Posting links in other subs pointing to specific submissions or comments here is subject to a ban, depending on context. Other image posts are subject to removal at moderators discretion.ħ. Titles and comments with an excess of caps lock, bold text, large fonts, text colors, exaggerated punctuation and other attention-seeking devices will be removed.Ħ. ![]() Address the argument not the user, the mods, or the sub. List of Proven Conspiracies wiki /r/Conspiracy Discord Server Rules of Reddit: Ģ. Our goal is to create a fairer and more transparent world for a better future. Please respect other views and opinions, and keep an open mind. This is a forum for free thinking and for discussing issues which have captured your imagination. ![]() Theory - a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain somethingĬonspiracy Theory - a hypothesis that some covert but influential organization is responsible for a circumstance or event “What’s the point of working with the Democrats when they fire anyone who doesn’t please the Republicans? Unless congressional Democrats come to life, Biden’s nuclear posture review is going to look exactly like Trump’s.”Ī defence department spokesman said the Pentagon had nothing to add to its previous account of Tomero’s departure.Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful “Leonor Tomero was fired and is now being blackballed because those of us on the outside are complaining,” said Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. However, Tomero has not been offered another job in the administration, according to her friends. The assistant secretary of defence Mara Karlin assured Markey that Tomero had not been dismissed. The Pentagon insisted that her job had been eliminated as part of a bureaucratic reorganisation and that she would be given another role. One of the controversies plaguing the Pentagon’s drafting of the NPR was the abrupt removal in September of the woman in charge of the process, Leonor Tomero, who had raised questions about the cost of the GBSD programme, raising the ire of senior Republicans in Congress. “We would not have agreed to do this study if we had believed it was not a genuinely useful piece of work.” “What we are doing is to tee up options and identify critical questions for further study, and to do that we are trying to engage a genuinely wide range of expertise,” Acton said. ![]() James Acton, the co-director of the CEIP’s nuclear policy programme, said the project was not intended as a substitute for a thorough study, based on classified data, of the cost and feasibility of a Minuteman III life extension. “But the proof will be in the pudding whether the Pentagon gives the president options to boldly reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our defence strategy – or if it defies the president’s guidance.” “And so it is a box-ticking exercise with no particular influence.”Ĭommenting on the administration’s approach to drafting its nuclear weapons policy, Senator Markey said: “I’m pleased that the Biden administration says it is committed to listening to voices outside of the nuclear weapons confederacy that advocate an unnecessary and wasteful $1.2tn in upgrades. “Their response was: ‘Well, we promised we would reach out to a number of constituencies, different people with different views’,” one participant said. ![]() In the first Carnegie session, some of the participants asked Pentagon officials what the point of the exercise was, if its conclusions would come too late to influence the posture review. However, by the time the Carnegie Endowment delivers its report, in late January, the NPR is due to be delivered to the White House, raising questions on whether its findings will have any influence on decisions about the future nuclear arsenal. “The department has … tasked the Carnegie Endowment to conduct an external study of diverse views on the intercontinental ballistic missile leg of the nuclear triad to inform the NPR,” Markey was told. The role of the CEIP was laid out in a letter from Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defence for policy, to the Democratic senator Ed Markey, and a series of Pentagon responses to Markey’s follow-up questions about the NPR. Arms control advocates fear that Biden will not keep his pledge to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in US defence planning, and that the president will be boxed in by a set of options drawn up by nuclear hawks in the Pentagon in the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR).
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