Putin threatens ISIS with nuclear annihilation

waltky · Dec 10, 2015

Putin lettin' ISIS know nothing is off the table...

Putin says he hopes Russia never needs to use nukes against Islamic State
Dec. 9, 2015 - "I hope we will never need it," Putin said of using nuclear weapons against terrorists.

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on Wednesday indicated that nothing is off the table when it comes to fighting Islamic State terrorists -- including the prospect of digging into Moscow's nuclear arsenal. During a discussion with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, broadcast by the state-sponsored RT news agency, Putin said the nation must use whatever means possible to defeat militants determined to wreak havoc in their jihad against the world. "We certainly need to analyze everything that is happening on the battlefield," Putin said before citing rockets in Russia's arsenal. "These are new, modern and highly effective high-precision weapons that can be equipped either with conventional or special nuclear warheads." "Naturally, we do not need that in fighting terrorists, and I hope we will never need it," he continued. "But overall, this speaks to our significant progress in terms of improving weaponry."

Putin's remarks come amid repeated airstrikes by Moscow against terror targets in Syria, first launched weeks ago as the Russian government aims to step up its fight against militants. Tuesday, Putin's regime announced a new round of strikes from a Russian submarine in the Mediterranean against a terror stronghold in Syria.

Despite Putin's mention of nuclear weapons, the Russian president and other officials emphasized that such a drastic step would certainly come as only a last resort. "There is no need to use any nuclear weapons against terrorists," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "They can be defeated through conventional means, and this is fully in line with our military doctrine." Nuclear weapons have only been used in warfare twice in history, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, during the U.S. campaign in the Pacific Theater in World War II.

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waltky · Dec 30, 2015

From someone who knows whereof he speaks...

Crusading Former Pentagon Chief: Nuclear Dangers Are Growing
Dec 29, 2015 | by Robert Burns > WASHINGTON -- Late in a life lived unnervingly near the nuclear abyss, William J. Perry is on a mission to warn of a "real and growing danger" of nuclear doom.

The 88-year-old former defense secretary is troubled by the risks of catastrophe from the very weapons he helped develop. Atop his list: a nuclear terror attack in a major U.S. city or a shooting war with Russia that, through miscalculation, turns nuclear. A terrorist attack using a nuclear bomb or improvised nuclear device could happen "any time now -- next year or the year after," he said in an interview with reporters earlier this month. Perry chooses his words with the precision of a mathematician, which he was before entering the defense world in the mid-1950s. He played a central role in developing and modernizing nuclear forces throughout the Cold War -- first as a technology whiz-kid and later a three-time senior Pentagon executive. During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis Perry was secretly summoned to Washington to analyze intelligence on Soviet weapons in Cuba. "Every day that I went to the analysis center I thought would be my last day on earth," he writes in a newly published memoir, "My Journey at the Nuclear Brink." He says he believed then and still believes that the world avoided a nuclear holocaust as much by good luck as by good management.

Former Defense Secretary William Perry answers questions from guests during a dinner for technology industry leaders held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.

In the interview, he recounted a harrowing incident in November 1979 when, as a senior Pentagon official, he was awakened by a 3 a.m. phone call from the underground command center responsible for warning of a missile attack. The watch officer told Perry his computers were showing 200 nuclear-armed missiles on their way from the Soviet Union to the United States. "It was, of course, a false alarm," Perry said, but it was one of many experiences throughout the Cold War and beyond that he says have given him a "unique and chilling vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons no longer provide for our security they now endanger it." His views are remarkable, not least because they strike at the heart of the conventional wisdom about nuclear weapons that has been embraced by both political parties for decades. For example, Perry thinks the U.S. nuclear force no longer needs land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, and can rely on the other two "legs" of the force -- bomber aircraft and submarine-based missiles. ICBMs should be scrapped, he says, adding, "I don't think it's going to happen, but I think it should happen. They're not needed" to deter nuclear aggression.

He also opposes the Obama administration's plan to build a new nuclear-capable cruise missile. Perry looks at Russia's nuclear modernization and U.S. plans to spend hundreds of billions to update its nuclear arsenal and sees irrational nuclear competition. "I see an imperative to stop this damn nuclear race before it gets under way again, not just for the cost but for the danger it puts all of us in," he said. When the Cold War ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Perry thought the world had dodged a nuclear bullet. In his first book, co-authored in 1999 with the man now running the Pentagon, Ash Carter, Perry argued that the demise of the Soviet system meant nuclear disaster was no longer an "A List" threat. By 2014, his optimism had faded, in no small part because of the collapse of cooperative relations between Washington and Moscow, which has ended any realistic prospect of new arms control agreements and, in Perry's view, has put the two countries on a dangerous path toward confrontation. "We are facing nuclear dangers today that are in fact more likely to erupt into a nuclear conflict than during the Cold War," Perry said in a recent speech.

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APACHERAT · Dec 30, 2015

Nuclear weapons or the threat of using nukes should always remain on the table.

That's why their wasn't an nuclear exchange during the Cold War.

It has been the threat of nukes that prevented WW lll.

Unlike Obama the community organizer who is completely clueless, Putin understands why WW lll never happened.

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