"Donald Trump has laid down a Ukraine-like ultimatum to Iran: either agree to give up your nuclear program within two months or suffer the consequences. He’s been vague about what these consequences might include, but I can now report specifics that are as severe as you can imagine.

“We can't let them have a nuclear weapon,” Trump says. “I would rather have a peace deal than the other option but the other option will solve the problem.”

To the casual observer that might sound like more of the targeted airstrikes the U.S. has been doing, but behind the scenes, as the Pentagon prepares for a "major" regional war with Iran, the use of nuclear weapons is on the table.

The new Iran war preparations that have been underway since last year include new nuclear options.

“One might find it extraordinary to think that nuclear weapons are even considered,” a retired senior military officer who has been briefed on the planning tells us, “but we have entered a new era.”

The officer says that a combination of factors — none of them precipitated by Donald Trump directly — have created a perfect storm to bring nuclear weapons back into the picture."

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-nuclear-war-plan-for-iran

#USA #Trump #Iran #War #NuclearWar #NuclearWeapons

"Donald Trump has announced his intention to build a gigantic anti-ballistic missile system to counter Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons, and he is recruiting Elon Musk to help him. The Pentagon has long dreamed of constructing an American “Iron Dome.” The technology is couched in the defense language – i.e., to make America safe again. But like its Israeli counterpart, it would function as an offensive weapon, giving the United States the ability to launch nuclear attacks anywhere in the world without having to worry about the consequences of a similar response. This power could upend the fragile peace maintained by decades of mutually assured destruction, a doctrine that has underpinned global stability since the 1940s."

https://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-recruiting-elon-musk-nuclear-war/289055/

#USA #Trump #Musk #Pentagon #NuclearWar

https://www.europesays.com/1764732/ Iran ready for nuke war against USA? Tehran expands drills to new nuclear sites: ‘We’re ready…’ – The Economic Times Video #AirDefenseDrills #Conflicts #Iran #IRGC #Israel #IsraelAirstrikes #Khamenei #NatanzNuclearSite #NuclearWar #trump

https://www.europesays.com/1656970/ Inside America’s Nuke-Proof Bunkers As Russian Threats Drive Demand #China #Coronavirus #Iran #Israel #nuclear #NuclearWar #nukes #Pandemics #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #Taiwan #terrorism #Ukraine #VladimirPutin #war

"Biden spent his entire career promoting war and militarism at every opportunity, and then spent the twilight years of his time in Washington choosing to continue supplying an active genocide that is fully dependent on US-supplied arms.

He refused off-ramp after off-ramp to the horrific war in Ukraine that has burned through a generation of men in that country, which he knowingly provoked by amassing a military proxy threat on Russia’s border in ways the US would never tolerate being amassed on its own border. In the early weeks of the conflict Biden and his fellow empire managers sabotaged peace talks to keep the war going for as long as possible with the goal of bleeding Moscow, and at one point his own intelligence agencies reportedly assessed that the probability of a nuclear war erupting on this front was as high as 50–50.

Coin toss odds on nuclear war. To call this a crime against humanity would be a massive understatement.

Biden has been facilitating Israeli atrocities in the middle east with US military expansionism in the region and bombing operations in Yemen, Iraq and Syria. He will spend his lame duck months backing Israel’s scorched earth demolition of southern Lebanon."

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/bidens-legacy-is-genocide-war-and

#USA #Biden #War #Warmongerism #Ukraine #NuclearWar #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Apropos to the times... National Security Archive @ GWU: "Investigating the Climate Impacts of #NuclearWar"

1983 Lawrence Livermore: Nuclear Exchange Could “Dramatically Affect the Atmosphere’s Temperature”

Defense Nuclear Agency: Nuclear War Producing “Atmospheric Trauma”

1988 Interagency Study: “Severe Disruption of [Food] Production, Processing, and Distribution”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project-nuclear-vault/2024-10-30/investigating-climate

Ps The early 60s Amchitka Island atomic test blew a hole in the ionosphere that altered the weather