(2 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Now here is something that should make the hair on the back of you neck stand up.
By Tom Boggioni, Raw Story
[..]Last Week Tonight on HBO, host John Oliver took up the very important, but much ignored, topic of America’s aging nuclear arsenal. Oliver noted our weapons facilities are plagued by crumbling infrastructure, suspect military oversight, politicians refusing to cut-off funding, and computers so old they run on floppy disks.
Pointing out that, despite cut backs in our nuclear arsenal, America still maintains 4,804 nuclear warheads, Oliver notes that is enough to “not only destroy Earth, but provide 4th of July fireworks for Martians.”
With nuclear ICBMs located in silos in Wyoming, Montana, and North Carolina, Oliver shared a wealth of clips describing poor maintenance and computers designed to launch the missiles using ancient software still contained on 5.25-inch floppy disks.
“Holy shit!,” Oliver exclaimed. “Those things barely look powerful enough to run Oregon Trail, much less earth-ending weaponry.”
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need a place to publish it. I’m cataloging all the antiwar, anti-imperialism, anti-nuclear weapon, and Peace organizations, websites, blogs, etc., that I can find. I’ve got a list of about fifty some now and am looking at each website to see what it’s about, who they are, etc.
This is riffing off a couple of movements being generated against war and climate change.
Voices on the Square seems to be broken.
Anyway, my goal is to get them all together to meet for coffee.