{"id":27310,"date":"2017-10-27T06:24:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27310"},"modified":"2017-10-27T06:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:24:16","slug":"self-assured-destruction-sad-21-incidents-show-how-donald-trumps-24-hour-nuclear-alert-could-literally-backfire4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27310","title":{"rendered":"Self-Assured Destruction (SAD): 21 Incidents Show How Donald Trump\u2019s 24-Hour Nuclear Alert Could Literally\u00a0Backfire4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Self-Assured Destruction (SAD): 21 Incidents Show How Donald Trump\u2019s 24-Hour Nuclear Alert Could Literally\u00a0Backfire<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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On Sunday, an exclusive<\/a>\u00a0from Defense One<\/i> suggested that Donald Trump\u2019s administration \u201cis preparing to put nuclear armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert\u201d for the first time in more than a quarter century. The report specifically cites Trump\u2019s \u201cconfrontational approach\u201d to North Korea as well as \u201cRussia\u2019s increasingly potent and active armed forces,\u201d a rationale that must well-please centrist Democrats braying for battle with Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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On hair trigger status, however, the biggest threat may come from the United States\u2019 sordid record of nuclear weapons safety. Self Assured Destruction (SAD) may be a more realistic scenario for nuclear disaster than Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) with Russia or a showdown with North Korea or Iran. At least twenty-one known accidental incidents involving nuclear weapons and the United States military could have been utterly catastrophic and are worth describing in brief. Evidence suggests that the U.S. government may have successfully kept others from public scrutiny.<\/p>\n

After much pressure, the United States military eventually copped\u00a0[pdf<\/a>] to 32 \u201cbroken arrow\u201d incidents prior<\/i>to the Reagan administration. \u201cBroken Arrow\u201d events are extremely serious nuclear weapons risk situations that do not create the risk of all out war, a more serious situation designated by the term Nucflash. While official government statements about broken arrows consistently attempt to paint a picture of little to no public danger, an astonishing run of luck has meant the deaths, all told in these events, of hundreds or<\/i>thousands of people rather than hundreds of<\/i> thousands or millions. Less guarded statements from generals, other military or government officials, as well as once secret documents or expert testimony describe situations where<\/p>\n

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Self-Assured Destruction (SAD): 21 Incidents Show How Donald Trump\u2019s 24-Hour Nuclear Alert Could Literally\u00a0Backfire\u00a0 Photo by Guido van Nispen | CC BY 2.0 On Sunday, an exclusive\u00a0from Defense One suggested that Donald Trump\u2019s administration \u201cis preparing to put nuclear armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert\u201d for the first time in more than a quarter […]<\/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":[16715,7844,16712,2006,16714,694,16713,827,862],"class_list":["post-27310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-defense-one","tag-donald-trump","tag-doug-johnson-hatlem","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-alert","tag-russia","tag-self-assured-destruction","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27310","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=27310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27311,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27310\/revisions\/27311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}