{"id":238925,"date":"2023-07-10T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=238925"},"modified":"2023-07-09T07:48:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T06:48:33","slug":"how-so-many-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/how-so-many-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"How So Many Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"

7 Jul 2023 – <\/em>Social psychosis is widespread.\u00a0 In the words of the British psychiatrist, R. D. Laing,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one\u2019s mind, is the condition of the normal man.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was not referring to raving, drooling, hitting-your-head-against-the-wall lunacy but a taken-for-granted acceptance of a world long teetering on the edge of nuclear extinction, to take the most extreme example, but surely only one of many.\u00a0 The insouciant acceptance and support of psychotic rulers who promote first-strike nuclear war is very common.\u00a0 First strike nuclear policy is United States policy.<\/p>\n

I recently wrote an article<\/a> about the dangers of the fourteen U.S. Trident submarines.\u00a0 These subs constantly cruise under the oceans carrying 3,360 nuclear warheads equivalent to 134,400 Hiroshima bombs.\u00a0 All are on first strike triggers.\u00a0 And of course these are supplemented by all the land and air based nukes.\u00a0 My point was not very complicated: now that the United States government has abrogated all nuclear weapons treaties and continues to escalate its war against Russia in Ukraine, we are closer to nuclear annihilation than ever before.<\/p>\n

This conclusion is shared by many esteemed thinkers such as the late Daniel Ellsberg who died \u00a0on June 16, 2023 and whose 2017 book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> makes clear that nuclear war, waged intentionally or by mistake or accident, is very possible. In the months before he died, he warned that this is now especially true with the situation in Ukraine and the U.S. provocations against China.<\/p>\n

The Grayzone\u2019s Max Blumenthal recently addressed<\/a> the UN Security Council on the danger of U.S. actions in Ukraine and asked:<\/p>\n

Will we see another Douma deception, but this time in Zaporizhzhia?<\/p>\n

Why are we doing this? Why are we tempting nuclear annihilation by flooding Ukraine with advanced weapons and sabotaging negotiations at every turn?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finian Cunningham has just raised<\/a> the specter of a thermonuclear catastrophe initiated by a U.S.\/Ukrainian false flag attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.<\/p>\n

So my article was in no way unusual, except for my concentration on the Trident submarines.<\/p>\n

When, against my better judgment, I read some commentators\u2019 responses to my piece at a few websites where my article was posted, I was taken aback when I read the following [all emphases are mine]:<\/p>\n