The Scorecard
One Nation has won the seat of Farrer. The Liberal vote collapsed by 31 points. The journalists filed the numbers. Urban Wronski asks the harder question: what does a win like this mean when the information ecosystem that democracy depends on is owned, hollowed out, and burning? A Martin Amis- flavoured reckoning with journalism, dark money and the Palace of Lies.
Some poor bastard trained 20 years in national security just to carry a briefcase for a man who once asked if nukes could “clean” hurricanes.
That’s not the nuclear football.
That’s America’s emotional support bomb.
Today we at #FattoQuotidiano, run an interview w/US physicist #TedPostol (who accessed the #BlackBook in the US president's #NuclearFootball).
"I think they [#Iranians]are very reluctant[to build a bomb],but they may feel they have no choice"
US "defense" policy dictates that the president must always be able to launch nuclear weapons in minutes. 1,770 weapons are maintained ready to fire on command. The tools for the president to order nuclear attack are contained in a suitcase nicknamed the #NuclearFootball and is never more than 100m away.
Here is the Nuclear Football entering the #Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park with Biden during the #G7 yesterday (Chugoku Newspaper Press image).
It is callous to bring the ability to launch nuclear attacks from the place where more than 100,000 were killed by a previous US nuclear attack. It is also the reality of nuclear weapons for the G7, rather than the performance of wanting a world free of nuclear weapons. The reality is a world were the use of nuclear weapons is never more than 100m away.
Really good story by my friend Uzaemonnaotsuka Toukai in the Chugoku Shimbun, our local newspaper here in #Hiroshima, with an image of the US nuclear football in the Hiroshima Peace Park during the visit there yesterday by President Biden during the #G7.
This enables the president to order the launch of #nuclear weapons from anywhere, in this case, from inside the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park.
The presence of this military capability in such a place is both disrespectful to those killed by the 1945 nuclear attack, and highlights the insanity of nuclear weapon policies. It also shows how performative is the idea that the G7 Summit reflected any desire for nuclear disarmament.
#NuclearFootball @AtomicAnalyst @sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities #ChugokuShimbun
The Nuclear Football is coming to Hiroshima! To the Peace Park and the Memorial Peace Museum!
This will allow the US President to order the launch of nuclear weapons in minutes, from Hiroshima!
#Hiroshima #G7 #NuclearFootball #NuclearWeapons
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