{"id":61209,"date":"2022-01-01T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61209"},"modified":"2022-01-01T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T13:50:10","slug":"missiles-on-the-doorstep-and-impending-nuclear-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61209","title":{"rendered":"Missiles on the Doorstep and Impending Nuclear Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Missiles on the Doorstep and Impending Nuclear Winter<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nobody in their right mind would advocate what is called \u2018first use\u2019 of nuclear weapons.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Nuclear winter\u2019 is\u00a0defined<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Britannica\u00a0<\/em>as \u201cthe environmental devastation that certain scientists contend would probably result from the hundreds of nuclear explosions in a nuclear war.\u201d One immediately direct effect of such a conflict would be to block out the sun\u2019s rays, which would lead to \u201ca massive death toll from starvation, exposure, and disease. A nuclear war could thus reduce the Earth\u2019s human population to a fraction of its previous numbers.\u201d There have been innumerable portrayals of what would happen in a nuclear-devastated world of which the most evocative are the film\u00a0Threads<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, made in 1984, depicting the ghastly aftermath in the United Kingdom, and the U.S. ABC television movie\u00a0The Day After<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, of the previous year, which was even more horrifying, even though there was a lot of censorship before it was permitted to be shown.<\/p>\n

It is only too apparent that a nuclear war would be catastrophic \u2014 and also that a nuclear exchange would be encouraged, indeed initiated, by the country that first fired or otherwise despatched one of these systems. No nuclear-armed country could accept nuclear devastation in its own lands without retaliating in force. The conclusion is that nobody in their right mind would advocate what is called \u2018first use\u2019 of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

So step forward U.S. legislator, Senator Roger Wicker, who was\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0as declaring that if there were conflict between Russia and Ukraine then the U.S. would have to be involved to the extent that this \u201ccould mean American troops on the ground.\u201d And taking a massive leap backwards for mankind the senator\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0on Fox News on December 8 that in the event of engagement against Russia \u201cwe don\u2019t rule out first use nuclear action.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Missiles on the Doorstep and Impending Nuclear Winter Nobody in their right mind would advocate what is called \u2018first use\u2019 of nuclear weapons. \u2018Nuclear winter\u2019 is\u00a0defined\u00a0in\u00a0Britannica\u00a0as \u201cthe environmental devastation that certain scientists contend would probably result from the hundreds of nuclear explosions in a nuclear war.\u201d One immediately direct effect of such a conflict would […]<\/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":[5,6,7],"tags":[12435,512,32367,581,2583,6082,694,8203,827],"class_list":["post-61209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-brian-cloughley","tag-media","tag-nuclear-first-strike","tag-nuclear-war","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-nuclear-winter","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61209","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=61209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61210,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61209\/revisions\/61210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}