A multi-billion dollar ‘modernization’ of US nuclear weapons has delivered an unsurprising ‘next gen’ nuclear arms race. Strategic Demands initially called this ‘modernization’ a “Cold War 2.0”. Now, with war in Ukraine, threats, an announced ‘suspension’ of the New START treaty, a nuclear weapons race that pits the US v Russia and China, […]
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Doomsday Machine
Updated: July 2023 In Memory of a Nuclear War Planner — and a brave man who put together for Robert McNamara the revealing history of the Vietnam war then released the “Pentagon Papers” for the American people to see and discern the harsh reality of wartime lies and disaster
ICBMs ‘Hair-trigger’ Launch on Warning Era Must End
As readers of Strategic Demands may recall, your editor as a younger man was close to Dan Ellsberg during his Rand research days in Santa Monica. Dan’s role with the “Pentagon Papers” was historic, but few know of Dan Ellsberg’s role as a U.S. nuclear war planner…
Oppenheimer: The Movie
GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands Snapshot of Reviews the Day After Oppenheimer’s Premiere (with a personal memory of a father’s flight over the Trinity site days after ‘the Bomb’ was first tested by Los Alamos scientists) ♦
The Movement and the Madman: 1969, Near Nuclear Use
PBS The Movement and the ‘Madman’: PBS PREMIERE MARCH 28, 2023 ON AMERICAN EXPERIENCE — A nuclear war planner and National Security Policy staff recall how close the US came to using nuclear weapons in Vietnam in 1969
Nuclear Drills Today
The Russia-Ukraine Crisis… February 19, 2022… ‘Ratcheting Up’, tactical nukes in the field… Nuclear ‘Drills’ as Russian Forces Run ‘Firing Exercises’
Another Point of View re: Helsinki
Press reports of the Putin-Trump meeting in Helsinki converged quickly on a dominant narrative — Putin advanced Russian interests and the US president inexplicably supports (or doesn’t support) Putin’s interests. At Strategic Demands, as an independent voice distinct from news cycle narratives, we focus here on our interests, the ‘issue of issues’, nuclear weapons
Stewards of the Apocalypse
Our two nuclear labs, Los Alamos and Sandia National laboratories, are the world’s foremost facilities for the production of mass death on demand… Over the past 60 years, our country has spent $7 trillion of its citizens’ labor and money to generate 70,000 nuclear warheads at an average cost of about $100 million […]