Little did I know that the government were on a war footing and had completed a draft of a Queen's Speech to calm us all in the event of
nuclear warfare.
Stockpile provides insight into both the technical aspects of
nuclear warfare and the personalities that shaped the force.
The
nuclear warfare, being calamitous, is nevertheless, unlike popular perception, far from being apocalyptic.
The threats include acts of bioterrorism, nuclear calamities and/or
nuclear warfare, overpopulation, asteroid and meteor threats, super volcanoes, mass tectonic earthquakes, rogue self-replicating nano-machines, super intelligent computers and high-energy chain-reactions that could disrupt the fabric of space itself.
Military medicine has developed into a sophisticated specialty (and) includes such disciplines as tropical medicine,
nuclear warfare, chemical weapons, flight surgery, industrial medicine, hygiene, disaster triage, transport and the care of the wounded during transport, combat nutrition, immunisations, epidemiology, management of venomous bites and stings, and the emotional disorders of military life.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta added an important nuance to US policy on Iran Sunday, indicating Washington would tolerate the Islamic Republic developing
nuclear warfare technology but would go to war to stop Iran from actually building a bomb.
He was a renowned expert in tactical
nuclear warfare, NATO, and political-military long range planning.
Strat Com has long been the government center for
nuclear warfare planning and now oversees space warfare plans as well.
He describes why and how the buildup happened; the policies and problems faced by presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama; the associated strategies, targeting and attack plans, and arms control measures; the role of the military in establishing requirements and the role of scientists in meeting them; the failure of the media and academia to educate the public about
nuclear warfare; the weapons and delivery systems and strengths and weaknesses of each; and individuals who participated in developing policies, strategies, and plans for the use of the stockpile.