MONOLOGUE WRITTEN BY CLYDE LEWIS

This last Saturday, some of us experienced 40 minutes of chilling fear when a nuclear alert was sent on our cell phones telling us that the Hawaiian Islands were under attack. I was first sent a screenshot of the attack warning and immediately phoned my boss. I was ready to head out the door and to the office when my wife received a call telling her that it was a false alarm and there was no missile detected and that it was an accident.

Panicked Hawaiians ran for their lives and even lowered loved ones through manhole covers after receiving the alert at 8:07am local time.

It read: ‘BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL’.

A similar message flashed up on local television networks and brought live sports games to a halt. The false alarm was caused by a Hawaii Emergency Management Agency employee who ‘pushed the wrong buttons’ during a shift handover.

Incredibly, officials said the employee who made the mistake wasn’t aware of it until mobile phones in the command center began displaying the alert.

His mistake could not have come at a worse time.

Faced with a public outcry following a false missile alert, Hawaiian officials apologized, saying an automated method of retracting warnings will be introduced and two employees, instead of one, will handle it in the future.

PHOTO CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK/LORCEL

All of the panic was caused by a single mouse click.

Before we breathe a sigh of relief and think that the fear wasn’t justified, there have been various simulated nuclear events that have been happening all over the world which once again indicates that a rebooted cold war is being organized and again the mainstream media is failing to report that the entire world is already preparing for nuclear war and are confident that there may be a nuclear standoff this year that could escalate into a full scale attack.

The media’s response to the false alarm was that the war of words between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has everyone on edge. However the war of words cannot describe what actions are being taken to heighten the conflict between the United States and North Korea.

The United States Air Force has moved three of its stealthy Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit strategic bombers to Guam as tensions continue with North Korea. But while the Pentagon does not deny that the arrival of the stealth bombers on Guam is designed to send a signal to Pyongyang, the message is not aimed solely at North Korea. It is a message aimed at Russia and China, who are also in the region.

In September of 2017, we reported that Russia held extensive military exercises that included the use of both Russian and Belarusian military forces. The drills were scheduled to last for at least a week. The exercises were a simulated nuclear attack against NATO.

On December 19, German newspaper BILD reported that two NATO member intelligence sources had claimed the September drills were a “dry run” for a “full-scale conventional war against NATO in Europe.”

BILD had no official confirmation of the claim until recently when it ran an interview with Estonian General Riho Terras, who confirmed the accusations that Russia had “simulated a large-scale military attack against NATO.”

Aside from Belarus, the drills were also held in the Baltic Sea, western Russia, and Russia’s outpost at Kaliningrad. The Independent notes that according to Russia’s Defense Ministry, the drills were intended to depict a fictional scenario concerned with attacks by militants.

However, according to Terras, Russia lied about the nature of their military exercises.

According to BILD, the drills involved far more troops than the 12,700 Russia initially claimed. BILD’s sources told the newspaper another 12,000 Russian soldiers had taken part in exercises near Estonia’s borders and more than 10,000 had participated in the area near the north of Finland and Norway.

Due to a legal obligation established in the Vienna document, a Cold War-era treaty that lays out the rules of military exercises, drills featuring more than 13,000 soldiers should be open to observers who can fly over and interview soldiers. According to the Independent, NATO sent one expert to a visitor day in Russia and two to a visitor day in Belarus.

At the time, NATO sounded the alarm over accusations that Russia was practicing war games with far more troops than it had originally let on.

NATO responded by covertly carrying out nuclear simulations.

In October of 2017 NATO personnel in Belgium and Germany kicked off its iteration of the alliance’s main nuclear deterrence exercise, nicknamed Steadfast Noon. Publicly available U.S. military documents describe its main goal simply as “operations plan validation.”

In addition, the Russians followed up the massive conventional demonstration with a show of nuclear force, including intercontinental ballistic missile tests by its Strategic Missile Forces. One of these involved a weapon with an all-new warhead design that seems intended to defeat ballistic missile shields such as the one the NATO is presently developing. Though experts debate how serious the danger is, there is a real concern that the Kremlin has adopted a doctrine of “escalating to de-escalate,” as well, which could involve a limited nuclear strike, further underscoring the continued importance of deterrence.

On top of that, there have also been an increasing number of reported incidents of electronic and cyber harassment against alliance members and their other European partners. These almost certainly originate in Russia and highlight the tense nature of the situation despite the lack of any active conflict.

A leaked document from U.S. Strategic Command’s (STRATCOM) Operations Plan (OPLAN) 8010 indicates that apparently the United States is not at all wanting a preemptive nuclear strike, but the nuclear reality is in the cards and we best be prepared for it.

PHOTO CREDIT: DOD/D. MYLES CULLEN

The document is highly redacted and was only available in both the 2008 draft and a draft that is dated for 2012.

There is a section that details “countries that present global threats,” but the un-redacted portions of the document do not describe North Korea by name. Unclassified text specifically mentions Russia and China, but to does not suggest either one is an imminent danger to Americans.

“The term ‘enemy’ is used in the singular form throughout this document for simplicity,” the OPLAN says. “However, because of the global view of this plan and the varied nature of the adversary set, multiple enemies are addressed.”

The 2012 document includes five enemies that we could potentially have a nuclear conflict with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and Syria according to the updated version.

This would make sense, given that officials in Washington see all of these as potential adversaries who either have nuclear arsenals or are seeking to obtain them. Russia and China both maintain stockpiles with hundreds of warheads, as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the United States. The U.S. government believes Iran’s nuclear program is focused on weapons development, despite repeated denials from their counterparts in Tehran. And in 2007, Israeli warplanes bombed an apparent covert nuclear reactor in Syria.

Of course, it’s possible that instead of Syria and Iran, the paragraphs could have mentioned nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, who continue to experience significant tensions, linked in no small part to the continuing disagreement over the final status of the Kashmir region. The publicly released portions only refer to actors seeking WMD, too, which could encompass countries or non-state groups seeking to build up large stockpiles of chemical, biological, or radiological weaponry.

Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since President Trump took office, that Hawaii’s false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with North Korea.

For all the power of nuclear weapons, scholars say their gravest dangers come from the uncertainty they create and the fallibility of human operators, who must read every signal perfectly for mutual deterrence to hold.

False alarms can trigger an all out confrontation.

The danger is that it appears that the United States is not avoiding a war, but is seeking a pretext or provocation for war.

According to leaked documents from the Freedom of Information Act, we could trigger a “full scale response” from North Korea and a misinterpretation of that response in what can be called a “fail-safe” type communication breakdown.

“Fail Safe” is a well-known cold war film that starred Henry Fonda as the President of the United States. The film is based on the book by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. Due to an astronomically devastating computer error, the United States is under the impression that the Russians have launched a nuclear attack on the United States.

The Russians, of course, are now realizing that the flight of Strategic Air Command bombers, originating in Alaska and carrying two nuclear warheads, is past what is known as the ‘fail-safe’ point. With Russian military jamming their communication, they cannot be recalled. They are headed toward Moscow to drop their bombs and complete their mission. The options of stopping them are both limited and extremely time sensitive.

Pressure mounts as the President and his advisers attempt to recall the group or shoot them down. Communications finally open with the Soviet President. In a chilling exchange, both leaders acknowledge that mistakes and misinterpretations have been made on both sides. However, that does not erase the fact that the jamming of signals and the accidental launch of the warheads has commenced.

The President of the United States has to inform the Soviet Chairman that Russia will be destroyed as the SAC pilot protocols cause the crew to reject counter-orders to abort the mission. The President then informs the Soviet Chairman that upon confirmation of the accidental nuclear attack on Moscow, the President is forced to order an immediate similar nuclear strike on New York City.

That was how we feared the bomb and miscommunication in the 1950’s – the fictional miscommunication and false alarms triggered a grave response from the United States.

Now, according to the OPLAN 8010 strategy, if officials in Pyongyang resort to WMD attacks for any reason, OPLAN 8010 swings from “deter” to “defeat,” stressing in its text the need for American political will to employ “strategic forces if deterrence fails.” As part of a standing mission dubbed Operation Global Citadel, the Pentagon maintains a so-called “Nuclear Triad” of nuclear-armed heavy bombers, land- and sea-based ballistic missiles. Smaller fighter jets can carry the B61 thermonuclear gravity bomb, if necessary.

Obviously, Hawaii takes emergency preparedness very seriously.

However does the accidental triggering of the alarm system create a lack of credibility?

Well, not exactly – the nuclear panic has kept many government agencies on edge.

On January 2, U.S. President Donald Trump sent the now-infamous tweet in which he asserted that his “nuclear button” was both “much bigger” and “more powerful” than that of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

PHOTO CREDIT: EVAN VUCCI

Two days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced plans to stage a live streamed teaching session for medical professionals titled “Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation” on January 16.

During the teaching sessions speakers from the CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other government agencies have prepared to deliver presentations with such titles as “Roadmap to Radiation Preparedness” and “Public Health: Preparing for the Unthinkable.”

After the incident in Hawaii, the CDC cancelled their plans.

The CDC’s announcement that it was holding a nuclear preparation workshop drew widespread media coverage and embarrassed the public health agency. It also gave ammunition to administration critics who believe that the president is bringing the country closer to a nuclear Armageddon.

No matter how early we sound the alarm and demonstrate that history will repeat itself, America will fall for the false flag manipulation giving us no choice but to become willing participants into the Armageddon-like slaughter.

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Written by Ron Patton