The Nuclear War Is Coming (Revelation 15)

THE IRON CURTAIN 2: Russia-Europe nuclear war 'COMING'

A NEW ironclad divide has built up across the world as nuclear war becomes INEVITABLE, it is being warned.

By Rachel O'Donoghue
00.02, 07 Feb 2017 UPDATED 01.02, 07 Feb 2017

Military and political leaders are predicting 2017 will see the face of the Earth totally transformed as current tensions finally boil over.

Relationships between the world's superpowers are currently in their most precarious state in recent years as humanitarian and diplomatic catastrophes threaten mankind.

But before the first missile has been fired, an Iron Curtain has descended once more across the world.

This was the name given to a divide that developed between the east of Europe and the west of Europe – the former under Soviet Russia's control and the latter allied with the United States.

From 1945 onwards, this boundary existed as relationships between the two sides were on a knife edge with the threat of nuclear war ever-present.

And once again, the looming threat of the use of weapons that would devastate entire continents is back.

Molly K. McKew, a former advisor to the President of Georgia and Moldovan Prime Minister, claimed this month that neither Barack Obama or new US President Donald Trump don't realise is the "West is already at war".

It came after Obama kicked out scores of Russian diplomats from the United States over claims its leader Vladimir Putin had used hacking to influence the US election.

"What both administrations fail to realize is that the West is already at war, whether it wants to be or not," McKew wrote in Politico magazine.

She went on: "So far, [Trump] has chosen to act as if the West no longer matters, seemingly blind to the danger that Putin’s Russia presents to American security and American society.

"The question ahead of us is whether Trump will aid the Kremlin’s goals with his anti-globalist, anti-NATO rhetoric – or whether he’ll clearly see the end of the old order, grasp the nature of the war we are in, and have the vision and the confrontational spirit to win it."

Her comments come as Trump signaled he wanted to have a better relationship with Russia, having previously praised Putin as a "smart guy".

And in a move away from the position of previous US Presidents, Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull funding from NATO – effectively the main Europe defence system consisting of troops from all 28 members states.

Without US support, the NATO defence system would be seriously under threat, leaving all of Europe vulnerable to a Russian invasion.

In the last few weeks alone, thousands of tanks and troops have moved to Russia's border with the aim of protecting Eastern European countries.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev also warned this week the world is clearly "preparing for war".

The ex-statesman, who oversaw the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, said the current militarization of politics and the new arms race is "too dangerous" to go on.

"More troops, tanks and armoured personnel carriers are being brought to Europe. NATO and Russian forces and weapons that used to be deployed at a distance are now placed closer to each other, as if to shoot point-blank," he wrote in a piece for TIME magazine.

He went on: "The nuclear threat once again seems real. Relations between the great powers have been going from bad to worse for several years now.

"It all looks as if the world is preparing for war."

New Jersey #1 Disaster State: The Sixth Seal (Rev 6:12)

States of danger

 Kiplinger News

The Sixth Seal: New York Quake

Disasters can happen anywhere and at any time. But some places experience more than their fair share of floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, winter storms and severe weather — so much so that certain locales earn frightening nicknames, such as Tornado Alley. No matter where you live, make sure you have the right kinds and necessary amounts of insurance coverage to protect your finances.

No. 1: New Jersey

• Estimated property damage (2006-2013): $26.4 billion
• Most frequent disasters: damaging wind, winter storms, floods and flash floods
• Weather-related fatalities (2006-2013): 87

New Jersey earns the top spot on this list, in large part due to damage wrought by Sandy — which had weakened from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone by the time it the Jersey Shore — in October 2012. The state was among the hardest hit by Sandy, which was the second-costliest storm in U.S. history, after Hurricane Katrina. Many homes and businesses were destroyed along the Jersey Shore, and a portion of the Atlantic City Boardwalk washed away. Shortly after Sandy hit, another storm brought wet snow that caused more power outages and damage.

Homeowners who live along the coast or in areas where there are frequent storms should take steps before hurricane season begins to protect their homes and finances from damage.

Pakistan Nuclear Horn Now Has Second Strike Ability

In Search of Pakistan's Second-Strike Capability

Media Center, Image JANUARY 13, 2017 | 15:26 GMT

Unable to match India's massive military expenditures, Pakistan has taken an asymmetric approach to compensate for its comparative weakness: Building up its nuclear arsenal. In fact, Islamabad has already begun to design and develop tactical nuclear weapons that could someday be deployed against Indian troops on the battlefield. Now Pakistan is searching for the second-strike capability — the means of threatening nuclear retaliation even after having suffered an overwhelming nuclear strike. The Babur-3 submarine-launched cruise missile might provide this. With a reported range of 450 kilometers (280 miles), the missile would be able to reach most of India's major cities, though much of the country's interior — including the capital of New Delhi — would still be beyond the reach of Pakistan's nascent at-sea nuclear delivery program.

Pakistan has its reasons for pursuing such capabilities. For one, India is ramping up its investment in anti-ballistic missile defense systems. This, in turn, has prompted Pakistan to shift its attention to producing cruise missiles as an alternative delivery method to ballistic missiles.

India has also begun to develop its own sea-based nuclear deterrent. Based primarily on submarine-launched ballistic missiles, this deterrent would make India's second-strike measures far more credible, pressuring Pakistan to respond in kind by boosting its second-strike capabilities to better discourage a nuclear attack. This objective has become all the more important to Islamabad, since its introduction of tactical nuclear weapons has lowered the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in the region.

Still, creating a plausible sea-based second-strike threat requires a submarine fleet that can fire missiles. As of now Pakistan has only five of these vessels, three of which could be considered fairly modern. Nevertheless, Islamabad plans to dramatically expand its submarine fleet: In 2015, it struck a deal with Beijing to buy eight submarines similar to the Yuan-class model. Pakistan is also in the process of moving its main submarine base from Karachi to Ormara. (The former is more vulnerable to attack because of its proximity to the Indian border.)

When all is said and done, though, Pakistan's decision to rely on nuclear weapons as a means of warding off attack from a more powerful India has increased the chance of nuclear warfare breaking out in South Asia. Though Islamabad's quest for a sea-based nuclear deterrent is hardly surprising, it is a conspicuous example of an alarming pattern of posturing between two nuclear powers that have a long and volatile history of hostility toward each other.

The Korean Nucleat Horn Grows (Daniel 7)

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
FEBRUARY 27, 2015

North Korea could be on track to have an arsenal of 100 nuclear weapons by 2020, according to a new research report. The prediction, from experts on North Korea, goes well beyond past estimates and should force renewed attention on a threat that has been eclipsed by other crises.

At the moment, the United States and five other major powers are negotiating an agreement that would constrain the nuclear program in Iran, which does not possess any nuclear weapons. North Korea, on the other hand, is estimated to have already produced 10 to 16 weapons since 2003.

The new assessment comes from Joel Wit, a former American negotiator with North Korea who is now a senior fellow with the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and David Albright, head of the Institute for Science and International Security. They conclude that North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs have been growing since 2009 and are now “poised for significant expansion over the next five years.” That poses serious threats for other countries in Asia and for the United States.