Setting its Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists report: ^^ Emphasis on "by design". The Bulletin faults the United States for leaving the INF treaty, threatening New Start, and adopting "a bullying and derisive tone toward its Chinese and Russian competitors." https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ US forces are in the Asia-Pacific "to compete with the Chinese." Flights there by nuclear-capable B-52's are "a warning to China of engagement to come." Esper’s dark vision for US-China conflict makes war more likely https://www.defensenews.com/opinion...-for-us-china-conflict-makes-war-more-likely/ In February 2020, the Pentagon simulated a "limited" nuclear exchange between the U.S. and Russia. The commander of U.S. European Command, General Tod Wolters, says that he favors a "flexible first-use policy."
Trump announced plans to kill the Open Skies treaty, which allows all sides to conduct surveillance flights to detect activities involving nuclear weapons.
The Bulletin are almost always alarmists when it comes to predicting the end of the world. They also have an overwhelming tendency to blame the United States first for any tensions around the world.
There was a battle this weekend between Indian and Chinese troops... They fought with bamboo sticks and rock and managed to kill 22 soldiers combined. I don't think China is that much of a threat for anyone...
Another alarmist. Not that much has changed in the international situation in the last four years to warrant such worry.
In the sobering words of General Lee Butler, former commander of US nuclear forces. We have so far survived the nuclear age "by some combination of skill, luck and divine intervention -- probably the latter in greatest proportion." Current nuclear postures are what Dr. Bruce Blair calls "accidents waiting to happen." https://outskirtspress.com/uncommoncause
A big unknown threat is the possibility of major informatic attack. Considering that water, electricity is often controled by informatic system, the way people behave when they lack of toilet paper, that could be a major threat.
Electrical grid control system are isolated from the external network, at least for where I work. In short we don't use the internet to control our power station.
My mistake then. I red some time ago that huge and coordinated informatic attack by another country could be a major threat and the problem is that it's hard to know at which point some systems have been hacked. I remembered electric system but maybe my memory failed.
Ironic, the fact that vast sections of American infrastructure are NOT really modernized and thus not interconnected at the digital level probably protects them from an infomatic attack to varying degrees.