After all, this was the first time we have heard of this particular labor shortage – perhaps there was more to this executive order than meets the eye. Indeed, a just released report may help explain the reasoning behind this presidential decision.<\/p>\n

According to Defense One, <\/a>the US Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991. <\/strong><\/p>\n

That means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends of Barksdale Air Force Base’s 11,000-foot runway \u2014 dubbed the \u201cChristmas tree\u201d for their angular markings \u2014 could once again find several B-52s parked on them, laden with nuclear weapons and set to take off at a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis is yet one more step in ensuring that we\u2019re prepared,\u201d <\/strong>Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, told the publication in an interview during his six-day tour of Barksdale and other U.S. Air Force bases that support the nuclear mission. \u201cI look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for the reality of the global situation we find ourselves in and how we ensure we\u2019re prepared going forward.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quoted by Defense One, Goldfein and other senior defense officials stressed that the alert order had not been given, but that preparations were under way in anticipation that it might come. That decision would be made by Gen. John Hyten, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, or Gen. Lori Robinson, the head of U.S. Northern Command. STRATCOM is in charge of the military\u2019s nuclear forces and NORTHCOM is in charge of defending North America.<\/p>\n

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For The First Time In 26 Years, US To Put Nuclear Bombers On 24 Hour Alert The unexpected decision by President Trump to amend an emergency Sept 11 order signed by George W Bush, allowing the Air Force to recall up to 1,000 retired air force pilots to address what the Pentagon has decribed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7844,16630,827,4318],"class_list":["post-27127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-nuclear-bombers","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27128,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27127\/revisions\/27128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}