mrbaseball_cpr

so nice to see a subject of such understated urgency being actively discussed in an open forum. while i do believe that china poses a much bigger threat than might be seen at first, i also am VERY concerned by the new proposed guidelines for forward deployed US field commanders in the use of battlefield and intratheatre nukes. very disturbing; basically, they will be able to request authorization for release of nuclear weapons in most any situation they feel isn't going quite as planned. also, part of these guidelines would practically make it a guarantee that at some point in a conflict, if biologicals are used on ground troops, that the US could nuke its own soldiers in order to prevent spread of a virulent or contagious pathogen. the justification would be for the greater good of all involved, "to protect citizens from this horrible disease".....i can see it now. the wording, after all, did say specifically that authorization might be given to prevent the spread of or eliminate the confirmed (or implied, as the case might as easily be) presence of contagious and/or incapacitating pathogens. in a war scenario involving nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, the use of any one of the three can and most likely will trigger the release of the other two. long story short, any scenario involving NBC's is a bad, bad one.also, i am very concerned about china's seeming willingness to sacrifice a large percentage of its civilian population in a nuclear exchange. my feeling about that is simply this: the chinese gov't would welcome the loss of millions of its own people as a blessing. more food and resources to go around. sounds sick, but in a nuclear war, this thinking makes all the sense in the world. with an infrastructure all but completely destroyed, industrial capacity extremely limited and arable land all but lost in the impending fallout and subsequent decades-long radioactive decay, the fewer people you have to feed and house, perhaps, the better.