Nuclear War With Russia "Winnable" Said Trump's Incoming National Security Advisor | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED


Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk,

Questioning “mutual assured destruction,” Charles Kupperman called nuclear conflict “in large part a physics problem.”

He made those statements in the 1980s. I do not know his views today, but let's review what he said then.

President Donald Trump’s acting national security adviser, former Reagan administration official Charles Kupperman, made an extraordinary and controversial claim in the early 1980s: nuclear conflict with the USSR was winnable and that “nuclear war is a destructive thing but still in large part a physics problem.”

Kupperman, appointed to his new post on Tuesday after Trump fired his John Bolton from the job, argued it was possible to win a nuclear war “in the classical sense,” and that the notion of total destruction stemming from such a superpower conflict was inaccurate. He said that in a scenario in which 20 million people died in the U.S. as opposed to 150 million, the nation could then emerge as the stronger side and prevail in its objectives.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Forgive me, but is being barking-dog mad, science-challenged, and pig-headedly wrong, now three prerequisites for attaining the US's office of National Security Advisor?

And if one will note, his school background Bio: Charles Kupperman shows absolutely no studies in nuclear physics, or nuclear energy. He has been, in previous administrations, in various positions where he should have had the scientific knowledge necessary to really handle the positions to which he was assigned, which included the following: 'Kupperman was a foreign policy adviser to Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign.[7] After Reagan was elected, Kupperman joined the Reagan administration. He was Executive Assistant to the Acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and then the Executive Director of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control[8] of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, before becoming the Executive Assistant to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.[6] In July 1986 he became Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Office of Administration.[4]

Kupperman worked at two defense contractors, Lockheed Martin and Boeing; he was the vice president for business development for missile defense systems for Boeing and the vice president of Washington Space Operations for Lockheed Martin Corporation.'

And I have to ask, as a person very concerned about the trajectory of US foreign policy, why is it that, when someone leaves the administration in a huff, they tend to get replaced by an individual who is even more to the right of Attila the Hun regarding Russia,China,and Iran than was their predecessor?!?

So Mr. President, I would like to politely suggest that the US needs a Director for a US Department of Science, to advise your Advisors,particularly Kupperman.

I do not know what the brilliant American scientist Michio Kaku is doing right now; Bio: Michio Kaku
but this guy is absolutely solid on the science of nuclear war, and would be a great person to have in your cabinet.

And another person with whom you want Kupperman to consult, is the highly respected physician, Dr. Helen Caldicott. Bio: Dr. Helen Caldicott

Mr. President, please: these are two people who will not tell you "Yes, Mr. President", if both their logic and scientific grounding, tells them that a particular move by this country, would put it on dangerous ground.

And Mr. President, if there was ever a time during your first Administration when you desperately needed people like Kaku and Caldicott, who are invested in telling you the truth, the time for such people to be included, and listened to, is right the hell now, President Trump.

You are welcome!