{"id":200516,"date":"2021-03-17T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/17\/this-is-completely-insane\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:01:00","slug":"this-is-completely-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/17\/this-is-completely-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Completely Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boris Johnson and his merry band of blood-thirsty prats have decided that nuclear weapons are an appropriate response to agents of foreign governments hacking systems in the UK<\/a>.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

This is completely bat-sh%$ insane.<\/p>\n

Britain is prepared to launch nuclear weapons if the country was faced with an exceptionally destructive attack using cyber or other \u201cemerging technologies\u201d, according to the integrated defence review.<\/p>\n

The stark statement marks a change from existing UK policy, which had been that Trident<\/a> missiles could only be launched against another nuclear power, or potentially in response to extreme chemical or biological threats.<\/p>\n

The new policy says Britain would \u201creserve the right\u201d to use nuclear weapons in the face of \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d, which includes \u201cemerging technologies that could have a comparable impact\u201d to chemical or biological weapons.<\/p>\n

It sets the UK in a different direction to the US, where the newly elected president, Joe Biden, had floated the idea during his election campaign of making the \u201csole purpose\u201d of nuclear weapons<\/a> to deter or if necessary to retaliate against a nuclear attack.<\/p>\n

No further detail was spelled out in the document, published on Tuesday, but analysts said the shift in language was significant. Tom Plant, a director at the Royal United Services Institute thinktank, said: \u201cThis is clearly an indication that the UK government perceives the potential for some combination of novel technologies, in years to come, to rival existing WMD.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just imagine what happens if someone starts downloading pr0n using Boris’ Netflix account. <\/p>\n

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Shall we play a game?<\/i><\/p>\n

Love to.  How about Global Thermonuclear war?\u2020<\/sup><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then there is this. <\/p>\n

Discussion about Britain\u2019s new nuclear policy unveiled by Boris Johnson, reversing 30 years of modest disarmament<\/a> since the end of the cold war, dominated the publication of a 100-page integrated review of defence and foreign policy.<\/p>\n

It confirmed leaks from Monday night that the UK would allow the cap on its nuclear weapon stockpile to rise to 260 from a target of 180<\/a> \u201cby the mid-2020s\u201d \u2013 and that the UK would abandon a second pledge to hold a lower number of operational warheads, previously set at 120.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a violation of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NNTP) which the UK is a party to. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Defence sources said the decision to lift the warhead cap by over 40% was motivated by a desire to be more assertive about nuclear weapons. \u201cIf we have them, let\u2019s not apologise for it, let\u2019s own it,\u201d an insider added. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So this is just all dick swinging.  Lovely.<\/p>\n

So now, Boris is the world’s problem.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>As Anna Russell would say, “I’m not making this up, you know.”<\/span>
\u2020<\/sup>Yes, I know. I am referring to two completely different movies. Get over it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boris Johnson and his merry band of blood-thirsty prats have decided that nuclear weapons are an appropriate response to agents of foreign governments hacking systems in the UK.* This is completely bat-sh%$ insane. Britain is prepared to launch nuclear weapons if the country was faced with an exceptionally destructive attack using cyber or other \u201cemerging …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987,999,1044,1286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-insane","category-nuclear-weapons","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200516"}],"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=200516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}