Hiroshima, Nagasaki 70 Years On, Damascus Next City to be Nuked to Fulfill Bible Prophecy?
Politics / Nuclear Weapons Aug 07, 2015 - 02:26 AM GMTBy: Nadeem_Walayat
Japan and much of the world this week will be commemorating America's nuking of two Japanese cities in August 1945 that resulted the incineration of over 250,000 people, 90% of whom were innocent civilians. Whilst to much of the world the nuking of these cities was clearly a war crime, to the US and some of its allies was deemed to be a necessary evil so as to bring a speedy end to the War in the Pacific. Though the facts are that Japan at the time was already negotiating its surrender, so the real reason why the bombs were dropped was so as to justify the huge amount of expense that had been incurred which would only be satisfied by such demonstrations.
The world to date has been extremely lucky not to have had a single city nuked since 1945, especially given the many close calls during the Cold War when on many occasions the world was minutes away from Armageddon. However despite the end of the Cold war a quarter of a century ago, the world's cities are not any safer, far from it for the fact is that the number of nations armed with nuclear weapons continues to expand and with them so do the size of their arsenals so the nuclear weapons crisis is not just one of Russia and America agreeing to reduce their nuclear warheads from the tens of thousands to under 5,000 each. But rather the expansion in the capability of other nations for each wiping out hundreds of cities.
Nuclear Warheads
| Country | Total Warheads |
| United States | 4800 |
| Russia | 4800 |
| France | 300 |
| China | 300 |
| Israel | 300 |
| UK | 230 |
| India | 120 |
| Pakistan | 120 |
| North Korea | 15 |
For instance Israel alone has an estimated 300 nuclear weapons. That is enough to wipe out EVERY MAJOR WORLD CITY. Similarly India has over 100 nukes, Pakistan over 100, and China's nukes number at least 300, EACH of which is capable of destroying every major world city, and there lies the risk.
Furthermore the hot zone for bringing about a nuclear exchange is the middle that is soaked in blood, religious End Time prophecies with the region fast gathering the means to bring about Armageddon as nuclear stock piles continue to expand. The ongoing drone war over Pakistan is encouraging stronger alliances with fellow Sunni states such as Saudi Arabia that is reported to have several Pakistani nuclear weapons on order and ready to be dispatched on request to counter both Israeli and any Iranian threat, that itself despite much propaganda has been engaged in a nuclear weapons programme to rival that of Pakistan or Israel. The region still appears to be counting down towards Armageddon when the region and its prophecies will be vaporised for eternity as I covered in depth in November 2013.
Nuclear Weapon Arsenals Are not Safe
However the risk is far beyond states deliberately engaging in nuclear conflict for contrary to that which most people assume the nuclear arsenals of ANY nuclear state are NOT SAFE. All it takes is ONE mistake and nuclear material capable of constructing a devastating dirty bomb let alone an actual nuclear warhead device is within reach of any who are determined in enough to achieve, be it even within the United States.
Nuclear weapons as a matter of routine are TRANSPORTED across the road networks of nuclear armed nations. In which respect it only takes ONE lapse in intelligence to result in a catastrophic outcome.
The world sits on a stock pile of over 2000 tonnes of plutonium and highly enriched uranium, where it would only take just 5 kg of such material to achieve a detonation on par with Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Therefore the holders of nuclear stocks only need one lapse in security for such an disastrous outcome, especially as those most likely to procure stolen nuclear material are likely to be members of organised crime and arms dealers seeking to sell the materials on for profit rather than obvious Islamic fundamentalists on intelligence agency watch lists. Which given the Russian chaos of the past 25 years implies that there is already more than enough nuclear material available on the black market for the construction of multiple devices.
Therefore 70 years on from Hiroshima the actual risks of a nuclear detonation in a major world city remains critically high, that I would rate at being more than 50% probability over the next 15 years i.e. it is more probable than not that there will have been an at least one nuclear attack on a major city by 2030.
Top Cities At risk of Being Nuked over the Next 15 Years!
1. Damascus - Syria
The global media's focus is firmly on the Islamic State that brings attention to Syria's capital city of Damascus which in fact has always topped the list of the cities that could be nuked. Not just because of the current civil war underway that gives space for the likes of Islamic State and a dozen other fundamentalists ideologies to flourish. But that why Damascus and why today's Jewish state Israel has been armed with over 200 nuclear weapons is because some 100 million fundamentalist Christians in the United States alone crave the destruction of Damascus so as to bring about "End Times", "Judgement Day" so that they may be ruptured straight to heaven on fulfillment of Bible prophecy.
Isiah 17
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.
The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
The fundamentalist Christian right, the neo-cons, have been laying the groundwork for armageddon in the middle east for the past 60 years. Which is the primary reason why Israel exists and is armed to the teeth with enough nukes to annihilate every major city on Earth.
Ezek 38:16-19
And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel.
Which is why Damascus tops the list of the city most likely to be nuked / annihilated so that Christian fundamentalists would fulfill bible prophecy with Jewish fundamentalists also following their own obsession to justify the evil that they need to do so that their Messiah will come and resurrect the dead "Walking Dead" style.
2. Seoul - South Korea
North Korea is a basket case with its dear fat leader throwing tantrums every few months, which as a matter of routine involves threatening to annihilate South Korea's capital city Seoul. The North Korean regime that has enslaved the whole of its population resides in a perpetual state of paranoia that perceives every disastrous domestic event such as the periodic food crisis as a consequences of a foreign conspiracy, which could under a chain reaction of events result in nuclear catastrophe.
The North Korean nuclear crisis can only get worse as the regime both expands the number of nuclear warheads from currently approx 15, and at the same time develops the means of delivery which ultimately means war heads on ballistic missiles, a stage where it is currently now quite there yet.
The other major risk from North Korea is the sale of nuclear technologies to other rogue states or even weapons grade plutonium or uranium to terrorists.
3. New York
Given the history of both attempted attacks and attacks which actually succeeded such as 9/11 then New York probably tops the Jihadists target list for some sort of nuclear terror attack, especially as there is plenty of nuclear material stockpiled within the borders of the United States. So such an attack would not need to import anything but the threat could manifest itself as part of a two stage plan of first local procurement and then delivery all within a few hours, especially given the suicidal tendency of those who would be behind such an attack who would care not for protective measures but just efficient delivery of a dirty bomb.
To illustrate the degree of risk, the US still has 450 minutemen nuclear missiles in silos disbursed amongst farmland across several US states as a cold war legacy that is just sat asking for trouble. So far the United states has been extremely lucky in this respect, but the US seriously needs to get its own act together and secure such nuclear weapons that could relatively easily fall into the wrong hands, and before accusing others such as Russia of their own lack of nuclear security.
4. Pakistan, China, USA, India, Russia, Israeli home grown fanatics
Any city in one of these nations could be fourth on the list of being nuked given the amount of nuclear material stock piled and lack of security all of whom have demonstrated ample scope for the potential for home grown fanatics to achieve their nuclear terror ambitions, which means any one of these nations cities are at risk of a domestically generated nuclear attack.
Reducing the Risks of a Nuclear Attack
The only sure way to reduce the risks of a nuclear attack is to reduce, concentrate and properly secure the stock piles of nuclear weapons and materials. To which end the Iran nuclear deal is a small step in the right direction and which should be expanded to EVERY nuclear nation, starting with the other smaller nuclear states such Israel, Pakistan and India and ultimately should include even the likes of Russia and the United States, else there WILL be a nuclear attack and far sooner than anyone imagines today, for the nuclear time bomb has been ticking for over 70 years now and it is very hungry to consume its next city!
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