If there was ever a nuclear war with Russia, what would the probability of the US missile silo crew surviving?
Zero. Here’s a map of probable targets in a nuclear exchange:
Those giant black blobs in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming are America’s ICBM fields, and they are the highest of high priorities for annihilation – even more than decapitating the government (because neutering it is just as effective).
America’s ICBM silos would be so saturated by nuclear detonations to deny the US a “second strike” capability that everyone in the area will be dead 10 times over.
Why I changed my mind about nuclear power | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxBerlin
Nuclear energy is the only practical alternative that we have to destroying the environment with oil and coal.-Ansel Adams, 1983 (14 min)
Former Trump Adviser Pushed Saudi Nuclear-Plant Plan, Report Says
Mike Flynn and others within the White House ignored repeated legal and ethical warnings, according to House report
Former national-security adviser Mike Flynn and others within the White House ignored repeated legal and ethical warnings as they pushed early in President Trump’s tenure a plan to build dozens of nuclear-power reactors in Saudi Arabia, according to a report released Tuesday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The report describes how Mr. Flynn and Derek Harvey, whom Mr. Flynn brought to the National Security Council staff to oversee Middle East affairs, worked closely on the plan with a group of retired U.S. generals and admirals who had formed a private company to promote it.
Despite the warnings from career White House staff—and an order by the NSC’s top lawyer to stand down—the White House officials and their private-sector allies worked to place the idea on Mr. Trump’s agenda during a phone call with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, and to be discussed during the U.S. president’s May 2017 trip to Riyadh, his first overseas trip as president, the report says.
The Wall Street Journal first reported many of the details of the Saudi plan and Mr. Flynn’s efforts to advance it inside the White House in a series of articles in 2017.
The plan for U.S. companies to build nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, part of an ambitious “Middle East Marshall Plan,” was billed by advocates as a way to revive the moribund U.S. nuclear industry, create jobs and reassert American influence in the region.
But one unnamed senior official quoted in the report derided the idea as “a scheme for these generals to make some money.”