‘Who will blink first?’ Is nuclear war between Russia and the US possible? | RT
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Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
Americans are like two brothers who constantly bicker and fight. Just don't be the outsider who tries to get in between them!
That is not true. The negotiations were going on for some time. Japan's cities were being carpet bombed and one after another were being destroyed. Ike was dead against the use of Nukes.
yep and we scraped the earth where they landed and took the soil to America. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ive-site-49-years-after-palomares-plane-crash
Not enough of it apparently. From your article:
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Nearly 50 years after a US air force B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed in Palomares in south-east Spain, Washington has finally agreed to clean up the radioactive contamination that resulted from the crash.
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, and the Spanish foreign minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, signed an agreement in Madrid on Monday to clean up the site and “store the contaminated earth at a suitable location in the United States”.
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One might think that this would mean that it's now been done. However, Trump apparently didn't want to follow through with the Obama Administration's agreement:
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In November 2018, the daily newspaper El Pais reported, however, that the Trump administration did not feel bound by the deal made under the Obama administration.
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Source:
Palomares, Spain : Accident involving nuclear weapons | nuclear-risks.org
Based on an article just a few months ago, it looks like the problem is still ongoing:
Palomares clean-up not the responsibility of Spain’s Nuclear Safety Council | euroweeklynews.com
A U.S. air force veteran filed a class action lawsuit due to the U.S. government's failure to pay for his disabilities that resulted from his cleanup of the crash site:
Half a century after Palomares nuclear accident, a glimpse of justice | elpais.com
From the article:
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Skaar has a list of 40 veterans who were with him at the time and whom he hopes to include in a class action suit. Two of his acquaintances died of cancer five years after returning to the United States.
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Looks like Skaar finally got some justice this year for himself and other veterans involved in the cleanup:
56 Years Later, Palomares Veterans Win VA Recognition of Radiation Exposure | yale.edu
I just found out this wasn't the only time that the U.S. lost nukes as well:
7 times the military lost nukes — and 4 times it never found them | businessinsider.com
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NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
That's certainly an optimistic viewpoint.
Perhaps having been an only child, I don't know how to act like a brother.
Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
Yeah, to a degree it is. But look at the history: WWII - Truman personally was a bigot, but desegregated the Armed forces. Vietnam reflecting the changing times at home.