I enjoy following links in other blogs, and spend entirely too much time doing it. One link will lead to another, and another, and then another, and before I realize it, I've been sitting at the computer an hour and a half reading "stuff".
Once in a while some part of a link will give me a start, as in: "Now WHY isn't that in the MSM?" Here's one that I'm still trying to assimilate.
As I said yesterday, I usually read Unreal Nature, and this morning was no exception. I simply had to follow the links in this paragraph. The first took me here. That's interesting, and I because, I suppose, some part of the guy thing Ms Heyward mentions, I had to follow the other one too, and it led me here. Naturally, being curious arriving in a completely new world for me, I flipped through some of the photo sets on the right. Interesting stuff, some absolutely beautiful, some not so much. Eventually, I moved to the Shock and Awe set, where almost immediately I had this on my screen.
I became middling angry, for reasons I can't really explain. Read the board, the text, and then some of the comments below. I certainly wasn't aware that 84 Russian suitcase nukes are missing. I'm upset that there is no citation supporting that "fact." I'm also uneasy that information like that on the board isn't common knowledge. Do authorities think it would unnecessarily scare the public?
After the mild anger, I flipped through a multitude of questions and thoughts. We obviously live in dangerous times, but as I look outside at a wonderful North Carolina spring, as we plan a milestone birthday party, and as my wife is playing Mah Jong with friends, is it important that suitcase nukes are loose? Probably, but at a different level than the one I live in daily.
The ladies in my quilt group were discussing something similar at Monday's meeting. Somehow, I don't remember how, the subject of the alert status for terrorist actions in the U.S. came up. Someone said that it was orange, and that it had been orange for a long time. I was surprised that anyone even knew. I didn't.
Perhaps there will eventually be a suitcase nuke detonated somewhere. As a passing note, I initially wrote that sentence with "in the US" rather than somewhere. That bothers me almost as much as anything else about it. Why would it be worse detonated in the US than, for instance, the UK? Answer: It wouldn't. Anyway, eventually there may be one. Devastating its immediate location, the entire world's health, ecology, and especially politics, would change, if the 9/11 response is an indication. The chart indicates that such a detonation can be survived, but how different would life be?
Eighty-four. Somehow I find that number difficult to take in. Why, for instance, would Russia even have suitcase nukes? And if eighty-four are loose, how many are not? I'd like to know whether the US has any. Their existence indicates to me that Russia, and probably the US also, was, and may even still be, planning a very different type of war than when I worked in the JSTPS planning targets for our strategic nuclear arsenal.
It has been an interesting thought process, going from enjoying a blog, then photos, and leading to confronting an ugly reality I didn't know existed. Would I be better off if i had not followed the links? I don't think so. Knowledge is never wasted.
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