As many are aware, the United States (Trump administration) are in the process of breaking away from the INF Nuclear Treaty. It's a very important Document that safe-guards a Nuclear confrontation between the Superpowers. Think of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings on steroids - to the MAX! Russia is doing everything in their Diplomatic tool box to salvage the INF accord.
Although the Pentagon, NATO and much of the Trump administration are behind the fall out, I suspect the main ring leader is Israel?
Skimming through the news sites this morning, noticed a report from
Sergey Lavrov on the
new US production of small-capacity nuclear weapons, the W76-2. This is the first - I have come across this info, so don't know all the specs on it yet or how it's delivered (Missile, bomb or torpedo)? But then, something else came into my mind and I find the "timing" interesting. I'm referring to reports that Israel may have used
kamikaze-drones in a recent attack on Syria. After you read the description (below) of what a kamikaze drone can do
and that it can loiter over the battlefield for six hours, you might understand my concern? According to US experts, the new warhead has a yield of 5-6 kilotonnes, in contrast to the 100-kilotonne warhead W76-1, created back in the 1970s.
Then picture - instead of detonating a seventy-pound explosive on impact - it's a small nuclear warhead, the W76-2? And who has undocumented supplies of Nuclear Warheads and refuses to sign any Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? "Israel!"
Isn't it also, or maybe just coincidental that the first Senate bill of 2019 would finalize a $38 billion aid package to Israel, that would give Israel $33 billion over the next ten years in addition to the $5.5 billion enacted in last year’s defense spending bill. This is reportedly the largest military aid package in U.S. history. (OH, BTW - what was the Title of that Bill - floating around the Senate floor - about allocating money for the Security Border Wall .... that caused a semi-Government-shut down .. and all that hoopla?
Doesn't America come FIRST ... or ... that only works when we're in "other" countries??? (Slam-dunk!
)
Jan. 16, 2019 - Russia to continue efforts to salvage INF accord, vows Lavrov
Russia to continue efforts to salvage INF accord, vows Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the US of bringing a nuclear conflict closer after the Donald Trump administration ordered the production of a new nuclear warhead, the W76-2.
Wed Jan 30, 2019 - Russian FM: US Production of New Nuke Warhead Increases Risk of Nuclear War
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Production of W76-2 warhead in US increases risk of nuclear conflict, warns Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov © Sergei Bobylev/TASS
The country’s top diplomat reminded journalists that Moscow voiced its concern last year that the production of small-capacity nuclear weapons “lowers the threshold of nuclear weapons use and, of course, boosts the risk of a nuclear conflict”,
RT reported.
“Apparently, these plans were put into practice,” Lavrov said, adding, “Certainly, it won’t contribute to global security.”
Russia will now await Europe’s reaction to the US move to begin production of the new weapon.
The warhead, known as the W76-2, is being produced at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Pantex Plant in the Texas Panhandle, according to the National Nuclear Security Agency. The US Navy is expected to receive the first batch of new warheads in September.
2019-01-26 - Israel uses kamikaze-drone to counter Syria’s new air defenses: report
https://www.almasdarnews.com/articl...ne-to-counter-syrias-new-air-defenses-report/
According to the author Sebastien Roblin, the new Israeli Air Force attack on the Damascus countryside, last Sunday revealed Syria’s improved air defense systems as they were able to intercept some of the enemy missiles.
However, despite the improvements on the Syrian side, it appears Israel has found a way to counter these Russian weapons in the form of kamikaze-drones.
“In fact, the recent raids may reveal improvements to Syria’s air defense forces due to ongoing Russian training and weapons transfers. However, they also reveal Israel’s continuing ability to defeat, including through likely use of kamikaze-drones.”
Citing a military commentator, Roblin suggests that Israel likely used kamikaze-drones to overwhelm the Syrian military’s Pantsir systems.
According to Alftayeh, the anti-SAM weapon was likely an Israeli-built Harop (Harpy 2) kamikaze drone, which can either be remotely piloted, or set to automatically home in on radar emissions, detonating a seventy-pound explosive on impact. The Harop has a maximum speed of 115 miles per hour, and can loiter over the battlefield for six hours.
The first Senate bill of 2019 would finalize a $38 billion aid package to Israel, combat BDS, and rebut Trump’s attempt to withdraw troops from Syria….
January 29, 2019 - First Senate Bill of 2019 Would Give Israel Billions of Dollars, Combat BDS
First Senate Bill of 2019 Would Give Israel Billions of Dollars, Combat BDS - Global Research
According to
Marco Rubio, the first
bill the 2019 U.S. Senate will take up is one that is focused on Israel. His
twitter announcement shows a number of people suggesting that he should instead focus on getting the U.S. government running.
The
four-part bill, designated
S.1, is composed of measures on behalf of Israel that Congress tried and failed to pass in 2018. Some were pioneered by AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The first component is the “Ileana Ros-Lehtinen United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2019” – the 2018 text can be seen
here. This would give Israel $33 billion over the next ten years in addition to the $5.5 billion
enacted in last year’s defense spending bill. This is reportedly the largest military aid package in U.S. history.
The bill was held up by Senator Rand Paul, who threatened a filibuster against it. Most Americans feel the U.S. already gives Israel too much money.
Unlike the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that the Obama administration negotiated with Israel in 2016, this would make the $38 billion a floor rather than a ceiling and cements it into law (an MOU is non-binding). It also provides Israel additional perks, including calling for
NASA to work with Israel’s space agency, despite Israel’s alleged acquisition of
classified U.S. research.
73rd Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
Hiroshima commemorates the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bomb (9 Photos)
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Mayor of Hiroshima Kazumi Matsui and Mayor of Nagasaki Tomihisa Taue have called on Moscow and Washington to prevent the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
Wed. Jan. 30, 2019 - Mayors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki urge Russia and US to prevent INF Treaty collapse
Mayors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki urge Russia and US to prevent INF Treaty collapse
We are deeply concerned the demise of the treaty without alternative measures will increase the risk of the use of nuclear weapons," they stressed in their joint letter to the Russian and US leaders.
The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki also called for developing specific proposals to achieve nuclear disarmament.
They also hoped that the United States and Russia would play a leading role in efforts aimed at preventing a repeat of the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The INF Treaty was signed on December 8, 1987, and took effect on June 1, 1988. It outlawed deployed and non-deployed intermediate range (1,000-5,000 kilometers) and shorter range (500-1,000 kilometers) ground-based missiles.
In recent years, Washington has repeatedly alleged Russia was in breach of the agreement. Moscow emphatically dismissed these accusations and countered them with its own claims over the United States’ non-compliance. Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier said Moscow was opposed to scrapping the INF Treaty but would have to respond accordingly, if Washington withdrew from it.
* Nagasaki mayor urges Obama to visit Japanese cities subject to US atomic bombings in 1945
"I am calling on U.S. President and the leaders of other countries to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki to see personally what happened there 70 years ago," Taue said on Sunday as he read out the Declaration of Peace at a remembrance ceremony for the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. "It is necessary to exert every effort to free the world from nuclear weapons," the mayor of Nagasaki said addressing the world leaders. "We have the strength to safeguard peace without nuclear weapons and war," he added.
* US tries to hush up tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — senior Russian lawmaker
The United States is trying to hush up the tragedies of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which is impossible, Russian State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin said on Thursday. "I have no doubt that the barbarity and over proportion of what was done is obvious to the US authorities. But instead of right comprehension of history, they want to bury it in oblivion," Naryshkin told a round table meeting on Thursday.
* Russia to publish report from Soviet embassy in Tokyo received after 1945 A-bombings
Russia to publish report from Soviet embassy in Tokyo received after 1945 A-bombings
Russian State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin has issued instructions to publish on the web-site of the Russian Historical Society the unique report Moscow received from the Soviet embassy in Tokyo immediately after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. "Public interest in this theme is very great. I would suggest making this document available on the website of the Russian Historical Society in the near future, possibly, today," Naryshkin said at a round-table discussion at the Moscow state institute of international relations MGIMO, timed for the 70th anniversary of the 1945 tragedies.
"Neither the whole document nor any part of it has ever been published. In our opinion it deserves to be released on the eve of the date," the diplomat said while handing over a copy of the document to Naryshkin, the head of the Russian Historical Society. The Russian diplomat described
the report’s contents as the "first eye-witness account of the horrors of bombardments and of what was rightly termed as a crime against humanity. The document points out the effects of the bombings would be felt 70 years after," Ilyshev-Vvedensky said. "The present day merely confirms the conclusions made in that report," he concluded.
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Now the controversial part - "Fact or Friction"?
UFO disarmed nuclear missiles
Sep 09, 2010 · Larry King interview's a nuke missile operator who experienced shutting down of 20 nuke minuteman missiles in 1967. The
weapons were disabled by the Galactic Federation.
Published on Sep 9, 2010 (1:37 min.)
DISCLOSURE: UFOs Shut Down Nuclear Missiles, Disclosure Project
Published on Jun 1, 2017 (18:07)
Disclosure Project - Capt. Robert Salas speaks & presents
March 1967 Robert Sallas was stationed at Malmstrom AFB in Montana as a missile launch officer for the minuteman 1 ICBM. Sallas and his commanding officer Frederick Mywald at the Oscar Launch Control Center had operational control over 10 minuteman nuclear missiles.
Each of the 10 missiles operated independently and had its own power and backup power. The command and control of these missiles was entirely located within the command capsule and there was no means outside of the capsule to affect the missiles.
On March 24th 1967 Sallas received a phone call from a security officer about unidentified lighted objects flying above the facility making very strange maneuvers. Salas took little interest in the first phone call. Later, the security officer called in to the capsule a second time to report that a 30-40ft diameter large oval pulsating red object was hovering above the front gate of the facility.
Salas began to inform his commander but was interrupted by the missiles shutting down. Alert status on the missiles was lost for all ten missiles while the object was above the facility. The error reporting software indicated there was a guidance and control problem. There were also indicator lights on for security violations at two of the launch facilities where the missiles were physically located
The security alert team was sent to those launch facilities to investigate. The team reported that the object was hovering above the two affected sites. When they approached the object the team's communication gear malfunctioned and they lost radio contact.
After speaking to the wing command post Lt. Mywald informed Salas that a similar incident had occurred a week earlier at Echo flight.
The first audio from Colonel Walter Figel who was the deputy missile crew commander at Echo Flight describes an incident in which a UFO is hovering above the facility before the nuclear missiles were disabled.
In the second audio Mywald and Salas are talking about the security team that went to investigate the silos that had a security breach indicator. The two men returned terrified by their encounter and had to be relieved of duty never to return to guard assignments.
A more detailed investigation of these two incidents revealed that the missiles all had logic coupler failures which triggered the guidance and control error indication. Robert Kaminsky who led the investigation at Echo flight stated that the event was virtually impossible.
