{"id":29229,"date":"2017-06-20T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29229"},"modified":"2017-06-21T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:29:09","slug":"playing-nuclear-chicken-or-is-it-russian-roulette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/20\/playing-nuclear-chicken-or-is-it-russian-roulette\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Nuclear Chicken \u2013 or is it Russian Roulette?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was not immediately clear how close the U.S. military recon jet was flying near Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between NATO allies Poland and Lithuania. This fall, Russia moved nuclear-capable ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad, putting some European capitals in strike range.&#8221; <em>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/06\/20\/breaking-news-armed-russian-jet-comes-within-5-feet-us-recon-jet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armed Russian jet comes within 5 feet of US recon jet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;At the end, we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals \u2014 Kennedy was rational, Castro was rational, Khrushchev was rational \u2014 came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today. The major lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is this: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will destroy nations.&#8221; <em>&#8211;U.S. Vietnam &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/does-the-law-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">War<\/a>&#8221; Defense Sec. Robert McNamara, <a href=\"https:\/\/freedocumentaries.org\/documentary\/the-fog-of-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fog of War<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, is it just &#8220;<em>Nuclear Chicken<\/em>&#8221; \u2013 or is it <em>Russian Roulette<\/em>?\u00a0 Or maybe both?<\/p>\n<p>And will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.org\/tle2014\/tle766-20140413-03.html\">M.A.D. still work after all these years<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was not immediately clear how close the U.S. military recon jet was flying near Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between NATO allies Poland and Lithuania. This fall, Russia moved nuclear-capable ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad, putting some European capitals in strike range.&#8221; &#8212; Armed Russian jet comes within 5 feet of US recon jet &#8220;At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,7,95,434,3,18,44,51],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armageddon","category-empire","category-intervention","category-never-forget","category-news","category-nukes","category-syria","category-wmd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29236,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29229\/revisions\/29236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29229"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}