{"id":30286,"date":"2018-01-29T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30286"},"modified":"2018-01-29T07:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:23:24","slug":"the-doomsday-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30286","title":{"rendered":"The Doomsday Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><\/header>\n<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"The Doomsday Weapon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/01\/28\/or-40251.jpg\" alt=\"The Doomsday Weapon\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/01\/28\/the-doomsday-weapon.html\">The Doomsday Weapon<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>While we agonize over such life and death questions as clumsy men groping women and the crucial need for gender and racial \u2018inclusion,\u2019 let me spare a few seconds thought to something really important and scary:\u00a0 Russia\u2019s doomsday nuclear torpedo.<\/p>\n<p>Code-named\u00a0by NATO \u2018Kanyon,\u2019\u00a0 it\u2019s reportedly something new and terrifying, a \u2018third strike\u2019 weapon designed to obliterate the US east and west coasts in a nuclear war.\u00a0\u00a0 US intelligence seems to think this doomsday weapon is very real indeed.<\/p>\n<p>I just re-watched for the umpteenth time the wonderful, 1964 Kubrick film, \u2018Dr. Strangelove\u2019 and marveled anew at how prescient this razor-sharp satire was.\u00a0 In the film, the Soviets admit they ran out of money to keep up the nuclear arms race with the United States.\u00a0 Their answer was to create a secret, automated doomsday nuclear device that would destroy the entire planet in the event of a major war.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Russians appear to have responded to a new, trillion dollar US program to develop and deploy an anti-missile system that would negate their ballistic missile system:\u00a0 the \u2018Kanyon.\u2019\u00a0 Fact imitates fiction.<\/p>\n<p>This revelation comes just after the Trump administration\u00a0has also embarked on new programs to deploy an entire new generation of lower yield\u00a0nuclear weapons that can be used for tactical war-fighting purposes.\u00a0 North Korea and Iran are the evident targets, as well as Afghanistan.\u00a0 But there is now talk aplenty in Pentagon circles about waging a limited tactical nuclear war against Russia.\u00a0 New US bomber and drone programs are being speeded up.\u00a0 War talk is in the air.\u00a0 Military stocks are booming.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kanyon,\u2019 according to the right-wing Heritage Foundation, a cheerleader for military spending, is a mammoth 100-megaton nuclear device carried by an unmanned submarine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doomsday Weapon While we agonize over such life and death questions as clumsy men groping women and the crucial need for gender and racial \u2018inclusion,\u2019 let me spare a few seconds thought to something really important and scary:\u00a0 Russia\u2019s doomsday nuclear torpedo. Code-named\u00a0by NATO \u2018Kanyon,\u2019\u00a0 it\u2019s reportedly something new and terrifying, a \u2018third strike\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,18193,14845,581,694,8203,827,862],"class_list":["post-30286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-doomsday-weapon","tag-eric-s-margolis","tag-nuclear-war","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30286","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=30286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30287,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30286\/revisions\/30287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}