THE END OF THE BEGINNING by Dan Plesch: US Forces Ready to Destroy 10,000 Targets in the Middle East in a Few Hours
"Speculation aside, we do know that Don Rumsfeld has placed US forces on alert. "We're now at the point where we are essentially on alert," lieutenant-colonel Bruce Carlson, commander of the 8th Air Force, said. "We have the capacity to plan and execute global strikes in half a day or less."
Re: US Forces Ready to Destroy 10,000 Targets in the Middle East in a Few Hours
I guess we must have slowed down. Back in my AF days and the "Cold War" was hot. We estimated that every major city on earth could be destroyed within 15 minutes if either we or Russia ever had a lunatic running the show.
Both of us had truly gigantic nuclear arsenals at that time and a large percentage of it was in the air 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Sadly, it looks like many of the worlds nations do have lunatics running the show today. Back in the early 60's there was a stupid little song making the rounds, it was called "Will We go Boom Today?" I will be happy when I can see the day, that song is an impossibility.
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