By John Farnam
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Nukes!
The last time “civil defense” was so much as mentioned, even in the Republican Party Platform, was in 1984!
Pushed by the likes of Carl Sagan, who was wedded to the dogma of unilateral nuclear disarmament on the part of the USA, a blatantly false narrative was pressed upon the American public by our liberal media.
They insisted that the only possible scenario was a “spasm war” between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, in which each side immediately threw everything in their nuclear arsenals at each other without reserve, thus instantly wiping-out all human life on Earth. “Nuclear winter,” they assured us, would follow, and kill all survivors. Then, a toxic girdle of radioactivity would completely engulf the world for millions of years, leaving the planet habitable only by cockroaches.
That scenario was, and still is, complete BS!
Lying leftists who pushed it all knew better, but preferred prevarication to the truth, as they always do! Few, even those in government who are paid to worry about all this, have updated their thinking.
Ignorance is bliss, and there will be a firestorm of liberal protest when DJT (Donald J Trump) even suggests that individual Americans so much as lift a finger to prepare for any kind of nuclear incident.
No one wants “bliss” disturbed!
What has happened is the “Nuclear Club” has many new, and unstable, members! China, North Korea, Pakistan, and India are all confirmed members of the “Club.” Israel is an unofficial, but certain, member. Saudi Arabia is a likely member, as is Japan. Iran, with our help, will be joining shortly (if they haven’t already).
The world is currently more volatile than at any time since the end of WWII. Expansion of “The Club” is one big reason!
Over the past half-century, major nuclear powers have moved to small yields, increased accuracy and targeting flexibility. One nuclear weapon even several, will not wipe out all human life, nor will their be any kind of lethal “radioactive blanket” covering the world!
“Nuclear winter” is a complete fantasy!
A “nuclear exchange” between the two or three members of “The Club” will not only fail to end life on our planet, it will fail even to substantially inconvenience much of it, particularly in the southern hemisphere, most of Asia, and most of Africa.
However, there will surely be mass casualties, and life as we know it will change radically, and permanently.
In what ways?
Impossible to predict!
Our focus in CONUS should be individual readiness, since as noted above, any kind of organized “civil defense” is dead and buried. We needn’t imagine “help” arriving any time soon, when “human nature” takes over!
“There are things that you cannot imagine, but there is nothing that may not happen!” ~ CIA Axiom
/John
About John Farnam & Defense Training International, Inc
As a defensive weapons and tactics instructor John Farnam will urge you, based on your own beliefs, to make up your mind in advance as to what you would do when faced with an imminent and unlawful lethal threat. You should, of course, also decide what preparations you should make in advance, if any. Defense Training International wants to make sure that their students fully understand the physical, legal, psychological, and societal consequences of their actions or inactions.
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Nuclear winter is in fact a very real possibility, provided that a substantial number of megaton-sized weapons were exploded on the surface, thus bringing a maximum amount of material into the upper atmosphere. On the other hand, air bursts, even of large multi-megaton weapons, would likely not trigger a nuclear winter, as they simply don’t put that much material into the upper atmosphere. Nuclear winter-like conditions are confirmed to have been triggered by multiple near simultaneous impacts on Earth from space material (meteorites and material from a decaying comet being the major threats in this aspect.) The dramatic global-wide chilling… Read more »
Had to laugh at all of this. Yeah yeah Russia is a potential threat, but not the one to start making brown stains in your shorts about. That threat is North Korea. They now have the means to take out the grid in the western half of the US. And a nut case leading the country. Why worry about Russia who is just pissed that they got scared into submission back in the 80’s by Reagan. Anyone who studies Russian history and actually tries to understand their mentality would know that they only respond to the bigger stick. They aren’t… Read more »
Maybe the missing $6 Trillion and change had gone into a secret civil defense program ? They had been building and stocking all those DUMBS just for us, and they will give us advanced notice and a limo will arrive at your front door to get you there. (Keep Dreaming) !
The best civil defence we have going right now is an arm and willing population!!! Stay strong and locked n loaded!!!
The picture of a civilized world is nothing more than smoke and mirrors! The elite have created a fraud on “We the People,” stolen our Constitution (incorprorated the USA back in the 1800’s) and have enslave our Nation to Corporations, the Banks (Fed Reserve), the Military Industrial Complex, and the elected crime families across our Nation..!!! “We the People” better get smart real fast, and I believe millions are now finally awake, and “We the People” better start pulling together to save our Nation NOW or all it is finished and you may as well resign yourself to the coming,… Read more »
If you’ve been listening to the types of new nuclear weapons Russia is fielding; then you’d realize current and future Russian nuclear weapons don’t have smaller yields. That’s a false narrative. For the US nuclear arsenal that unfortunately is true. The US military has nukes of smaller yields with greater accuracy, but there is a strategic flaw with that thinking. It’s almost as if greenpeace designed our most current crop of nuclear weapons. Ever since we retired the MK-41 25MT bomb in 1976 we never considered looking back to replace same size Nuclear weapons. We went smaller down to 1.2… Read more »
I liked the old Civil Defense Program we had in school. Get down under your “Bullet Proof, Nuclear Fallout Shelter” school desk and tuck your head between your knees. We used to say the last part of that was to tuck your head between your knees as far as you could and kiss your a** GOODBYE! Ahhhhhhhh – the good old school days.
China is among the five nuclear powers with permanent seats on the UN Security Council (the other two are the UK and France). They’re certainly not a new member to the nuclear club.
John, why are you confusing Carl Sagan’s BS science fiction nuclear winter and the Civil Defense program? I have studied nuclear war survival since the late 1970s and no where to be found in any CD manual on nuclear war survival is nuclear winter. The left used leftist Sagan’s nuclear winter crap to discredit the idea that nuclear war is survivable- which it is. The Kremlin used their leftist tools in the US and the US media/Hollyweird to brainwash the American public into thinking that the civil defense program was a joke all the while the Soviets were spending hundreds… Read more »
I was just sitting here typing my opinion about potential future disaster, the magnitude of a disaster, and the longevity of a national level disaster, when all the electricity went off. That no electricity, no air conditioning, no refrigeration disaster lasted 61 seconds. Suppose it would have gone on and lasted another 61 days or 6.1 years?