. . . An update and an introduction to new readers for what “ LLAWS All Things Nuclear”, and our two user websites, a commercial publishing website, ‘Substack’ and my own personal website, LLAW’s WORLDS, as my blog continues on slowly but surely. My website is home to my nightly blog “LLAW’S ALL THINGs NUCLEAR’ complementing the daily effort of preparation, writing, and contributing, along with my Posts from both the website and Substack.com Postings each evening. Both Links are Posted every evening on my Facebook page, my email, and I would love to see more of your thoughts and comments on any one, or even on all three venues.
This extremely anti-nuclear blog has taken a long time getting off the ground (more than 600 nightly Posts), but it is slowly gaining traction, partly because the nuclear threats to humanity and other life on planet Earth have only continued on in a gradually more serious vein since my original post on August 24th of 2022.
My Posts (on either venue, or email) are free and are there to help educate the public that ‘all things nuclear’ will be the death of all us and other life if we do not remove it from the evil hands that control its deathly road to extermination.
Hiding our heads in the sand or following our world leaders over the canyon cliff does not solve the problem, so ignorance and avoiding the reality of it all is not the solution. In fact dismissing or ignoring that reality only increases the likelihood that it will happen.
I say this because I know the ‘story’ of ‘all things nuclear’ and worked in management for a corporation in the nuclear industry, I am sad to say, from the 1960s into the 1980s and bought into into nuclear energy propaganda until the 1979 Three-Mile Island disaster awakened me. So I urge you to take a few minutes occasionally to read my blog to learn more than you will otherwise ever know about the genocide we are facing at any given moment in the future, beginning now . . . ~llaw
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Referring to the Forbes article below (written by a contributor), how hard is it to talk out of both sides of your mouth at the same time? Well, I guess if all you care about is “money” (the author is an economist), it seems to be pretty easy; all you need to do is take a deep breath between comments in order to contradict yourself.
This is the same nuclear power plant (the last commercial plant on the Pacific coast) owned by the same company (PG&E) that I have railed against for years and Californian’s know exactly why. But for this article to say that providing a ‘reprieve’ to the scheduled shut-down in 2025 and that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is “dysfunctional” with “outdated attitudes” are beyond the pale of simple ignorance. Old age of nuclear power plants being decommissioned at their specified retirement dates is not because of ‘economics’, but because of ‘safety’. The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant has already experienced radiation leakage from cracks in its reactors. Allowing it to operate beyond its ‘retirement’ date is inviting far more trouble than even PG&E has experienced in its hideously and terribly destructive irresponsible past. ~llaw
California’s Diablo Canyon Plant Shows Nuclear Power’s Aging Problem
I am an economist focused on the economics of regulation.
Apr 29, 2024,12:15am EDT
California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant has had a tumultuous history. The plant’s two reactors came online in 1985 and 1987, following more than a decade of protests and legal battles. More recently, despite consistently providing about 9% of California’s electricity, the plant was scheduled to close its two reactors in 2024 and 2025. But in 2022, California lawmakers passed legislation enabling Diablo Canyon to remain open until 2030, and state and federal regulators recently approved the extension.
Diablo Canyon’s reprieve is a rare bright spot for U.S. nuclear power, which has struggled in recent decades. The U.S. fleet is aging fast—the average reactor is about 40 years old. Several plants have closed prematurely in recent years due to economic pressures, and more are slated to shut down.
While keeping Diablo Canyon open a bit longer makes sense from a reliability and emissions perspective, the plant’s history reveals deeper challenges facing the industry. These challenges help explain why the U.S. nuclear fleet increasingly resembles a gerontocracy—rule by the old—rather than a thriving, innovative sector.
Building new nuclear plants is extraordinarily difficult and costly in the U.S., thanks in large part to a dysfunctional regulatory approach to radiation risks. Regulators rely on models that assume any radiation exposure increases cancer risks, even at very low doses. This drives extremely strict exposure limits and safety requirements.
However, evidence is mounting that low-dose radiation is less harmful than commonly assumed, and may even have some health benefits by stimulating cellular repair mechanisms. Yet outdated attitudes remain entrenched among regulators, based more on unscientific precaution than objective risk assessment.
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There are several better-than-usual good media stories in the “LLAW’S ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” RELATED MEDIA, so please take the time to review the categorized links. There are no news stories in the ‘Nuclear Power Emergencies’ category. Following is a draft of Chapter 3 of the fictional novel I am writing that will soon begin expanding into the root of the story — that nuclear power is virtually as dangerous to human and other life as nuclear war. ~llaw
El Nuclear Diablo
(Chapter 3)
(A novel by Lloyd Albert Williams-Pendergraft)
(Review of Chapter 2 (Unedited Draft)
Albert Williams is questioned about his nuclear lab and his operation at the Pathfinder ranch in Wyoming on the flight from Vancouver Island to San Francisco by the two military generals where he selects two of his best employees at his Stanford lab employees to accompany himself and the small military group to Casper, Wyoming, where they will abandon their military Boeing 737, turning it over to two newly assigned military pilots, and transfer to a Gulfstream jet owned by Albert Williams where the plane and Williams’ personal pilots will be waiting in a hangar at the secured municipal airport there.)
Chapter 3 (unedited draft)
Shortly after we are in the air heading due east, Sabrisse sits down in the seat next to me. She smiles at me, her pretty face filled with warmth and her dark eyes reflect her sparkling spirit. She wants to begin her biographical sketch of me on a more personal level than the prior information she has scraped up online about me.
“Where were you born?”, she asks. “I already know when, so you don’t need to mention the date.” Her smile widens a little, showing her even white teeth for an instant, then looks down at her pen and notebook.
“I was born in Wheatland, Wyoming, not too far from where we are going,” I respond. “But I grew up living in some 16 communities in just Wyoming, and my father was moved to Tensleep, Wyoming, before I ever knew there were towns on planet Earth. He was a game warden and game wardens were relocated every three or four years to different communities in the state so that friendships with the residents never got too close.”
“Wow,” she says. “So how did you end up becoming educated the way you were, and ending up being a nuclear scientist owning a nuclear testing lab instead of becoming a Wyoming cowboy?” She looked into my eyes with a wide smile.
“Well, it so happened that I was good in math and science when I started high school in a town called Sheridan in northern Wyoming. And Albert Einstein was my idol, and I kind of followed him and another genius named Tesla. Eventually I got a baseball scholarship to Stanford and never left the western part of the country and became seriously interested in the work of the Livermore Labs and their experiments in nuclear fusion, although I never worked for or with the man, but met him in a few of our travels here and there a few times. Instead, I went my own way, providing engineering, construction, instrumentation, and equipment for refining various grades and applications for nuclear fuel until I was able to buy up the Pathfinder Ranch as a place where I could live every part of my professional and recreational life back in Wyoming and live a wild and free life and still do my uranium thing, which was, as I just said, providing ways, means, and methods to convert uranium into nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors as well as, I’m sorry to say these days, nuclear weapons.”
Sabrisse nodded, no doubt mentally acknowledging some of what she already knew about me. “But you’ve still spent most of your life living in Wyoming. . .” she said, more of a statement than a question.
“I still spent, or did up until now, much of my time at my place near Stanford – mostly educating newcomers and experimenting with various kinds of nuclear reactors and their reactions, especially as controlling the stuff’s operational heat functions and its waste products and safety issues relative to humans and other life. I reckon that’s why I’m on this airplane right now.”
“I think I get that,” Sabrisse said, her voice soft—little more than a murmur. “If it’s okay with you, I’d like to visit for a while with the two employees you brought along. And then I’ll have a few more questions for you.”
“Sure,” I said as she got up and stepped into the aisle already on her way back to the two young employees I’d selected to join us on this mission, which was turning out to be somewhat different than I’d originally thought. Something had changed that I didn’t know about. In less than a minute, Marcus Aurilio slid into the seat Sabrisse had just vacated.
“Okay, Albert,” he said, “let me give you a few more surprises about this change of plans for you. I’m sure you are curious. But first I want to tell you what is going on at the moment. This airplane is on the way to Casper, where we will land at the closed Natrona County airport where two military pilots will turn this airplane around and depart immediately on their way back to Juneau where we originally headed because that’s where we expected to find you and where a part of the mission will continue. The present pilots and our assembled crew will remain with us. We want to keep all expectations, except for the few who know better, just the way it was originally planned. They will arrive in Juneau days ahead of the sailboats your friends are on, but they will be informed of your whereabouts as soon as they arrive in Juneau.
“One of your two Gulf Stream private jets is waiting for us in a hanger in Casper, flown by your pilots, Mariah Windis and Davey Jones, who will fly us to your personal airport at your Pathfinder Ranch. Thus it is, that no one will know of our or your own location beyond our people and those of yours already at the ranch. Those outside this last-minute organization loop will still believe you and the rest of us will work from Juneau for reasons you will learn later. By the way Sabrisse Horvat is also a pilot with astronaut training and background.
I had broken into a cold sweat as the general had passed this information along to me. Yet I was also amazed and curious with the timing and speed that this change of plans had been arranged and managed. Of course it was all a mystery to me, and I had no idea what had precipitated this alteration, and that lack of information was part of my anxiety. “Can you tell me why this sudden change of plans happened?”, I asked.
“Not specifically, Albert, but it has to do with communications that apparently only your arrays and capability can handle for all that needs to be done . . . and it needs to remain unknown beyond those of us who need to know.”
“Well, so long as the effort, whatever it is, saves us, and life in general, from extinction, you’ll have all the support and help I have to offer.”
“That’s precisely why we’re sitting next to each other on this airplane, Albert”.
#
Our flight took less than two hours to land in Casper at the deserted airport. We could see that vehicle entrances were chained off with police vehicles also blocking the main entrances to the terminal. We taxied to a nearby hangar along the tarmac, deplaning near the hangar entrance. Inside were the two replacement pilots along with Mariah and Davey who rushed to the door to greet us as we entered, but there were no introductions, handshakes, hugs, or other acknowledgements except a warm smile of greeting to me from Mariah. The military pilots, without more than a nod to the others opened the hangar airplane door and promptly made their way outside to the idling 737, climbed the stairway, and disappeared into the cockpit, obviously well aware of their assignment. In seconds the Boeing jet was on the runway positioned for takeoff. Mariah led the rest of us to the awaiting Gulfstream and we all ascended the stairway into the cabin as Marah and Davey entered the cockpit. Within minutes they had exited the hangar and taxied to the runway apron, ready to take off right behind the 737. We all watched as it accelerated down the runway into a northwest breeze. We followed a minute later, circling back to the south, on our way to the Pathfinder ranch. I felt a strange kind of elation to be on my way there, but had no idea why, simply assuming that I would soon be informed and advised.
“Wow, well that went well,” Sabrisse said, smiling as she slipped into the seat next to me. “Mariah is a beautiful woman and much younger than I thought. How long have you known her, Albert?”
“Perhaps a decade,” I said, thinking about the question. “I met her in Grand Junction, Colorado, along with Kj and her friend, Rachel, both environmental lawyers who you will be meeting when we arrive at Pathfinder. She has been my pilot and companion for at least that long, maybe longer. We’ve been all over the world together, and Davey has been with us for several years also.”
“I know you have a large team of experts in many environmental and nuclear related fields, plus your humanitarian and communications operations, both in California and Wyoming, and I’m sure I’ll get to know more about them all very soon.”
“Our metal will be more than tested now, Sabrisse, that’s for sure, but we have long expected this day would come, but had hoped it wouldn’t. The first thing we have to get done is to deal with finding a massive and effective way to stop radiation from descending upon us. The process is sometimes called radiological environmental remediation. We have some knowledge and ideas that of course we’ve never had a chance to test more than on a small scale and here we are faced with at least a huge local one here in the United States and surrounds that’s the real thing. This Diablo Canyon accident, if that’s what it was, should never have happened had we never used this stuff to try to make us warm and comfortable in the first place. But, still, there may be a way to isolate the major spread of radiation from the west coast across the country, southern Canada and northern Mexico. It has to do with air contamination prevention. But our theories have never been adequately tested, as I just said.”
“Have you really been to the moon?”, Sabrisse asked bluntly, matter of factly.
“I have,” I said, but I can’t talk about it. You will learn a lot very quickly in the next few days. All I can say is that I am thankful our government, which is, of necessity, now of absolute military rather than political control has put their faith in what I know, and how our staff may be able to help save millions upon millions of lives over the very near future. Moving this task to Pathfinder in conjunction with the effort in Juneau will give us a better chance of making it happen.”
Of course, I knew she was just doing her part-time job, and I recognized that she was very good at it.
In less than twenty minutes we would be landing at Pathfinder. Both military generals had cell phones pressed to their faces and ears, probably reporting to the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., who would already be, effectively, in charge of the country, but in a civilian role. That leadership role is to save human lives to the best of our ability. It has nothing to do with war, but everything to do with immediate control, not only of people and the way we live and behave, but of the prevailing environment including atmosphere, temperature, wind, weather anomalies, and the flow and weight of radiation fallout.
End of Chapter 3 (unedited draft)
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A huge lesson could and should be learned by the rest of us from Germany’s decision to do away with nuclear energy entirely. The graph in the abbreviated story below tells it all. Of course our major problem is weaning ourselves from carbon-based fossil fuels because of corporate greed and the associated cost of doing away with long-ago amortized and paid for buildings, facilities, equipment and the related infrastructure of drilling and mining.
It has nothing to do do with our need for anything related to nuclear power, its unnecessary growth, nor its tiny affect on CO2’s global warming and climate change. America, you are being lied to by our government and the propaganda of the industry which should have long ago been dead and buried. ~llaw
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Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back
The past year has seen record renewable power production nationwide.
National polls underscore the Teutonic aversion to nuclear. Even in 2022, at the height of the recent energy crisis, a survey found that 52 percent opposed constructing new reactors, though 78 percent supported a temporary extension of existing plants until summer 2023. The three-way Social Democratic-Green-Liberal coalition government ultimately compromised on mid-April 2023.
Today, 51.6 percent of Germans believe this was premature. However, a further deferral was deemed politically unfeasible given the trenchant anti-nuclearism of the Greens and sizeable cross sections of the population.
Despite some public protestations to the contrary (the main opposition CDU party declared in January that Germany “cannot do without the nuclear power option at present”), in private, few political leaders think the country will, or even realistically can, reverse course.
As an industry insider told me, talk of reintroducing nuclear to Germany is “delusional” because investors were “burnt … too many times” in the past and now “would rather put their money into safer investments.” Moreover, “it would take decades to build new [nuclear] power stations” and electricity is no longer the sector of concern, given the rapid buildout of renewables, with attention having shifted to heating and transport.
Enlarge / German nuclear power (purple) has largely been replaced by renewables (yellow), not coal (black and brown).
Predictions that the nuclear exit would leave Germany forced to use more coal and facing rising prices and supply problems, meanwhile, have not transpired. In March 2023—the month before the phaseout—the distribution of German electricity generation was 53 percent renewable, 25 percent coal, 17 percent gas, and 5 percent nuclear. In March 2024, it was 60 percent renewable, 24 percent coal, and 16 percent gas.
Overall, the past year has seen record renewable power production nationwide, a 60-year low in coal use, sizeable emissions cuts, and decreasing energy prices.
The country’s energy sector, it seems, has already moved on. In the words of one industry observer: “Once you switch off these nuclear power stations, they’re out.” And there’s no easy way back.
For better or worse, this technology—in its present form at least—is dead in the water here. For many Germans, it will not be missed.
Trevelyan Wing, Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics and Centre Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), University of Cambridge. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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I have never watched this movie (see the Vox story below), but I see from the nuclear media news that it’s running on Amazon Prime. So, I thought I might try to find time to watch it over the weekend. How about you? It could be a break from reality, or it could add to the dank reality of dystopia lurking in our everyday lives. Either way, it should provide us with the desire to find out more about “All Things Nuclear” in our daily lives. You can learn a lot from a this nightly Post that includes 5 categories of nuclear media (see below), plus a bonus category for the ‘Yellowstone Caldera’ coverage every day of the week with occasional highlights, opinions, and comments from this Blog, posted every evening for your personal ‘all things nuclear’ education. ~llaw
And while Fallout is a fictional depiction of nuclear war that’s heavy on the sci-fi, nuclear warfare itself is not off the table in reality. There …
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The major news for today is about Russia vetoing the UN resolution to prevent use of nuclear arms in outer space. My response is, have we not already caused enough damage to our worldly environment that nuclear weapons in outer space is beyond the concept of intelligent humanity, and perhaps the meaning of the word “humanity” itself? Of course ‘all things nuclear’ should be considered ‘inhumane’.
But, hence my Post cover image this evening, my personal favorite from today’s news is more on the satirical or light side about the creatures that might live alongside us if a few of us were to somehow survive a nuclear war . . .
Next, anyone who cares should be advised that I am moving my bi-weekly chapter post of my in progress of drafting my new novel “El Nuclear Diablo” to Sunday evenings rather than the current schedule of Thursday. As I pointed out last night, one of the reasons is that Sundays nuclear news is generally less reading and evaluating for me, which makes Posting of this blog somewhat less time-consuming for me personally, and possibly for you, the reader who may also be in a more relaxed mood to read a bit of fiction on a Sunday rather than my story being posted in between two workdays.
So you can expect to see the next chapter of the draft version of “El Nuclear Diablo” this coming Sunday evening. The Post will remain on a bi-weekly basis. My hope is that the ‘story’ will help you understand and gain more beneficial knowledge about what ‘could happen, and how it happened’ in an actual post-nuclear world than what everyday nuclear news stories have to offer. ~llaw
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First, I will be moving the online creation of my in-progress novel “El Nuclear Diablo” from Thursdays to Sundays, primarily because there is less nuclear media coverage on Sundays, which allows me to spend more of the day on that project rather than reading the news and deciding what issues and commentary to feature. I will explain in more detail, and as a reminder, about the posting change, including my hope that the novel will develop more readership on a leisurely Sunday evening than on a busy Thursday facing the end of a work-week the following day. ~llaw
Second, the following post is in fairness to an understanding that at least some elements of the nuclear industry who are aware that they need to achieve what they profess to believe they can do. I can unequivocally state, though, that, in my opinion, based on my knowledge of the industry, they are hoping against hope and like the other non-renewable power and the dreaded CO2 producing industries at the fossil fuel level, they will never come close to achieving the standards and goals they have set, and in fact will never uphold those standards because they already know they are unachievable. ~llaw
World Nuclear News (as seen through the eyes of the nuclear industry) . . .
Industry needs to translate nuclear ambitions into reality, panel says
24 April 2024
The industry must seize the opportunities arising from a global change in the perception of nuclear energy, a panel session agreed during a side event at the World Energy Congress 2024. However, wide-scale collaboration is needed to ensure the industry can meet the expected growth in demand for nuclear power technology.
The sessions – Alliance for nuclear: Accelerating to reach net-zero by 2050 – was organised by EDF and World Energy Council France on the sidelines of the World Energy Congress, being held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
“We are seeing a very important sea-change in the way nuclear energy is being perceived at a global level,” said World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León. “Countries that perhaps a few years ago were not considering nuclear energy, they definitely are taking a second look at it. Why? Well, firstly, because many of these countries actually got their calculators out and realised that there’s just simply no other way to meet their Paris Agreement goals in a way that is cost-effective and, very importantly, equitable. So that’s put nuclear energy back on the map and, of course, issues such as energy security and energy independence are also very important.”
She added that “in many countries, the average person has become very pragmatic” and recognises “nuclear as an opportunity to have abundant, affordable, 24/7 energy. So, we’ve seen this in many countries in Europe, in North America, Southeast Asia, Africa, that they are looking at nuclear as a real option now”.
Wei Huang, Director of the Division of Energy Planning, Information and Knowledge Management at the International Atomic Energy Agency, said there was “very good momentum” created by pledges made during COP28, which not only talked about tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency by 2030, but also tripling nuclear capacity.
“I think that the message is very clear … there has been a sea-change in the global prospective of nuclear, so that is very good message to the world,” he said. “However, each stakeholder needs to do their part to transfer their expectation and ambition into reality.”
Bilbao y León said the nuclear industry was working with governments “to actually deliver on all these very big ambitions … we have a number of countries that are putting together energy policies that recognise the very important role of nuclear. Now the next step is to translate those energy policies into industrial policies”.
“Europe has this common problem to solve, the trilemma,” said Stefano Monti, European Nuclear Society president. “We want stable energy prices. We want to have a large amount of clean energy. We want decarbonisation. We want to have security of energy supply. But still we don’t have a common solution … there are 12 countries who signed the nuclear alliance. There are other countries that are observers. And there are others that think they can make this energy transition also relying only on renewables.”
Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero, for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, noted that the nuclear alliance, which comprises almost half of the EU member states, is calling for greater European support for nuclear. “This nuclear alliance is making a lot of efforts and moving the lines, the traditional lines in Brussels over, for example, the next Multiannual Financial Framework, and what the role of the European Investment Bank is in funding and financing nuclear. I’m sure that this will be a part of the results for the next election in June.”
In response to being asked what should be done in Europe to enable an expansion of nuclear energy, EDF CEO Luc Remont said: “We certainly have challenges to be back at the level of construction that we need for the future, but we can rely on very serious competences that have been built over the decades to serve the number of countries who are already operating in nuclear … where we have been likely behind over the last two decades is that we have not built new reactors at the right pace. And that’s what makes a difference, for example, between Europe and China.
“So, we need to scale this. We will be back at scale if we are going steadily into a pace where we need to serve the countries that will decide to go into new build. We will need to sustain that for many, many years and not go through cycles of heavy construction, then nothing, which is what is destroying potentially our supply chain. And I’m sure this applies to all the regions of the world.”
Monti called for more European investment in nuclear R&D. “We have to restart thinking that in order to have the right system at the right moment, we have to invest in R&D. Fast reactors mean advanced fuels need to be developed, tested, qualified and licensed. It means new innovative materials to be used in the fast reactor. You have to test and qualify the material under a fast spectrum. In all the Western countries, we don’t have a material test reactor with a fast spectrum.” That’s something that is needed “and very soon if we really want to compete with the rest of the world”.
He said another priority was the workforce. “If we have good people, we can do everything. And that for Europe … means really creating a European energy market and European cooperation in nuclear. We really need to join our efforts and our capabilities if we want to deliver and be competitive in the international market.”
Remont ended the session by saying “having dynamism and innovation and the number of start-ups in the nuclear industry is great news. Yes, nuclear has been considered for some time as a dinosaur … but having so much diversity of ideas that are touching the process, the way you build it, the scale, the business model, that’s great news for our industry. And I hope that many of these projects will find their way because I think this is the best way for us, as an industry, to be moving faster than expected.”
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Sitting here this afternoon, reading today’s World Nuclear News (below), wondering what country would be the first to launch the 1st nuclear armed ICBM on what country, and when. Someone should start a lottery. They could rake in the $billions and never have to pay the winner, keeping all that suddenly useless cash for themselves.
What would they do with all that cash? There would be no way to pay the winner(s) and also no place to spend it. Money would immediately become worthless in an all-out nuclear WWIII. The only things of value would be a few of the items we individually already possessed and they would be only of temporary value for those of us, if any, who might survive long enough to care . . .
But, if I were a betting man, ignorant enough to buy such a lottery ticket, I would have to make up my mind among these four countries: Russia, North Korea, China, and the United States of America, doubtful that any other nuclear nations would even consider it. My choice might surprise you, but, all things considered, I would have to choose the USA. Our ICBM target would be Moscow, Russia, and it would be only a single missile, because two would be one too many to stop retaliation, not only from Russia itself, but from all other nuclear armed countries as well.
It is not that the USA is more treacherous or evil than say, Russia or North Korea, but my decision has to do with who we Americans are, how we think, and what we believe we have to lose, plus the rationality that that the first attack might be the last — especially if it comes from the USA. If any other country, like, say, Russia or North Korea, attacks the USA first, we would not hesitate to retaliate, and a 2nd ICBM would bring on all the others from every nuclear nation. ~llaw
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