Google would have us believe that the United States is in grave danger, threatened by the likes of North Korea, China, Iran, and asteroids. A holiday list of headlines from Google’s nuclear weapons prompts included these fearsome warnings:
“N. Korea will likely keep amassing nuclear warheads until next negotiation,” The Korea Times, Dec. 25, 2023; “Iran’s nuclear breakout: ‘Twas the night before Armageddon,” New York Post, Dec. 24, 2023; “China’s H-20 Bomber Is a Real Threat to the U.S. Military,” The National Interest, Dec. 24, 2023; “Is China rebuilding its old base for nuclear tests? Should India be concerned?” Firstpost, India, Dec. 23, 2023; “Buried nuclear secrets, exploding U.S. tensions: Inside China’s Lop Nur,” The Victoria Advocate, U.K., Dec. 23, 2023; “U.S. expresses serious concern over signs of N. Korea commissioning light-water reactor,” The Korea Times, Seoul, Dec. 26, 2023; “Iran navy receives new cruise missiles amid growing regional tension,” Deccan Herald India, Dec. 24, 2023; “Scientists explore using nuclear explosions to fend off asteroids,” BGR [consumer electronics news], Dec. 24, 2023.
Ironically, supposed U.S. “concern” over a nuclear reactor in North Korea contradicts Washington’s boldly broadcast embrace and promotion of nuclear reactor construction, demonstrated most theatrically at COP28 with Biden’s declaration to “triple global nuclear capacity by 2050.”
If the United States truly has the intention to harass, condemn, and weaken North Korea, it could not do more harm to its government and its territory than to promote the hasty and widespread construction of nuclear reactors, uranium mines, and uranium fuel fabrication factories like the kind spreading cancer and immune deficiency disorders in industrialized countries.
Fighting authoritarianism? Sell radiation to dictators! The grave wave of the future.
While I appreciate the use of the ‘propaganda poster’ as criticism of nuclear war, I think the caption used with it is hugely misleading. I would hope that the audience of this news source understands that the image Nukewatch provided is a re-creation inspired by a poster from General Motors in 1942. The original from 1942 says, “It can happen here, Unless we keep em firing,” and instead of a nuclear weapon, it has fighter planes depicted.
By using the caption, “WWII propaganda poster by General Motors. You too can purchase a screen-printed T-shirt version still today,” it makes it seem as if the original propaganda poster made by GM is the one you have shown on this webpage. I am all for the use of satire and criticism to make a point, but when we use captions like the one provided without being historically accurate, it feels dishonest.
I hope you can understand the point I am attempting to make. Thank you for your time!
William T. Wiley, had paintings w/ a ‘dunce’ facing inward into a corner of the room. He was encapsulated in words on canvas, very real & really funky. Might have said: the USA boomers grew-up w/ war-armaments being loaded, again and again for missions to kill on North Korea, as only 4.5-million Koreans would be genocided, and we-Boomers never met their people. We boomers now have that same fleeting, why were they killed and their country decimated? What kind of untoward empire has our elites/military not had to become, so that pretenses could never ameliorate an answer that we never tried diplomacy, so that our diplomacy could Fail!