Putin Suggests Use of Nuclear Weapon and Former U.S. Official Reveals “Shuddering Crisis of Nuclear War”

On January 13, 2006, Hawaii welcomed Saturday morning with a beautiful sunrise. But at 8:07 am, the idyllic atmosphere changed. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency broadcast frightening news to its more than one million residents.

The threat of a ballistic missile is approaching Hawaii! Please find shelter nearby. This is not a drill! “

This is a true story described in “The Nuclear Button: The New Nuclear Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump,” published in July 2008 by Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co. The authors are William Perry, one of the “Four Wise Men of the” United States “who served as Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration and others, and Tom Colina, a policy director with expertise in defense issues. The book describes the dismay of the residents of Hawaii at the time as follows.

[People] panicked with fear and confusion. Parents opened manhole covers and pushed their crying children into sewers to protect them. (How long would it take for the missiles to land? Where will the bombs land? Does it carry a nuclear warhead? No one was sure.

Three unsettling elements of the shudder

In the end, there was no nuclear attack by missile. The broadcast that horrified the people of Hawaii was a false alarm by the Emergency Management Agency. However, the book points out that small mistakes, which are common among human beings, can trigger nuclear war. In fact, it warned of a potentially catastrophic situation.

President [Joon] may well have been misled by the false alarm, and he may well have decided to retaliate with nuclear weapons. (Omitted) Even if neither the US nor Russia intends to intentionally start a nuclear war, both sides have the launch option of a preemptive strike or a quick retaliation for a surprise attack.

But the quick option creates more problems than it solves. The threat today is not that Russia will intentionally attack the US, but that a mistake or false alarm will start a nuclear war, as happened in Hawaii.

The decision to launch a nuclear strike is the exclusive prerogative of the president. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested using nuclear missiles against Ukraine. The “nuclear button” could be pressed at any time if Mr. Putin hears incorrect information that prompts him to launch an attack. The book raises three elements of concern.

First, if the president acts on insufficient information, it could lead to a catastrophe: he would have to decide whether or not to launch within 10 minutes or less, which would not allow him to fully scrutinize the information. (Second, if the president) third, information from a technical miscalculation, such as a false alarm or cyber attack, could cause the president to launch a nuclear weapon. ..

The false alarms in the US were not limited to the Hawaii one mentioned at the beginning of this article; there was another tense situation on June 3, 1980. Continue quoting.

At 2:30 am in the dead of night, Zbigniew Brzezinski, assistant to the president for national security affairs, received a call from his military advisor, William Odom, telling him that a Soviet submarine had fired 220 missiles at the United States. Soviets had just invaded Afghanistan, and an actual attack was not surprising. [Omitted)

Whatever Brzezinski does, the United States will be wiped out. He decided not to wake up his wife; within half an hour, they would all be dead.

At this time, another warning system also reported that it did not detect the missile attack. The alarm turned out to be false. But if a presidential aide had reported it to then-President Carter, who had the right to launch nuclear missiles at a moment’s notice, he would have …….

There is no guarantee that humans will always make the right decision and that defense systems will never malfunction. A single wrong piece of information could put the human race on the brink of extinction.