Noam Chomsky: Nuclear War More Likely Today Than During Cold War

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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Noam-Chomsky-Warns-Nuclear-War-Is-More-Possible-Today-20160207-0035.html

Noam Chomsky: Nuclear War More Likely Today Than During Cold War

Published 7 February 2016

The threat of a nuclear war, Chomksy said, is greater today than during the Cold War.


U.S. linguist, analyst, intellectual and writer Noam Chomsky warned that a nuclear war is more imminent today than during the Cold War as the Pentagon expands its 800 bases around the globe in an attempt to dominate the world.

Chomsky said he believes a nuclear war would be something highly irrational, but could happen due to an accident or a human error.

“The threat of a nuclear war is greater today than during the Cold War,” he said in an interview published by La Jornada on Sunday. “The risk of a nuclear war is concentrated in the proliferation of incidents involving armed forces of nuclear powers.”

He continued saying, “Russia is the main pebble in the shoe of the Pentagon's world domination because it has an enormous military system.”

The linguist argued that the “problem is that both Russia and the United States are increasing their military systems acting as if war were possible, which is part of a collective madness.”

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[PearliePoo2]

1. Not to mention there's also..

the boy lunatic in North Korea playing with his toys that go BOOM.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. I Don't Trust The North Koreans Or

I don't trust the North Koreans, nor do I trust the Pakistanis. My fear is that the former will start a war with nuclear bombs and threats to use more, and the latter will either have a regime change or lose control of some of their bombs.

The Iranians are more problematic. They may have stopped their bomb-making for now, but even without their saber-rattling at Israel, they, too, have reason to worry about Pakistan's nukes.

[IDemo]

4. Eisenhower and Kennedy were pressured to use a first strike against the USSR

There were those at the higher echelon of the Pentagon and intelligence community who believed that US nukes were a squandered resource if not used, even if that meant in a first strike to eliminate the 'Red Threat'. The nuke solution was also proposed for Cuba and Vietnam.

If another Cuban Missile Crisis scenario were to occur, I'm having a hard time picturing Putin and Clinton working jointly to avoid global destruction in the way Kruschev and Kennedy did.