Pentagon preparing for war

Generals in the US Pentagon are said to already be gearing up for war – whoever wins the US Presidential election. For some time they are reported to have been advocating a pre-emptive nuclear strike against China and Russia before technology renders their defence systems completely useless. The Russians have already demonstrated their capacity to disable defence and navigational systems on sophisticated US warships. Both China and Russia have developed stealth missiles capable of evading detection and current anti-missile systems. Russia has built a prototype hypersonic stealth bomber which can fly at five times the speed of sound and go anywhere in the world within two hours.

Nine countries currently have total stockpiles of over 15,000 nuclear weapons. The United States and Russia regularly deploy about 1,800 of them ready to be launched within minutes by missiles or aircraft. Complementary to nuclear warheads, the US, Russia, China and several other countries have substantial arsenals of thermobaric bombs which have enormous explosive impact in localised areas. They work by utilising the oxygen in air surrounding the explosion – effectively sucking oxygen out of the air, killing everyone in the area. It's not known how many of these weapons have been made but it is understood that many thousands have been stockpiled and they have been used to deadly effect n the Middle East wars. Most thermobaric weapons currently used by the US and Russia are in the form of bombs dropped by fleets of aircraft or as shoulder-launched grenades. The Chinese models are believed to be bombs and missile warheads.