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tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
Sep 22, 2017 - 03:23pm PT
Here's what the global nuke stockpile looks like by country based on information available to the public...
Global Total = 14,900
Russia = 7,000
US = 6,800
France = 300
China = 260
UK = 215
Pakistan = 130
India = 120
Israel = 80
N Korea < 15

https://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report

zBrown

Ice climber
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2017 - 08:07am PT
A move by President Donald Trump to discard the Obama-era nuclear deal with Tehran could bring a swift retaliation from an increasingly aggressive Iranian hacker army.

Some of those attacks may target America’s power plants, hospitals, airports and other pieces of critical infrastructure, multiple cyber experts that track Tehran’s hackers are warning. Iran’s current Western hacking is limited almost entirely to commercial espionage and dissident surveillance, but the country could quickly redirect its efforts in the event of a rupture of the nuclear pact.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 24, 2017 - 08:12am PT
Americas' power plants are at far greater risk from a solar geo magnetic storm than Iranian hackers. The Pentagon and Homeland Security are already gaming the civil unrest that could ensue. This ain't tinfoil hat stuff, you can read about it on The Economist's website. You sure as hell won't on our crankloon mainstream media - they're too obsessed with Trump and the football players.
zBrown

Ice climber
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2017 - 11:09am PT
Not Reilly {sic}!

One is beyond the control of folks like Trump, the other isn't. Except to deny budgeting for the people who look into this sort of fake news.

"The short answer to this is absolutely. The possibility of an extreme CME causing a very powerful geomagnetic storm is real. There's considerable uncertainty to how frequent such storms are at the level where we worry about huge impacts on the power grid and the resulting impacts that a lack of electricity would have. Is it a one in 50, one in 100, or one in 1,000 year event? We just don't know," Doug Biesecker of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center, told Astrowatch.net.
...
However, as Biesecker said, these are still in the speculative regime of science, with many of the efforts as yet unfunded, and much more that needs to be done, including finding techniques to quantify the magnetic field, before we can hope to use any of it for forecasting the influence on Earth.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-03-powerful-geomagnetic-storms-solar.html#jCp



TomCochrane

Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
Sep 24, 2017 - 10:16pm PT
North Korea didn't get so far this fast without some serious help. China is constrained by treaties from testing nukes. NK is not a signatory to those treaties,thus a convenient domain for testing Chinese nukes.

Constructing reliable rocket engines is very challenging. That's why many major US rockets use the Russian RD-250 engines designed and manufactured in Ukraine. Ukraine is under US control.

NK is also using those Ukrainian engines. This wouldn't be possible without US approval.

Trump needs NK's paper tiger threat as obfuscation that the US is bankrupt and in default on this year's national debt payments.

The public is oblivious.
TomCochrane

Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
Oct 1, 2017 - 09:32pm PT
15,000 nukes on this planet??!!

I worked in Washington D.C. with Commander C.B. Scott Jones PhD while he was Special Assistant to US Senator Claiborne Pell. His current work is very relevant to this discussion:

http://www.peaceroom.com/index.html
WBraun

climber
Oct 1, 2017 - 10:21pm PT
Only st00pid monkeys develop these cave man weapons like Nukes.

Human beings do not develop this kind of nonsense for humanity.

Most of these st00pid modern leaders are nothing but puffed up monkeys masquerading as human beings.

Stoopid modern people believe all that horsesh!t coming out of these st00pid monkeys .....
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