{"id":194875,"date":"2019-09-16T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194875"},"modified":"2019-09-21T05:43:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T05:43:19","slug":"nuclear-war-with-russia-winnable-said-trumps-incoming-national-security-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194875","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear War with Russia Winnable Said Trump’s Incoming National Security Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mish \u2013 Money Maven.io Sept 13, 2019<\/h1>\n

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Questioning \u201cmutual assured destruction,\u201d Charles Kupperman called nuclear conflict \u201cin large part a physics problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Incoming National Security Advisor, Charles Kupperman, made the claim Nuclear War With USSR Was Winnable<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He made those statements in the 1980s. I do not know his views today, but let’s review what he said then.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s acting national security adviser, former Reagan administration official Charles Kupperman, made an extraordinary and controversial claim in the early 1980s: nuclear conflict with the USSR was winnable and that \u201cnuclear war is a destructive thing but still in large part a physics problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kupperman, appointed to his new post on Tuesday after Trump fired his John Bolton from the job, argued it was possible to win a nuclear war \u201cin the classical sense,\u201d and that the notion of total destruction stemming from such a superpower conflict was inaccurate. He said that in a scenario in which 20 million people died in the U.S. as opposed to 150 million, the nation could then emerge as the stronger side and prevail in its objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n

His argument was that with enough planning and civil defense measures, such as \u201ca certain layer of dirt and some reinforced construction materials,\u201d the effects of a nuclear war could be limited and that U.S. would be able to fairly quickly rebuild itself after an all-out conflict with the then-Soviet Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time, Kupperman was executive director of President Ronald Reagan\u2019s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. He made the comments during an interview with Robert Scheer for the journalist\u2019s 1982 book, \u201cWith Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The National Security Council did not immediately respond to questions on whether Kupperman, 68, still holds the same views of nuclear conflict as he did in the early 1980s. Kupperman\u2019s seemingly cavalier attitude toward the potential death of millions of people was criticized at the time both by Democratic politicians and arms control experts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article posts excerpts so let’s look at a couple of precise statements.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kupperman Statements<\/strong><\/h3>\n