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Trump to Pull US Out of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the US is pulling out of the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, a decades-old agreement that has drawn the ire of the President.
[...] The treaty forced both countries to eliminate ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between approximately 300 and 3,400 miles. It offered a blanket of protection to the United States' European allies and marked a watershed agreement between two nations at the center of the arms race during the Cold War.
Former State Department spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby, a CNN military and diplomatic analyst, explained that the treaty "wasn't designed to solve all of our problems with the Soviet Union," but was "designed to provide a measure of some strategic stability on the continent of Europe."
"It's the dirt that does it."
Donald Trump: US will build up nuclear arsenal
President Donald Trump has warned that the US will bolster its nuclear arsenal to put pressure on Russia and China. Speaking to reporters, he repeated his belief that Russia has violated the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which he has threatened to leave. Russia denies this.
The Cold War-era treaty banned medium-range missiles, reducing the perceived Soviet threat to European nations.
Russia has warned it will respond in kind if the US develops more weapons. Mr Trump said the US would build up its arsenal "until people come to their senses".
[...] Meanwhile, US National Security Adviser John Bolton has been holding talks in Moscow after Russia condemned the US plan to quit the deal. Mr Bolton was told that the US withdrawal would be a "serious blow" to the non-proliferation regime.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 24 2018, @07:04AM
Fallout is radioactive dirt. The radioactivity comes from the nuclei in certain isotopes being raised to a higher and unstable energy level by the radiation from The Bomb. In the specific case of silver, neutron bombardment result in one of two isotopes that emit gamma rays with a half life of IIRC roughly ten minutes.
Fallout is dangerous because it has a very short half life. It has absorbed a great many tasty and nutritious neutrons so dropping to a stable energy level gives off lots of radiation. Sad!
If you want to survive a nuclear war, move way the hell out into the countryside then invest in a diesel generator for your home as well as a big tank of the fuel. After Soviet Union set us up Bomb, you'll also want some HEPA filters. They were invented by the Manhattan project to get Plutonium dust out of the air and are the best thing for airborne allergies.
You'll only need to be in your fallout shelter for two weeks, but oddly the FEMA pamphlet I read about them a while back completely failed to mention sanitation. It explained how to make a shelter out of a whole bunch of books, but with the tacit implications that you'll be shitting and pissing in your pants for two weeks.
Beats radiation sickness, I expect. Low to modest doses will cause cancer, but higher doses will lead the linings of your intestines to liquify.
Also buy a radio that can be powered by a hand crank - those are readily available specifically for emergency use.
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