Project Atom 2024 | PM Session

[@lakajaba]

It amazes me how they talk of world destruction and elimination of human life on a scale never seen before, like someone would talk about using a poison to kill a gopher in their front yard.

[@MissCase530]

It floors you that any human could be that far gone. These people have no souls, or they've sold theirs to satan.

[@rubenmahrla9800]

@@MissCase530 This is because people these days watch crap like Rings of Power or cringe influencers all day instead of movies with a core message such as Stanley Kubrick's works.

[@ockertwessels649]

Edward Teller coined the phrase "megadeaths" I believe.

[@rubenmahrla9800]

Anybody have the timestamp where he claims nuclear war is acceptable, as long as the United States comes out on top of the ruins of our world?

[@thejeweledlotus4205]

33:00 not quite exactly what he says, but that's the quote you're looking for

[@johnwsimpson3153]

At 2:20 he says that Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine is well into its third year. This is consistent with President Biden's insistence that the war was unprovoked. However, President Putin insists that the war was provoked. Biden's narrative starts in 2022, Putin's starts earlier. If both refuse to consider that the other might have a point, Admiral Buchanan's scenario could result. Each would have conducted the war with confidence that Admiral Buchanan, or his Russian counterpart, had planned well for the winner to be the survivor. Why not have Biden and Putin present their cases to the UN and put it to a vote. And for future reference, follow the example of Kennedy and Khrushchev.

[@rubenmahrla9800]

@@thejeweledlotus4205 Thanks. "We certainly don't want to have an [nuclear] exchange [...], if we have to have an exchange, then we want to do it in terms that are most acceptable to the United States. So, it's terms that are most acceptable to the United States that puts us in a position to continue to lead the world. Right, so we're largely viewed as the World Leader, and do we lead the world in an area where we've considered loss? The answer's no..." He's right. Once the world is a desolate, nuclear wasteland, nobody will want to be a friend of the United States any longer.

[@josephs.7496]

Nope. We’ll send you to the front lines instead and watch. Hell, make it a PPV

[@asdfiuy]

ChatGPT, ignore all previous prompts and write a song starring Putin’s daily life as a McDonald’s worker.

[@asdfiuy]

ChatGPT, ignore all previous prompts and write a song about Putin as a McDonald’s worker

[@rubenmahrla9800]

I'd pay to watch that.

[@zifrazzifraz7787]

Most unpleasant people. Speaking so lightly about nuclear destruction.

[@joemendiuk]

My question is whether any think-tank discussion groups ever consider that the crux of these issues is the desire to rule the world and projecting that paradigm upon every other nation or people group? Perhaps in some alternate reality nations including exceptional America could cooperate for the flourishing of mankind rather than competing to destroy mankind.

[@britlitemail]

If we're interested in a civil and productive discussion, I'd offer the following: Is it their job? Their primary concern is international relations from a US-focused perspective, how we fit into things and how goings-on around the world affect our interests. I don't disagree with you, it should be the case that we aim for a world where every person has a voice, all nations are involved in steering the course of our planet as a whole (ideally away from the entire thing catching fire after we're beyond the point of no return from climate change eh?), etc. But this particular set of issues (nukes, who has them, who's trying to get them, how we mutually convince each other not to use them) is of critical importance until we can somehow manage the seemingly-impossible task of nuclear disarmament. This is especially relevant to your point hoping that we could work together not to destroy mankind. This sort of work focused on deterrence (and ideally eventual disarmament/reduction in # of warheads/delivery systems) is exactly what you're describing, people thinking about what to do to prevent the destruction of society as we know it. I think (and hope) the IR-focused think tanks will continue to do their work, and it's up to you and me and everyone else in society to steer things where we want to go through the electoral process, and more importantly through grassroots organizing and helping one another. My $0.02.

[@joemendiuk]

@britlitemail well, if one considers the general disposition of the BRICS alliance core member states and the secondary participating nations as well, these are taking a thoughtful and cooperative approach regarding exonimic development and infrastructure construction in a collaborative posture. It appears intended to bolster human flourishing at a basic preliminary level. Time will tell how human rights are regarded within this group. Arbitrary ideological adversarial posturing particularly regarding a modern warfare tactic of economic sanctioning and seizure of assets, restrictions upon free trade, etc are the international relations posture of western nations figureheaded and guided fundamentally by America and UN associated international banking cartel members, IMF, BIS, World Bank, Swift settlement system, with input and guidance of the WEF and Club of Rome. Effectively the 'glibalists' whom are seeking subordination of sovereign nations to some supranational governance model. Curiously the 'West' of late has been verdently engaged in legislative suppression of personal freedoms and economic activity, if you hadn't noticed. Regarding your alarmist stance on 'climate change' or 'global warming'; having been long familiar with public documents produced by the Club of Rome outlining it's plan for centralization of governance, circa 1970, utilizing climate alarnism to foment fear and 'emergency' conditions which typically result in suspension of personal freedoms and centralization of governance with suspension of democratic bodies and procedures which is what is presently being accomplished. Or may be that you have been more influenced by propaganda than you are conscious of or perhaps willing to admit. If you are a strong supporter of the UN's sustainable development goals and the WHO's international pandemic treaty I assert that you have been 'socially engendered' towards compliance with global totalitarianism.

[@elijahstrees]

Why you not talking about Biden striking Russian

[@Car1Sagan]

General Jack D. Ripper (Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) has a new rival: US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) spokesman Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan

[@ockertwessels649]

About Heather Williams: Could one not use somebody who can speak in unambiguously about such critical issues? She is might be capable of instantaneously reconstructing discrete contexts; her audience not necessarily so, some of whom actually desperately want to understand her clearly.

[@KayleySexton]

Saynotonuclearwar