Thanks to decades' worth of cultural pressure on the international stage, most nations view the use of nuclear weapons in war as a reprehensible act. Today's nuclear nations, by and large, ascribe to a model of deterrence: Put simply, our nukes stop them from using their nukes. … [Read more...]
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Navy SEALs and backpack nukes: US special operators once carried the fury of the atom in a sack
Thanks to decades' worth of cultural pressure on the international stage, most nations view the use of nuclear weapons in war as a reprehensible act. Today's nuclear nations, by and large, ascribe to a model of deterrence: Put simply, our nukes stop them from using their nukes. … [Read more...]
The US government website that tells you how to survive everything from active shooters to inbound nukes
Our modern world certainly isn't short on threats -- from lone wolf terror attacks to state level threats like a nuclear North Korea to worry about on the global scale and good old-fashioned home invasions and murders to stress over on the local front, it can feel like there's … [Read more...]
The US government website that tells you how to survive everything from active shooters to inbound nukes
Our modern world certainly isn’t short on threats — from lone wolf terror attacks to state level threats like a nuclear North Korea to worry about on the global scale and good old-fashioned home invasions and murders to stress over on the local front, it can feel like there’s … [Read more...]
Special Operations Forces Backpack Nukes
Though it sounds like the plot of a movie the reality is that select Army engineer, Special Forces, Navy SEALs and select Marines were once trained to employ backpack nukes. The scientists of Los Almos Scientific Laboratory created the W54 atomic warhead in the late ‘50s. It … [Read more...]
Think Like a Green Beret: Plan Your Exfil First
Nobody hates a suicide mission more than a Green Beret. Through the entire training pipeline, it is emphasized that a highly trained Special Forces soldier is a national treasure who should smart his way out of things and live to fight another day. Turns out that the National … [Read more...]