The laughable "peace conference" in Poland had Israeli PM Netanyahu saying he wants a war with Iran. He said 'milchama', which is war, but later backpedaled on what he said. I guess being too outspoken about your goals isn't showing your hand too early in this case.
Israel wants to continue to bomb Syria and Iranian targets in Syria, without them doing anything about it. If either nation retaliates against Israeli aggression, well Israel can use their secret nuclear arsenal. They've been immune to non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament treaties, denying they even have any. But it's an open secret.
"I'm allowed to have nukes, but not you. You have to get inspected and sanctioned for having or developing nukes, but not me, I'm special and above the rules being applied to everyone else."
Not that it matters much anymore, as the U.S. is getting ready to exit treaties with Russia, gearing up for another arms race. The next frontier will unite big tech with weapons development through an AI arms race.
Trump recently signed an executive order on Monday to advance AI research:
"The initiative focuses Federal Government resources toward developing AI technology and ensuring that the next great AI inventions are made in the United States."
On Feb 12, the Pentagon made public their master plan for "speeding the injection of artificial intelligence (AI) into military equipment", and "is expected to impact every corner of the Department, spanning operations, training, sustainment, force protection, recruiting, healthcare, and many others."
With Russia and especailly China moving ahead fast on AI, the Pentagon worries the safety of America would drop, as it would "result in legacy systems irrelevant to the defense of our people, eroding cohesion among allies and partners, reduced access to markets that will contribute to a decline in our prosperity and standard of living, and growing challenges to societies that have been built upon individual freedoms."
With respect to nuclear weapons, things have changed. In a report from Veterans Today by particle physicist and former IAEA inspector, Jeff Smith with Ian Greenhalgh, they talk abotu the new generation of micro nukes that many don't know about:
“In the minds of most people, a nuclear weapon is a large device carried on the tip of an ICBM or carried in the belly of a huge bomber aircraft that when deployed produces a colossal explosion and spectacular mushroom cloud just like all those terrifying 1950s newsreels.
However, this is no longer the case – nuclear weapon design is several generations in advance of the bulky devices of the Cold War and today, a wide variety of types of nuclear weapon exist and they come in all sizes from the smallest ‘micro nukes’ with yields measuring in hundreds of tonnes of TNT equivalent up to truly monstrous two and three stage bombs with yields of many millions of tonnes of TNT (megatonnes).
The megatonne class bombs have never been deployed in anger; if they had, there would be no possible way to keep it a secret – the devastation and fallout would be on such a grand scale as to be impossible to hide. However, the sub-kilotonne mini and micro nukes have been used many times, both in false flag ‘terrorist’ attacks like 9-11 and OK City and in military conflicts in countries such as Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
The small yield and limited destruction of these mini and micro nukes means it is possible to keep their use secret; especially when the media are compliant and willfully ignore any and all instances of their use. The willingness of several players to use these diabolical weapons should send a chill down the spine of every sensible person – we are living in a new nuclear age far more dangerous and deadly than the previous Cold War era with its balance of nuclear power held in check by the terrifying concept of Mutually Assured Destruction.
Now that advanced nuclear weapons have become part of the playbook of modern conflict it becomes important to understand something about these weapons; to learn about their characteristics and effects so that it becomes ever harder to keep their use secret.”
In the newest 5th generation devices the uranium or plutonium fissile content has been drastically reduced by as much as 90% only leaving enough fissile material needed to ignite and trigger the internal fission-fusion-fission reaction of the deuterium boost gas. In this process, almost all of the fissile material is totally consumed, producing almost no detectable traces of fallout, as compared to the older designs from the WW2 era.
These newer 5th generation weapon designs are the anarchist “21st century” favorite toys of mass destruction. By covertly hiding their existence away from the general public and secretly using them in stealthy nuclear-based guerrilla warfare attacks on undesirable persons, governments or countries — such as the Saudi’s use of a small tactical nuke on Yemen — with these new weapons of “very small” mass destruction, no non-nuclear possessing government can properly defend itself from this form of covert state-sponsored nuclear warfare
Nukes are likely being used, as mentioned above, and we don't even have a clue. The war game has changed, and we're clueless about what's really going on. Welcome to the 21st century, and we've only just begun.
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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