WWIII Seems to Be on the Horizon

I was told that the Democrats would prevent World War 3, while Trump (Or Bush, or Reagan, back in the day) would be sure to start WWIII. Lower house of Russian parliament votes to revoke ratification of global nuclear test ban

This is silly really. One of the things we proved during the cold war is that you really don't need to test nuclear bombs. Get the math right, the chemistry right, and the engineering right, and they will go boom.

The State Duma lawmakers voted unanimously to revoke the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the third and final reading on Wednesday. The bill will now go to the upper house, the Federation Council, which will consider it next week. Federation Council lawmakers have already said they will support the bill.

The legislation was introduced to parliament following a statement from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who warned earlier this month that Moscow could revoke its 2000 decision to ratify the treaty to “mirror” the stand taken by the United States, which has signed but not ratified the nuclear test ban.

The lack of required testing is why the only states that 'test' such things are making a point. Such as Pakistan did in 1998.

I suppose this explains why Russia conducted a Nuclear Weapons drill for the population at the beginning of the month. Children race to put on gas masks during eerie WW3 nuclear drill.

Russian children were forced to put on gas masks as the country held a terrifying drill for an incoming nuclear attack.

All 11 time zones took part in the drill, as did the government. There were some problems, of course, with alarms sounding at the wrong time, or not at all. That is to be expected in a country as large as Russia. 11 time zones is NOT a typo.

One of the things that Americans refused to acknowledge throughout the Cold War is that Russia never signed on to the idea that nuclear war is unwinnable. They have built bomb and fallout shelters almost continually for since the 1950s. They stopped briefly after the fall of the Soviet Union, but they started construction again shortly after Putin came to power. For that matter Switzerland has bomb or fallout shelters for virtually its entire population. Building Fallout shelters is written into their building code, and has been since the '50s or '60s.

Here are a few of Cold War songs. First up is "So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)" from Tom Lehrer, and "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. This is the version from Wave 103 and the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack. I much prefer this edit to the version from the official video.

The air attack warning sounds like
This is the sound

And finally "Russians" by Sting. "Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children too."