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America s national security hinges on ICBMs ICBMs and their 400 ever-ready warheads are the most important part of the U.S. nuclear deterrent Follow Us
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The fate of Western Civilization may hinge on the great debate now raging within Washington’s beltway, virtually unnoted on nightly news and unknown to most Americans, over whether to replace the nation’s 400 obsolete Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with a new ICBM or unilaterally eliminate all U.S. ICBMs.
My report “Surprise Attack: ICBMs and the Real Nuclear Threat” (October 31, 2020) warned: “A Biden Administration or future Democrat Congress is likely to unilaterally abolish U.S. ICBMs … to the grave detriment of U.S. national security.”
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rimson Tide checks every box of a Simpson-Bruckheimer modern action-thriller classic and offers a little-acknowledged bonus: an ace parenting clinic run by its clashing leads. These are nuclear submarine captain Ramsey, played by the redoubtable Gene Hackman, and his second-in-command Hunter, played by peak-Denzel Washington. These two heavyweights are paired in at a moment of the global nuclear crisis. Ultra-nationalists in Russia have seized control of the country’s nuclear silos; the
U.S.S. Alabama is among the forces being positioned for a pre-emptive strike.
Captain Ramsey’s usual XO has been sidelined by appendicitis, and this elite post has been filled by new-guy Hunter, who sits parked at port, saying goodbye to family, and flexing some dad skills. Seeing his son’s scared expression, he deploys tactical redirection. “I’m worried about T,” he tells the little boy, nodding to the golden retriever in back. “She doesn’t know what’s going on. She thinks I�