{"id":179795,"date":"2017-10-23T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/23\/this-dick-waving-is-going-to-get-us-all-killed\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T02:07:00","slug":"this-dick-waving-is-going-to-get-us-all-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/23\/this-dick-waving-is-going-to-get-us-all-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"This Dick Waving Is Going to Get Us All Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have reports that, for the first time since 1991, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2017\/10\/exclusive-us-preparing-put-nuclear-bombers-back-24-hour-alert\/141957\/\">the United States Air Force will be putting nuclear bombers back on round-the clock nuclear alert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1991\/09\/29\/world\/bush-s-arm-plan-and-for-the-b-52-s-the-alert-is-finally-over.html\">not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>That means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends of this base\u2019s 11,000-foot runway \u2014 dubbed the \u201cChristmas tree\u201d for their angular markings \u2014 could once again find several B-52s parked on them, laden with nuclear weapons and set to take off at a moment\u2019s notice.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis is yet one more step in ensuring that we\u2019re prepared,\u201d Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, said in an interview during his six-day tour of Barksdale and other U.S. Air Force bases that support the nuclear mission. \u201cI look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for the reality of the global situation we find ourselves in and how we ensure we\u2019re prepared going forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am <b>NOT<\/b> feeling any safer right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have reports that, for the first time since 1991, the United States Air Force will be putting nuclear bombers back on round-the clock nuclear alert: The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991. That means &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,379,477,406],"class_list":["post-179795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-military","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}