152 - TRUMP, TEN COMMANDMENTS, NUCLEAR STOCKPILES, NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON, WORST-CASE SCENARIO

This week's program is based on a recently released book "NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO" by Annie Jacobsen 

Since the early 1950s, the United States government has spent trillions of dollars preparing to fight a nuclear war, while also refining protocols meant to keep the U.S. government functioning after hundreds of millions of Americans become casualties of an apocalyptic-scale nuclear holocaust...the plans for General Nuclear War are among the most classified secrets held by the U.S. government.

There is no such thing as a small nuclear war” is an oft repeated phrase in Washington.

1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eighty million degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature that occurs at the center of the Earth’s sun.

Humans created the nuclear weapon in the twentieth century to save the world from evil, and now, in the twenty-first century, the nuclear weapon is about to destroy the world. To burn it all down.

their only hope for survival is to figure out how to “self-survive.” That here begins a “fight for food, water, Pedialyte . . .

for all these years, since the end of World War II, the U.S. government has been preparing for, and rehearsing plans for, a General Nuclear War. A nuclear World War III that is guaranteed to leave, at minimum, 2 billion dead. A Plan for nuclear war is genocide.

Four thousand times more explosive power than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.What does this even mean—and is it something one’s brain can fully comprehend?

More immediately, can anyone stop the plan for mass extermination before it happens?”

The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945 killed more than 80,000 people in a single strike. The total numbers are debated still.  

What happened after U.S. war planners saw what 10.4 megatons could instantly destroy simply boggles the mind. What came next was a mad, mad rush to stockpile thermonuclear weapons, first by the hundreds and then by the thousands. In 1952 there were 841 nuclear bombs. The next year there were 1,169.

“The process became industrialized,” Los Alamos historian Glen McDuff explains. “These were not science projects anymore.”

By 1954, there were 1,703 nuclear weapons in the stockpile. The U.S. military-industrial complex was now churning out (on average) 1.5 nuclear weapons per day. 1955: 2,422. Almost two bombs per day, and with ten new systems introduced including three new styles of thermonuclear bombs.” 1956: 3,692 bombs. The numbers continued to escalate to the point of dizziness. With production levels soaring, these mass-destruction weapons were now coming off literal assembly lines at an average pace of 3.5 nuclear bombs per day.

By 1957, there were 5,543 bombs in the U.S. stockpile. That is, 1,851 new nuclear weapons in a single year.

And the numbers kept growing. 1958: 7,345. And growing. 1959: 12,298. By 1960, when the U.S. war planners met in the underground bunker in Nebraska, the U.S. stockpile contained 18,638 nuclear bombs. By 1967, it reached an all-time high of 31,255 nuclear bombs. Thirty-one thousand, two hundred and fifty-five nuclear bombs.