North Korea's hydrogen bomb test

[aviator41]

Yes, thank goodness. John Kerry's on the job.

Yeah, thank goodness for that.

 

[Dale00]

The sobering reality is that we are at the end of the 70 year strategy of attempting to contain the spread of nuclear weapons and at the beginning of a dangerous new era of coping with the threat of nuclear weapons. The gap between the new dangers and the old thinking can be seen in the totally inadequate design of the Department of Homeland Security. As originally proposed in the Hart-Rudman Commission’s work in 2000 this department should be sized to handle simultaneous nuclear events in three different cities. Today, 15 years later, it could not adequately handle one nuclear event. Yet the spread of nuclear capability to North Korea, Pakistan, Iran and elsewhere virtually guarantees weapons could be used in the near future. We now have to develop a two prong strategy which both focuses diplomatically on minimizing their spread and the danger of their use and focuses national security and homeland security assets on surviving nuclear events if diplomacy fails.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/07/newt-gingrich-new-words-new-world/

Time to start reading the Prepping thread and to buy the stock of companies selling iodine pills.

Safe room installers: a new business opportunity may be just around the corner

 

[Defnestor]

I'm torn on whether this is real or a hoax. It all comes down to whether hitlery had h-bomb specs emailed to her or not.

 

[Dale00]

Clinton: Abuse of Power...I like this phrase, sums a lot up nicely

But for Hillary Clinton, the question is not how would you handle North Korea but how did you handle it? The simple and unnerving answer is she chose to ignore it. Michael Hirsh, writing in Foreign Policy in 2013: Other pressing issues, such as North Korea’s nuclear program, she simply put off. Her policy of “strategic patience” with North Korea, under which Washington refused to offer any new incentives to Pyongyang in the hopes of restarting nuclear disarmament talks, did not work. The problem festered for four years, and as soon as Clinton left office, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un greeted her successor with yet another nuclear test. Unsurprisingly, this was not her promised approach; in her confirmation hearing, she declared, “Our goal is to end the North Korean nuclear program, both the plutonium reprocessing program and the highly enriched uranium program.”

Even worse, her husband – who, as president, approved a plan to give $4 billion in aid to North Korea in exchange for broken promises – wanted to accept a paid speaking gig from the North Koreans: Mr. Clinton was paid for more than 200 speeches while Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, according to his wife’s disclosure forms. Documents released thus far by the State Department show the ethics office turned down five of his speech requests, including proposed talks sponsored by North Korea, China and the Republic of Congo.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429393/bill-clinton-wanted-accept-north-korean-speaking-gig