New Nukes, New Bombers, British Black Ops and Dirty Bombs: WW3 Update

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In the dark shadows, in thewhite cold. Fearlessly we search for knowledge
new and old. We drink thestrong spirits and read the ancient tones.
The order of the Abercast. Weare the brave and the board, the

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court history Conspiracy. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Abercast. I'm your

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host, John Towers, and tonightwe're going to be checking back in on
the situation of World War three.Before you get start, I just like
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or your laptop case, whatever thefuck. Um. I got my visul
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with my favorite drink these days,my weapon of mass distraction, the jin

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Jihad. So let's give this partystart head. Oh maybe that one a
little rough. So, uh,We're gonna start out in Afghanistan because I
believe these two stories are somewhat linked. Uh. So this is the Hill

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Watchdog points to dire conditions in Afghanistan, a mid US agencies resistance to oversight.
This is a few days ago thereby a lady by the name of
Rebecca Beach. Government watchdog is offeringa grim update on the light on life

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in Afghanistan since the US withdrawal,while chastising American agencies for rebuffing its attempts
to review their efforts in the countrysince the Taliban takeover. Remember, Joe
Biden says, hey, are youtwo a guys out there. You're not
going to be taken on the government, not with your AAR fifteens in your

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AK forty sevens. You need nuclearweapons and jet fighters. The Taliban did
not need that to beat Joe.The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction,
which has been reviewing multiple agencies workin the troubled nation for over a decade,
said early Wednesday, it has neverfaked to this level of resistance to

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its oversight duties. One of thereasons I think this is linked with what's
going on with Russia and Ukraine isall the aid we're sending to Ukraine and
we're not. No one is overciting it there. No accountants are traveling
to Ukraine with this money to findout what's going on with it. I

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facetiously said a couple episodes again andwas money LAUNDERINGLA maybe not so fastiously Fastiously,
CIGAR, which is again the SpecialInspector General for Afghanist stand Reconstruction for
the first time in its history,is unable this quarter to provide Congress and

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the American people with a full accountingof this US government spending due to the
non cooperation of several US government agencies, the agency wrote in its quarterly report
to Congress. The United States Agencyfor International Development, the us AID,
administers the majority of US government spendingfor Afghanistan, and the Treasury Department refused

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to cooperate with CIGAR in any capacity. While the State Department was selective in
the information it provided pursue it toCigars audit and quarterly data requests, sharing
high level funding data but not detailsof agency supported programs in Afghanistan. Some
agencies rebuffed the Inspector General multiple times. The Hill previously reported in October email

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indicating that USAID and the State Departmenthad both quote largely declined unquote to respond
to requests for information following a Junenotice to lawmakers from CIGAR. The US
has provided more than a billion dollarsin aid to the people of Afghanistan,

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sensorymoving its troops from the country.Last year. While Cigar struggled to fully
assess the US government's role in apost withdrawal Afghanistan, it was able to
pull together a blique assessment of conditionsin the country since the US exit.
So here, I feel like Ijust need to add a little bit of

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context to my personal point of viewon this. My personal point of view
is we should not have been inAfghanistan for as long as we were.
I believe pulling out of Afghanistan wasa right move. I believe the way
that we pulled out of Afghanistan couldhave been planned better by my cat Edgar,

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who is not known for his intelligence, or my old combat boot could
have figured out a better way tohave done it. And yeah, so
I'm not My critique on what happenedis not based on my belief that we

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should still be there, or peopleshould still Americans should still be there.
That's not what it's about, youknow. And like I said, we're
starting off here in Afghanistan with thisinability, this inability to provide accountability for
money, because I believe the samething is going on in Ukraine. So

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back to it. Enough babbling.A US backed effort to promote a free
press has largely evaporated under the Talibanrule. Huh you don't wow? Uh
Who I wonder if you could havepredicted as most of the progress made in
the quality of life for women,whether an education, healthcare, or the

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economy. The watchdog reports the Talibanhas essentially wiped out thirty years of developments,
including that current conditions are similar tothose under the Taliban. In the
nineteen ninety, Cigar found that womenand girls face significant risks, including reduced
access to education, healthcare, lossof employment, including the ability to become

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economically or otherwise independent. It heightenedpersonal safety and security risks on top of
having to wear drapes. UNITE estimatesthat more than three million girls who previously
attended secondary school no longer do sofollowing a ban on education for women past
the elementary school level. It's amove the international agency estimates will cost the

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Afghan economy up to five point fourbillion dollars in lifetime earning potential. I
figured coincides with a broader economic collapsesince the US exit. The entire country
is facing an intense food insecurity,with nearly half resorting to skipping some meals.
More than eighteen million people face lifethreatening of levels of hunger, including

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six million facing near famine conditions.Check out the feature topic like on abercast
dot com. We did. Itwas almost in real time. I'm trying
to remember what the name of theepisode was. I think it was called
nine to eleven. In context,it was like part four, maybe the

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postmortem of anti war on Terror somethinglike that. More than half of the
country is needed is in need ofhumanitarian assistance, with some six hundred million
needed in just the next few monthsto prepare for winter by upgrading shelters and
giving out clues and blankets. Sincethe withdrawal, Afghanistan has seen forty percent

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of its media out outlets close tolost sixty percent of its journalists according to
data from Reporters Without Borders. SinceAugust twenty twenty one, the Afghan media
sector has mostly collapsed under the weightof the Talibans restrictions and censorship. Cigar
Road according or, concluding that withoutlong term institutional support the independent journe inside

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and outside the country, Afghanistans mediummay not be able to withstand the Taliban's
efforts to totally control the flow ofinformation about the country. Okay, so
we're gonna put this in the rearview mirror and get to Ukraine and Russia.
So a couple episodes ago, wewere talking about the Russian nuclear doctrine

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escalate to de escalate, and wekind of kind of stopped in the middle
of the episode to sort of ponderon the meaning of attacks and weapons of
mass destruction and asymmetrical warfare and howthose terms have subtle gradations. And so

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we're gonna talk about this article.List Trust and allegedly sent a message saying,
quote it is done unquote to blinkin after Nordstream sabotage. So this
Liz Trust. Unless you're watching thissituation, it's easy to have missed it
because it only took like six weeksfor this person, this Liz Trust,
to have been elected in and thenquitting her position as Prime Minister of the

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UK. So here's we're going tothe or the article. You know,
we've been talking about this and thisWorld War three episodes too, like this
um ambiguity regarding what happened to thisnord Stream pipeline moments after the nord Stream
pipelines were destroyed by what the internationalcommunity community is calling quote sabotage. Then

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United Kingdom Prime Minister liszt Trust allegedlysent a message to the United States Secretary
of State Anthony blinkoln that said quoteit is done unquote. Russian Foreign Ministry
spokesperson Maria's the Corohova demanded answers regardingthe mysterious quote it is the iPhone message

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allegedly sent by UK's prime minister.Then the Prime Minister Lis Trust to the
US Secretary of State moments after thesabotage attacks against the Nordstream network to be
honest, I don't care who gotthis information and how I am interested in
London's answer to the following question,did then Prime Minister Lis Trust of Britain

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send a message to US Secretary ofState Anthony Blinkin immediately after the Nordstream gas
pipeline was blown up with the wordsquote it is done unquote, Zacharahova asked
in a telegram post on Tuesday,reports Sputnik. The general consensus has been
that the US and or the UKwere involved in the destruction of the pipelines.

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First images of the blown up Nordstreamreveals fifty meter long section of missing
pipeline. There's a post with atweet from someone called Kim dot com blue

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checkmark verified that says, how doRussian How do the Russians know that the
UK blew up the north Stream?They said the North Stream pipeline in partnership
with the US, because Liz Trustused your iPhone to send a message to
Sec. Blincoln saying it's done aminute after the pipeline blew up and before

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any anybody else knew. iCloud adminaccess rocks. Someone needs to get Kim
dot com on the phone and figureout what the foot, their sheep,
whatever is talking about. I'm underThe US Defense National Security Outlet reported that
among the information suspected to have beenleaked from trust Trust's hacked cell phone was

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the aforementioned text message between the nowformer UK leader and the top US diplomat.
It isn't immediately clear whether Trust sentthis message using the phone that was
hacked, or if she used adifferent phone. A series of explosions knocked
out three or four strings of thenordstream network on September twenty sixth of this

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year. Western officials and mainstream media. Mainstream media immediately began claiming without evidence
that Russia has blown up its owntwenty billion dollar pipeline. The Kremlin accused
the West of an unprecedented act ofstate terrorism involving the nord Stream, but
did not name any specific states,with Putin only hinting at involvement by the

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Anglo Saxons, which is noted thatis typically a reference to the Brits and
the Americans in Russian usage. Aftera month long investigation, the Military Minister
of Defense revealed Sunday that Britain's RoyalNavy took part in playing planning and organizing
and carrying out the nord Stream attack, adding to the problem of trust of

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trust. The Swedish government has refusedto share its investigation results with Russia,
the owner of the nord Stream pipeline. The cover up is obvious, so
here we go just one step closer. The next is the US Air Force

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to deploy nuclear capable B fifty twobombers to Australia as tensions with China grow.
United States is preparing to deploy upto six nuclear capable B fifty two's
ten roof rusted bombers to north tonorthern Australia. A provocative move. Experts

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say that has aimed squarely at China. We can't get any Flat Earth people
on the phone to comment. Aninvestigation by Four Corners can reveal Washington is
planning to build dedicated facilities for thegigantic aircraft at Tindall Air Force Base south

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of Darwin. The US has drawnup detailed plants for what it's called Squadron
Operations Facility to use for the NorthernTerritory dry season, and adjoining maintenance center
and parking area for the six Bfifty twos, a rockalypsta Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Do. BeccaWasser from the Center of North American Security

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says putting B fifty twos in NorthernAustralia is a warning to China as fears
grow Beijing is preparing for an assaulton Taiwan. Having bombers that could range
and potentially attack mainland China could bevery important in sending a signal to China
that any of its actions over Taiwancould also expand further, she says.

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But the bombers are part of amarch much larger upgrade of defense assets across
Northern Australia, including the major expansionof the Pine Gap intelligence space, which
would play a vital role in conflictwith Beijing. The B fifty twos have
been the backbone of the US AirForce for more than sixty years, with

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the capability to deliver long range strikesof both nuclear and conventional weapons. The
US documents say that the facilities willbe used for deployed B fifty two squadrons.
The ability to deploy US US AirForce bombers to Australia sends a strong
message to adversaries about the ability toproject lethal air power. The US Air

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Force told Four Corners asked when theB fifty twos would begin their deployment at
tindals Aralia's Department of Defense declined tocomment, Sorry, we can't give that
all this information out the tip ofthe spear. Some worrey. Having B
fifty twos rotating through Tendal each yearlocks Australia into joining the US in any

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conflict against China. It's a greatexpansion of Australian commitment into the United States
war plan with China, says RichardTanter, a senior research advocate at the
Nautilus Institute and long time anti nuclearactivists. It's assigned to the Chinese that
we are willing to be the tipof the spear. Mister Tanter sees the

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planned deployment of the bombers as moresignificant than the rotation of US marines through
Darwin each year. It's very hardto think of a more open commitment than
we can make a more open signalto the Chinese that we are going along
with American planning for a war withChina, mister Tanter says. Miss Wasser

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says the growing importance of the NorthernAustralia to the US makes Darwin and tendal
targets in any war with China,China, China. Her work includes running
war game exercises to examine how apotential conflict might unfold, probably pretty disastrously,
she says. In the war gamescenarios where Australia either joined the fight

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or allowed Washington to use bases inthe top end, it would be very
much put a bullseye on Australia.Ultimately, these attacks were not successful because
of the long range required and becauseChina had already expanded most of its capable
long range missiles earlier in the game. But who's to say that in the

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future, China might have more advancedmissile capability that would be better suited to
potentially attacking Australia. China's growing confidenceabout Taiwan invasion. In recent months,
US war planners and analysis have broughtforward estimates of when Beijing may look to

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take Taiwan and the time frame forthe assault on Taiwan. It would put
at twenty twenty five or twenty twentyseven, says the defense academic orisons Skylar
Maestro from Stanford University. This islargely a dependent on when I think the
Chinese leadership, in particular President JijingPing, can be confident that his military

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could do it. I think thatthat is not even the biggest I don't
think that's even the biggest criteria.That's not even the biggest part of the
formula. It's what we're gonna dowhen he does it. That's what he's
paying attention to. In my humbleopinion, I'm no Henry Kissinger, but

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she says there's a growing confidence withthe People's Liberation Army that it could successfully
invade Taiwan for fifteen years. Iwould ask the Chinese military if they could
do this invading Taiwan and the answerwas no. So the fact that for
the first time at the end oftwenty twenty they're starting to say yes,
I think that's a significant message thatwe should be paying attention to. She

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says. The US has big plansfor Australia, big plans. You know
what that means, Australia, Youshould run, should get the fuck out
of there. These growing tensions withChina have made Northern Australia a crucial defense
hub for the US, which hascommitted to sending more than a billion dollars
upgrading its military assets across the topend. In Tiandol, Air Force base

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expansion includes a parking area that canaccommodate six B fifty twos forecast and to
cost up to US one hundred milliondollars. The US Air Force says that
the parking lot will be finished inlate twenty twenty six. The r a
f ability to host US United StatesAir Force bombers as well as train alongside

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them, demonstrates how integrated the twoof our air forces are. In April,
the US Department of Defense budgeted fourteenpoint four million US dollars or two
twenty two point five million for theSquadron Operations and Maintenance Facility and TINDAL the

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squadron operations facilities required to support strategicoperations and to run multiple fifteen day training
exercises during the Northern Territory dry seasonfor deployed B fifty two squadrons. US
documents say the US is also planningto build its own jet fuel storage tanks.

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Do you'll have no fuel to putin them, but we can store
it and an ammunition bunker at thesite. The North of Australia in the
new geopolitical environment has suddenly become astrategically much more important, if not crucial,
for the US, says Paul Dibb, a former senior official at the
Defense the Department of Defense in Canberra. The great presence of the US forces

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in Australia was hinted at during lastyear's An You Will Ministerial meeting known as
AUSMAN. Under so called Enhanced AirCooperation, it was agreed that there would
be a rotation deployment of US aircraftof all types in Australia. Today,
we endorse major Force Posture initiative andwill expand the access in presence in Australia.

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The US Secretary of Defense, LloydAustin, has said so saith Lloyd
Austin, there was no mention ofrotating B fifty twos through Tyndall, although
there has been hints in recent years. Equally important of the growing US presence
in northern Australia is the instruction ofeleven giant fuel storage tanks and Darwin.

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Some of these fuel reserves were previouslylocated at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, but
is now being dispersed across the region. Without a kind of insurance of jet
fuel in the country, US wouldsimply wouldn't be able to treat Australia as

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a location from which I can stagemilitary exercises and operations with confidence, since,
says Ashley Townsend from the Carnegie Endowmentfor International Peace. Mister Townsend says
the B fifty twos at Tyndale arejust the start. We will see much
greater numbers of US military personnel forwardforward located in Australia. That will include

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personnel from all three services, Navy, Air Force, in the Army,
well where's the fucking Space Force,as well as the Marines in Darwin,
which are likely to be expanded.He says the Osman communic Hay that was
flagged as part of efforts to advanceforced posture cooperation to deter our adversaries.

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So, while both governments have signaledthe growing US military presence in Australia,
the expansion of one site is veiledin secrecy. There has been very little
said about Pine Gap, the jointUS Australian spy base near Alice Springs,
is undergoing a major upgrade. Accordingto Richard Tanter. He spends months pouring

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over satellite images of Pine Gap andestimates the number of giant antennas has grown
by more than a third over thepast seven years. This is at a
time when Australian Parliament has been informedof none of this. No statements by
ministers, no questions by politicians,he says. Mister Tanter says Pine GAP's

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powerful ears and eyes are now heavilyfocused on China. The searching for Chinese
missile sites, the searching for Chinesecommand sites in a preparatory way, is
absolutely on high priority at pine Gapnow. He says this indicates that extraordinary

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importance and that the increasing importance tothe US at the time of potential war
with China the conflict broke out betweenthe US and China, Tanter says pine
Gap would play a hugely significant role, particularly around missiles and defense systems.
Pine Gap would be detecting the launchof the missiles. It would be queuing

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US missile defense systems to find thatmissile in mid air and attack it with
their own missiles. He says,Pine Gap pine gaps geolocation technology would then
be used to find and destroy themissile launch sites. Paul Dibb, at
a high level of security clearance atpine Gap for thirty years, says it

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is the most potent intelligence collection facilitythat America has outside the US. Mister
Dibbs put out that put says thisput pine Gap on targeting lists for the
former Soviet Union during the Cold War, and that it would be on the
same list for China if any conflictwith the US. It looked as though

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this crisis was going nuclear, Chinamay want to take out pine Gap as
being the ears and eyes of America'scapability. He says, all right,
here we go to the politico.The US speeds up plans to store upgraded

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nukes in Europe. The fielding ofan improved gravity bomb has been moved up
to this December. As Vladimir Putinthreatens the region, the United States has
accelerated the fielding of more accurate versionof its mainstay nuclear bomb to NATO bases
across Europe. According to a USdiplomatic cable and two people familiar with the

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issue, the arrival of the upgradedB sixty one twelve air dropped air dropped
gravity bomb, originally slated for nextspring, is now planned for December.
US officials told NATO allies during aclosed door meeting in Brussels this month.
The cable reveals the move, whichinvolves replacing older weapons with newer versions at

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various storage facilities in Europe for potentialuse by US and Allied bombers and fighter
jets, come amidst heightened tension overRussia's threat to use a nuclear weapon in
Ukraine and growing concerns that the Westneeds to do more to deter Moscow from

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crossing that line. The upgrades tothe B sixty one program have been openly
discussed in budget documents and public statementsfor years. The Pentagon officials have said
the upgrades are necessary to ensure thestockpile is modernized and safe. Asked for
comment, Pentagon spokesman Brigade Year GeneralPatrick Ryder responded the email that we aren't

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going to discuss details of our nucleararsenal. Modernized modernization of US B six
one nuclear weapons have been underway foryears and plans plans to safely and responsibly
swap out older weapons for the upgradedB six one Dash twelve versions are part

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of a long plan and scheduled modernizationeffort. It is in no way linked
to current events in Ukraine has notstepped it up in any way. The
arrival date came as a surprise tosome long time observers who fear it could
further stoke and already danger situation inEurope. The announcement is at the meeting

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in Brussels, came days before NATOkicked off its annual nuclear exercise known as
Steadfast Noon. The two week exerciseand Sunday and includes some seventy aircraft,
and on Wednesday, Russia held anuclear exercise that is a defense chief described
as simulating a massive nuclear strike andretaliation for nuclear attack on Russia. According

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to the Kremlin, this is alldanger. It would be odd to rush
it in, says hands Christian Christensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at
the Federation of America's Scientists, whohas been closely tracking this program. They've
been saying, we don't risk onto this situation with nuclear weapons. I

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don't think they want to go downthat one. The message behind sending the
sending the first bombs in December maybe directed more at European allies that feel
especially vulnerable to Moscow. My guessis that it's aimed more towards NATO than
Russia, said Tom Koalaina, thedirector of Policy at Plowshares Fund, a

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disarmament group. There are older bsixteens already there. The Russians know that
they work just fine. The newones will be newer, all right,
genius, but it's not really thatmuch of a difference. But it may
be a way to assure the allieswhen they are feeling particularly threatened by Russia.
To people familiar with the issue ofthe upcoming shipment to Europe confirmed and

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accelerated time frame reported by the DiplomaticCable, they asked not to be named
due to the sensitivity of the issue. The cable, which has not previously
been made public and was written tobe distributed throughout the Pentagon and State Department
to give policymakers a rundown of whatwas discussed among defense ministers at the NATO

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meeting. Clearly indicates that the Alliesare jittery. The document states that during
the meeting, fifteen NATO allies raisedconcerns that the Alliance must not given to
Putin's nuclear blackmail given the rising volumeand scales of Russia's nuclear rhetoric. A

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subset of Allies requested continue continued consultationsat NATO to ensure continued readiness and consistent
messaging the cable ads. Yet,Kalina has also warned that any nuclear related
moves, however modest they might be, could have unintended did consequences. It

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could be esculatory, he says,huh, we'll see. He says,
it could be escalatory. The Bsixty one is a family in nuclear bombs,
first developed in the early nineteen sixtiesand initially demonstrated an underground nuclear tests

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in Nevada. A dozen versions havebeen developed over the decades, and most
of them have since been retired.The ten billion dollars B sixty one twelve
life extension program is managed by theDepartment of Energy and is meant to replace
several earlier versions, including about onehundred bombs stored at air bases in Germany,

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Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands andTurkey. The upgrades are all in
the non nuclear aspects of the unguidedbombs design and involved removing a parachute and
installing a new tail kit and otherimprovements for significantly greater accuracy. Christensen said.
The new version is also designed sothat the US and Allied bomber planes

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and fighter aircraft, including B twosand B twenty one bombers and F fifteen
sixteens and F thirty fives and Torminadofighter jets, are all able to carry
the weapon, as opposed to severalolder versions of the B sixty one that
have been in storage for years.The warhead itself is one of the most

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versatile in the US arsenal because itis its explosive power can be dialed up
or down depending on the target,making it either low or medium yield weapon.
The new type timeline for arrival isa sign that the Pentagon is determined
that the weapon is ready sooner thanplaying Christensen said, pointed out that the

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DoD Inspector General was expected to competecomplete a review of the weapons performance ahead
of training for air crews either latethis year or early next year. The
Air Force conducted flight tests on anew bomb design on the F thirty five
A in October twenty twenty one,and certified it on F fifteen E and

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twenty twenty, but the Pentagon reportedin February that it planned to complete the
nuclear design certification of the B sixtyone twelve with the F thirty five A
before January twenty twenty three, afterwhich the US Air Forces in Europe we'll
all start certification training. I thoughtthose two things were going to happen before

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you saw the physical arrival, Kristensensaid. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also told
NATO allies in Brussels this month thatthe administration's long waited nuclear posture review,
which could be released in the comingdays, would maintain Washington's decades long nuclear

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declaratory policy of calculated ambiguity. TheCables reported. This is a shift from
President Joe Biden's comments during twenty twentyone or sorry twenty twenty presidential campaign in
which he said he would consider changingUS policy so to state that the sole

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purpose of atomic weapons is to detera nuclear attack against America or its allies,
a change that nuclear disarmament groups hadpushed for. The administration has since
walked those comments back, just likeevery other comment he makes, but Austin.
Austin's assurance that European allies that theUS Nuclear Declarative policy will remain unchanged

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comes as capitals on the continent arelooking for a steady hand in Washington to
confront the nuclear armed Russia and China. James Acton, co director of the
Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie andAliment for International Peace, said Biden's sole
purpose comments during the campaign rippled acrossEurope and there was a big campaign by

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US allies to convince him not todo so, and that campaign was successful.
During the Brussels meeting, I thinkit's hilarious that we just we just
assume that he actually means what hesays. I don't think he means I
don't think he knows what he's talkingabout at all at any point in time.

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During the Brussels meeting, Austin alsoinformed allies that the review would support
the full modernization of the US nucleartriad, while returning or sorry, while
retiring the B eighty three gravity bomband ending the nuclear sea launched cruise missile's
program started by the Trump administration.Orange Man bad but lawmakers opposed halting the

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cruise missile program. We will likelycontinue funding it in upcoming defense policy legislation.
Okay, onto the Washington Examiner JohnSweet. The US must be ready

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for Putin's dirty distractions. While theWest continues to fixate on Russia's claim that
Ukraine is preparing to detonate a socalled dirty bomb, Russia maybe preparing to
launch a second invasion from Belarus toKiev. Russian President Putin is feeling the
pressure in Moscow. He needs toalter the strategic direction of the war in

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Russia's favor. Still, Russian allegationsof a Ukrainian dirty bomb plot could simply
be pretext for puptive strike. Putinhas been busy trying to co opt Bella
Bela Russian President Alexander Lushenko to joinhis war. At the same time,
Russian Russia's utilizing Iranian Kama Kazi drones. That sounds awesome to strike Ukraine's energy

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infrastructure and residential areas. The newWorld order will compensate for Russia's losses in
Ukraine war. Will Belarus come toPutin's rescue. Leshenko has been complicit in
Putin's special military operation since it's onset. He has allowed Russia to gain

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forces to stage in Belarus and permittedballistic missile launches against Ukraine. So let's
just back up here, because wehave another I have another article regarding another
questionable state helping Russia US in NorthKorea US North Korea covertly supplying artillery shells

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to Russia for Ukraine War. NorthKorea has been secretly supplying Russia with significant
number of artillery shells to support itswar in Ukraine, the National Security Council
spokesperson John Kirby said at a pressbriefing Wednesday. Reuters reported driving the news,
North Korea is trying to make itappear as though they are being sent

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to countries in the Middle East orNorth Africa, Kirby added per ap.
Kirby did not offer estimates on howmuch munitions North Korea has sent, but
he insisted that the shipments were notgoing to change the course of the war
because of Western efforts to aid Ukraine. Our indication is that the dprk IS

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is covertly supplying and that we aregoing to monitor to see whether the shipments
are received per routers the big picture. The development comes nearly two months after
the US intelligence indicated that Russia wasbuying millions of rockets and artillery shells from
North Korea for its war in Ukraine. Russians reliance on other powers such as

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North Korea and Iran for supplies isindicative of the shortages it is facing and
maintaining. It's more in the Ukraine. Okay, one more, I think
I got one more here. RussiaRussian Army discussed when and how to use

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nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Dmitri Medvedevsaid in that Kiev's objectives threatening the existence
of Russia and so allows for theuse of nuclear weapons. So this is
a big right. This kind ofgoes to what we were talking about last

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time. Senior Russian military commander hasrecently discussed how and when the Kremlin would
use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine,New York Times report on Wednesday. According
to the report, Putin was notpart of the conversation. Depending on press
Secretary, Brigadier General Pat Rider saidon Tuesday that there were no indication indications

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that the Russian leader has made adecision at this time to employ nuclear weapons.
Also on Tuesday's Security Council of theRussian Federation, deputy chairman Dmitri Medvedev
said on telegram that key of hisobjectives to return all occupied territories to its
control, constituted an existential threat toRussia and would allow for the use of

(42:34):
nuclear weapons. According to The Times, intelligence reports about the nuclear weapons conversations
were shared with the US government inmid October. October twenty fifth, a
senior US official told The Times thatthere were new and troubling developments involving Russia's
nuclear arsenal, but did not provideadditional information dirty bombs and tactical nukes.

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The work came as Russia was claimingthat the Ukrainian forces were preparing to use
a dirty bomb or even a nuclearbomb. According to the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, a dirty bomb is atype of radiological dispersal device that combines conventional
explosives such as dynamite and radioactive materials. Most rdds would not release enough radiation

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to kill people or cause severe illness. The conventional explosive itself would be more
harmful to people than the radioactive material. A dirty bomb is not a weapon
of mass destruction. We've mentioned previouslythat that is not necessarily true, but

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a weapon of mass disruption, wherecontamination and anxiety are the major objectives.
Ukraine responded at the time and persistedthat the persistent Russian claims that Kieva planned
to detonate a dirty bomb made itappear as though Moscow itself planned to conduct

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a false flag operation, in thatthe Ukraine has never had any plans to
develop a dirty bomb. Tactical nuclearweapons are lower yield bombs that would allow
the destruction of enemies on the battlefield, rather than strategic weapons launched to cause
mass destruction to an enemy. Tacklenuclear weapons have never been used in combat

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