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     A panel discussion titled America Under Attack — Defending the Homeland was held during the Air & Space Forces Association’s 2022 Air, Space & Cyber Conference, at National Harbor, Maryland on September 21st.
     Navy Admiral Charles A. Richard is the commander to the U.S. Strategic Command. He joined the panel which was discussing important national security concerns. He said, “All of us in this room are back in the business of contemplating competition through crisis and possible direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer. We have not had to do that in over 30 years. The implications of that are profound. They’re profound for homeland defense. They’re profound for strategic deterrence, as well as us achieving national objectives. And this is no longer theoretical.”
     Richard went on to say that every Defense Department plan and capability rests on an assumption that strategic deterrence, especially nuclear deterrence, is holding. If that assumption proves not to be true, nothing else in the department or joint force is going to work the way that it was designed to work. He added, “Russia and China can escalate to any level of violence that they choose in any domain with any instrument of power worldwide. We just haven’t faced competitors and opponents like that in a long time.”
       Richard pointed out that the Defense Department will have to change its approach to warfare. The slower, traditional approaches to escalation just don’t work anymore. In defending the homeland, combatants will need to be able to act quickly against an opponent in all combat domains. This includes land, sea, air, space and cyberspace theaters.
      The recent nuclear posture review for the U.S. lays out an excellent strategy according to Richard. The strategy endorses modernization of the nuclear triad and its command, control, and communication system. He said, “We need to execute this very good strategy as the threat from China continues to increase. We don’t know where that’s going to end, as the threat from Russia continues to increase, along with the other challenges that we face.”
     James H. Dickinson is the commander of U.S. Space Command. He also participated in the panel discussion. He emphasized the integrated deterrence that Richard covered. He noted that Spacecom uses the term to mean collaborating with allies, partners and industry. He went on to say that Spacecom’s assets are shared with Stratcom, Northcom and other combatant commanders. These assets include providing space domain awareness.
     Air Force General Glen D. VanHerck is the commander of U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. He also participated in the panel discussion. He said that his first mission is to provide aerospace warning for threats to North American. When the North American Aerospace Defense Command went operational in 1958, its mission was much simpler. They only had to detect bombers or intercontinental ballistic missiles. Today, the aerospace warning challenge is significantly different and more difficult because of the deployment of cruise missiles, unmanned aerial systems and hypersonic missiles that can evade radar detection.

Iran’s Raisi is ‘a murderer president’ who will never get a nuclear bomb, Israeli UN ambassador foxnews.com

Westinghouse Establishes Cooperation with Dozens of Polish Suppliers for the Construction of the First Polish Nuclear Power Plant businesswire4.com

Liz Truss dismisses Putin’s nuclear threats as sign of desperation theguardian.com

Iran’s Raisi Questions Worth of a Nuclear Deal Without an End to IAEA Probes usnews.com

 

 

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      I have been following the Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. A lot of damage has been done in and around the plant. There is great international concern that the Russians may do something stupid and release radiation that could spread across Europe. Now comes a report about possible problematic Russian actions at Zaporizhzhia that could lead to a nuclear disaster. I hope that it is not true.
     There have been unconfirmed reports that Russian forces at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant could be attempting to drain the cooling pond at the plant. They supposedly want to drain the cooling pond so they could conduct weapons searches. Dorfman said that this would be insane and warned of disaster if the Russian forces carried out their plan. He added that “Draining spent nuclear fuel ponds would be utter madness, as cascading problems could lead to very significant radioactive release – and depending on which way the wind is blowing, the radioactive pollution could either go to Europe or Russia.”
      Dorfman’s comments followed unconfirmed reports that a Ukrainian diver at Zaporizhzhia had died after being beaten by Russian soldiers because he refused to enter the cooling pool. This story was reported by the Kyiv Independent with quotes from the Mayor of Enerhodar. The title of the Independent story was Russian forces torture diver at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to death.
     “Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov reported on July 3 that Andrii Honcharuk died in hospital after he was brutally beaten by Russian forces for refusing to dive into [a] pool at the plant.”
      Dr. Dorfman said that it was obvious that the Ukrainian staff at the nuclear power plant were working “under duress”. He continued, “The fact is, one significant wrong step, one incident will change everything, irrevocably. Both for Ukraine and also for the global nuclear project. Even [the] Nuclear Energy Agency admits profoundly limited real-time information about what’s really happening on the ground. It’s a shooting war, after all. So, the Russian invasion of Ukraine unveils the reality of the weaponization of civil nuclear. It’s clear that Ukraine’s nuclear workers are under huge duress – and that could lead to very troubling consequences. Nuclear is a high-risk endeavor, after all.”
      This is not the first time that events at Zaporizhzhia have triggered anxiety among experts with knowledge of nuclear power plants. Earlier this year, there was a fire in an outbuilding. The plant itself sustained damage due to Russian shelling. Dr. Dorfman remarked, “I didn’t sleep at all for a few days.”
     There are six nuclear power reactors at Zaporizhzhia. Currently four of the six are shut down or are in the processed being cooled. This was reported by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). The Observatoire Départemental d’Equipement Commercial (ODEC) NEA is an intergovernmental agency that works on nuclear technology, science, law and safety.
     One major argument against nuclear power is the problems that would arise if a nuclear reactor were located in a war zone. This was hypothetical until the Russians seized Zaporizhzhia.

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US calls on world to tell Russia to stop its nuclear threats apnews.com

State Department made ‘calculation’ to prioritize Iran nuclear deal over human rights issues foxnews.com

Holy See reaffirms support for Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty vaticannews.va

 

 

 

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Three EU leaders urge calm over Putin’s nuclear rhetoric reuters.com

Pope praises Kazakhstan’s support of nuclear weapons ban, peace catholicnews.com

Australia may expel Russian ambassador after Putin’s nuclear aggression, Penny Wong says theguardian.com

Unit 3 start-up accelerates achievement of UAE Net Zero 2050 gulfnews.com

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