U.S. Secretary of Defense Meets with Rogue Nuclear Commanders to Discuss Armageddon

MINOT-BARKSDALE, THE FORGOTTEN MUTINY

IN AUGUST 2007, AT LEAST 6 NUCLEAR WARHEADS WERE STOLEN FROM MINOT AIR FORCE BASE IN NORTH DAKOTA. THE MOMENT THEY WERE LOADED, THEY DISAPPEARED FROM AMERICA’S NUCLEAR INVENTORY, “LOCATION UNKNOWN,” SOMETHING THAT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. THERE IS NO POSSIBLE “MISINTERPRETATION” OF ORDERS, NO MISTAKE, NO “WRONG LABEL” ISSUE. THESE WEAPONS WERE STOLEN, PURE AND SIMPLE.

The story behind this is below and it is important now because it is starting all over again. The West Point Mafia, all from the “bad apple” Class of 1986 that RDS talks about so much, is on the move again, this time it isn’t Iran they are planning to nuke, but all of us.

This is the cover story, the background, what is being brought back to life, is in the 2011 story from VT:

Sputnik, Moscow: US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper paid a visit on Wednesday to a remote US nuclear base in North Dakota and will later meet with US Strategic Command leaders in Nebraska, including critics of the Pentagon’s pace for modernizing its nuclear arsenal. Meanwhile, new budget proposals would set aside billions for expanding the nuclear triad.

Esper paid a visit to the remote Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, just 40 miles south of the US-Canada border, where he met with airmen from the US’ nuclear bomber and missile arsenals to “gain a first-hand understanding” of the only US base to house two of the nuclear triad’s three wings, as well attending as a town hall in nearby Minot, according to a DoD release. The third part of the triad, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), couldn’t be further away from the prairies of the North American interior.

Esper is just the second Pentagon chief to visit the base, following a 2008 visit by then-Secretary Robert Gates, the Minot Daily News noted.

Replacing Aging Systems

Minot is home to the 5th Bomber Wing and 91st Missile Wing, which between them have two squadrons of B-52H Stratofortress bombers armed with nuclear gravity bombs, and 150 LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles scattered in silos across an area roughly the size of Massachusetts.
Both weapons are showing their age: the B-52 entered service in the early 1950s, with the youngest aircraft built-in 1962, and the Minuteman IIIs entered service in 1970. The Pentagon has long planned to phase both systems out in the coming years, but the colossal expense of replacing them has been an imposing obstacle.
In early 2019, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration completed a 20-year-long overhaul of the US Navy’s submarine-based nuclear warheads, and former US President Barack Obama began a $1.5 trillion modernization of the entire nuclear arsenal in 2010.

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Global Thunder is an annual U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) exercise designed to provide training opportunities to test and validate command, control and operational procedures.

Some of the more recent expenses in that hefty bill include a new command center ($7 billion), a new stealth bomber ($2.8 billion), a new ballistic missile submarine ($4.4 billion), a new cruise missile delivery system ($474 million) and a new ICBM ($1.5 billion), according to budget requests made by the Pentagon for fiscal year 2021.

On top of that is $20 billion in new warheads, $20 billion for missile defense and $6 billion set aside for environmental cleanup. Together, the proposed nuclear spending in fiscal year 2021 comes to $75 billion, or 10% of the entire military budget, according to William D. Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy think tank.

Following Esper’s visit to Minot will be a trip southward to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska – the home of US Strategic Command – which will “include leadership meetings and an overview of the new Command and Control Facility,” as well as another town hall, the DoD release notes.

The Washington Examiner noted that Adm. Charles Richard, who commands US nuclear forces, will be among those present at Offlut. Richard has been outspoken in his criticism of complacency toward the question of nuclear modernization, telling the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that he was “concerned that the oft-repeated message of the need to modernize and recapitalize has lost its impact, and that collectively we have underestimated the risks associated with such a complex and time-constrained modernization and recapitalization effort.”

Critics Point to Increased Danger of War

However, the expansive US nuclear arsenal, which numbers more than 5,000 nuclear weapons, also has its critics as Pentagon strategy returns to “Great Power competition” with Russia and China.

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Minuteman III test launch, 1994

In August, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty officially lapsed, permitting the legal construction of land-based missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,000 kilometers by Russia and the US. The 1987 treaty aimed to ease tensions caused by US nuclear missiles deployed to Europe that were capable of reaching Moscow in just eight minutes, greatly increasing the risk of an accidental nuclear response.

US President Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a smaller version of the W76 nuclear warhead, for which Democratic lawmakers attempted to block funding. The W76-2 entered service earlier this month, with an estimated yield of 5 kilotons, or one-third the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
In addition, in June 2019, the Joint Chiefs of Staff accidentally published a document titled “Nuclear Weapons: Planning and Targeting,” which argued for the limited use of nuclear weapons to win a conventional conflict.

“Employment of nuclear weapons can radically alter or accelerate the course of a campaign,” the document notes, a copy of which was preserved by the Federation of American Scientists. “A nuclear weapon could be brought into the campaign as a result of perceived failure in a conventional campaign, potential loss of control or regime, or to escalate the conflict to sue for peace on more favorable terms. The potential consequences of using nuclear weapons will greatly influence military operations and vastly increase the complexity of the operational environment.”

Minot, Barksdale, the Forgotten Mutiny

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor, September 9, 2011

By 2006, rogue groups in the military, including members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, top Republican members of Congress, the Israeli lobby and most of the National Security Council had decided that Bush was a weakling, his brain addled from years of drugs, alcohol and the continual mumbling he referred to as “praying.”

Attempts to bring about the scheduled invasion of Iran, set in motion by General Petraeus in 2005, had failed. The coup attempt staged by the Air Force at Minot AFB, the seizure of a load of H bombs had been caught, those involved “accident” and the Air Force, from then on no longer given any direct nuclear authority.

Two elections had been rigged to get Bush into office.  9/11, years in the planning, complex demolitions, radio-controlled aircraft, SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) weapons developments, our biggest weapons secrets, were used to flatten the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

This could all have happened years before if the removal of Clinton had been allowed to succeed, attempts to tie him to CIA drug running and then the “Lewinsky affair.” As early as 1981, the elder Bush tried it too, 69 days into the Reagan presidency, John Hinckley, a mind control (MK Ultra) asset of the Bush CIA had tried to murder Reagan

SOON AFTER HIS ELECTION, PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS WARNED THAT IF HE DID WHAT HE KNEW HE MUST, JAIL AT LEAST 200 TRAITORS, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, AT LEAST 3 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND TOP OFFICIALS OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND PENTAGON, HE WOULD NEVER HAVE A PRESIDENCY.

The economy had been gutted and he was told the CIA and military would kill his entire family if he interfered in their drug cartel, which controlled not only Afghanistan, a war he had to keep going forever, but Mexico as well, a border that would be kept open at all costs.

What had happened was simple. The CIA had always been in the drug business, long before Oliver North and Iran Contra, long before George H.W. Bush and the ‘Golden Triangle.’

The games Wall Street and the banksters were allowed to play, emptying the markets, collapsing the banks, gutting the dollar, few in the CIA or military understood them though they stole trillions.

The CIA and military and key leaders of congress saw the easy money, drug money, rendition flights filled with heroin, trucks filled with ecstasy and cocaine flowing in from Mexico while the infrastructure of gangs, starting with Arizona and New Mexico, California had long become ‘other than America,” would quickly spread across the United States, buying up local governments in communities from South Carolina to Maine to Idaho.

ALL THAT WAS NEEDED WAS AN OPEN BORDER, THE MONEY WAS THERE TO BUY THAT EASILY, THE CIA’S COVER TO MOVE DRUGS AND MONEY AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE GUISE OF THE “GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR” AND THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD SWORN TO END, TO GO ON FOREVER.

Opium fields would give way to heroin processing, a private air force of Defense Department and CIA contractors to move the product and a sea of diplomats and members of Congress to move the money, using their immunity and the ability to transfer billions using paper financial instruments.

Standby Letters of Credit, that went from Dubai to Zurich inside a wallet like a wrapped condom.

What his advisors told him, some at least, is that unless President Obama were to press criminal charges against those tied to 9/11, not just torture and rendition, not falsified intelligence or election rigging, we mean exactly what is said, 9/11 itself, where the FBI had half its evidence, and, at the same time, remove all “Dominionist traitors” (their terminology), those working with General Jerry Boykin and Vice President Cheney, including the contractors of Blackwater, Xe, Dyncorp and other companies, it would be impossible to function as a free nation.

They still held more than one nuclear weapon stolen during the Minot/Barksdale episode and at least two more from the South African stocks that Israel held, initially we have found, on Northern Cyprus, in partnership with members of Turkey’s armed forces.

MINOT-BARKSDALE, THE FORGOTTEN MUTINY

IN AUGUST 2007, AT LEAST 6 NUCLEAR WARHEADS WERE STOLEN FROM MINOT AIR FORCE BASE IN NORTH DAKOTA. THE MOMENT THEY WERE LOADED, THEY DISAPPEARED FROM AMERICA’S NUCLEAR INVENTORY, “LOCATION UNKNOWN,” SOMETHING THAT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. THERE IS NO POSSIBLE “MISINTERPRETATION” OF ORDERS, NO MISTAKE, NO “WRONG LABEL” ISSUE. THESE WEAPONS WERE STOLEN, PURE AND SIMPLE.
DISCUSSIONS OF INDIVIDUAL COMMANDERS HAVING AUTHORITY TO DEPLOY WEAPONS, STORIES OF ACCIDENTS, CONFUSION OR POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS WITHIN THE AIR FORCE ARE “RED HERRINGS.” NOTHING IS MORE CONTROLLED, MORE SECURE, MORE RESTRICTED, MORE CLASSIFIED, MORE PROTECTED THAN THE NUCLEAR ARSENAL OF THE UNITED STATES. HOWEVER, ON THAT FATEFUL DAY IN 2007, A HALF DOZEN OR MORE HYDROGEN BOMBS WERE PLUCKED OUT OF A SECURE BUNKER WITH NO PAPERWORK, NO ORDERS, NOTHING.

THIS IS THE MILITARY. PEOPLE ARE JAILED FOR LOSING FLASHLIGHT BATTERIES. THEY WERE LOADED INTO THE WEAPONS BAY OF A B-52 LONG RANGE BOMBER FOR TRANSPORT TO PLACES UNKNOWN, FOR PURPOSES UNKNOWN. THE PLANE HAD NO ORDERS, WAS PART OF NO MISSION, OPERATED UNDER NO LEGAL COMMAND STRUCTURE, IN FACT, THE MOMENT THE WEAPONS WERE LOADED, WAS NO LONGER AN AMERICAN PLANE AT ALL.
A MISSION, EVEN UNDER THE MOST INNOCENT POSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS STAFF, CERTAINLY THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF AND LIKELY THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AS WELL, SEEMS TO HAVE AUTHORIZED ITSELF, OUT OF “THIN AIR.” THOUGH THE PLANE LATER LANDED AT BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE IN LOUISIANA, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THIS AS THE INTENDED DESTINATION, FAR FROM IT.

THE THEFT, HIJACKING, YOU PICK THE TERM, THESE ARE THE BEST TWO SO FAR, HAPPENED OUTSIDE THE COMMAND AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, CONTRAVENING ALL PROTOCOLS FOR THE STORAGE, HANDLING AND DEPLOYMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THE INCIDENT WAS ALSO A VIOLATION OF TREATIES REQUIRING AMERICA TO SAFEGUARD HER STOCKPILE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, NOT JUST FROM ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS BUT, AS WITH THIS INCIDENT, FROM A MUTINY BY MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY AND CIVILIAN BRANCHES OF OUR GOVERNMENT, ACTING OUTSIDE AUTHORITY, ACTING AS CIVILIANS, AN ACT OF PIRACY, MUTINY, AN ACT OF INSURRECTION.

ALL THE THINGS ISRAEL WARNS AMERICA ABOUT EVERY DAY, RADICAL GROUPS IN IRAN AND PAKISTAN GETTING CONTROL OF NUKES REALLY HAPPENED, BUT NOT WITH MUSLIM RADICALS AND NOT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, IT HAPPENED HERE AT HOME. THE RADICALS WERE CHRISTIANS, OF A SORT AT LEAST, POSSIBLY INTENT ON ARMAGEDDON, MAYBE PLANNING TO SELL THE WEAPONS TO IRAN OR NORTH KOREA OR, MORE LIKELY, TUCKING THEM AWAY FOR “A RAINY DAY.” THE MINOT-BARKSDALE “INCIDENT” DEMONSTRATED, NOT ONLY THAT A SECRET GOVERNMENT EXISTS BUT IT IS CAPABLE OF WAGING, NOT ONLY FOREIGN POLICY BUT OF MOUNTING A CREDIBLE THERMONUCLEAR THREAT TO THE WORLD.

A “NOT SO COINCIDENTAL” COINCIDENCE

WHEN A PLANELOAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS HIJACKED BY AN EXTREMIST ORGANIZATION TIED TO THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF POWER IN AMERICA, WE MIGHT ASK, WHY THEN? WHAT WAS GOING ON IN AMERICA IN AUGUST 2007? DID SOMETHING HAPPEN THEN? WHY WERE 6 NUCLEAR WEAPONS STOLEN AT THE EXACT SAME TIME AMERICA SUFFERED THE LARGEST FINANCIAL COLLAPSE, BECAME THE VICTIM OF THE LARGEST FINANCIAL CRIME IN WORLD HISTORY? IS THIS A COINCIDENCE?

WE KNOW THESE THINGS FOR SURE:

•THIS WAS THE 11TH HOUR, THE LAST MINUTES OF THE 11TH HOUR, THE LAST CHANCE TO BEGIN A WAR WITH IRAN. IRAQ HAD BEEN TEMPORARILY “STABILIZED” BY MASSIVE BRIBES PAID OUT UNDER GENERAL PETRAEUS’ “SUNNI AWAKENING” PROGRAM, A ‘BAND-AID’ FIX THAT WOULD SOON COME APART, AFGHANISTAN HAD BECOME A HOPELESS QUAGMIRE AND THE PUBLIC HAD TURNED ON PRESIDENT BUSH, GIVING HIM THE LOWEST APPROVAL RATINGS OF ALL TIME, LEAVING HIS PRESIDENCY FAILED AND DISCREDITED.

•WHAT HAD BEGUN AS A MINOR MORTGAGE CRISIS HAD REVEALED A DEEPER DISEASE, THE “TOXIC DERIVATIVES” SCHEMES THAT WOULD COLLAPSE AMERICA’S ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM. ONLY 5% OF THE MISMANAGED FUNDS WERE MORTGAGE RELATED, 95% WAS A MASSIVE PONZI SCHEME BY “BANKS” THAT HAD TAKEN TO CREATING WEALTH OUT OF THIN AIR, UNDERWRITING THE ENTIRE AMERICAN ECONOMY, BOND AND STOCK MARKETS, CORPORATE EARNINGS, PENSION PLANS, ALL BACKED BY NOTHING AT ALL. THE MONEY MOST AMERICANS THOUGHT THEY HAD WASN’T EVEN THE “COUNTERFEIT” TRASH SPEWED BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE. IT WAS, IN FACT, IMAGINARY, SOON TO BE GONE, “POOF!” HOW COULD 6 NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PROVIDING THIS WAS THE ONLY THEFT, SOMETHING WE MAY NEVER LEARN, BE USED TO COVER THE CRIMES OF AMERICA’S ENTIRE FINANCIAL COMMUNITY? WHAT USE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WOULD HAVE CHANGED THE PUBLIC’S PERCEPTION, A PUBLIC INCREASINGLY SUSPICIOUS OF THE OTHER GREAT COINCIDENCE OF ALL TIME, 9/11? WERE WEAPONS TO BE TAKEN OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY TO ATTACK OTHERS OR TO BE BROUGHT BACK, A CONTAINER IN A SEAPORT, A VENDING MACHINE IN A STADIUM, ATOP A MISSILE, BROUGHT HOME? FOR YEARS, THE FRONT MEN FOR THE SECRET GOVERNMENT, THE ONES EASILY RECOGNIZED, HAD DONE LITTLE BUT PREPARE AMERICA FOR SUCH AN EVENTUALITY. WITH $12 TRILLION DOLLARS “MISSING,” WOULD THE INCINERATION OF AN AMERICAN CITY BE ENOUGH?

The real threats were dramatic. The transition team for Obama had more than enough evidence from “friendly” members of the 9/11 Commission. The world then, even without the “slam dunk” proof that Building 7 and the Pentagon missile attack have provided was simple enough. NORAD was on stand down.

Our satellite-based air defense system, no, it hadn’t been “radar’ as claimed for over 20 years, had been disabled or its data destroyed. It sees all planes, flying, landing, who is in planes, how hot the engines are, can even pick up irregular handling and course issues not tied to turbulence.

Our real system has nothing to do with RADAR or what is seen on TV, this is fiction. Our real defenses are space-based, can defend against, not only planes but cruise type missiles launched from submarines and even multiple warheads using sophisticated deception technology on ballistic missiles.

IF AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOT SWERVES LIGHTING A CIGARETTE IN THE COCKPIT WHILE FLYING FROM LOUISVILLE TO WHEELING, NORAD KNOWS IT, MAYBE EVEN WHAT BRAND.
The cover story given now, the recent leaks, just prior to the 9/11 10th anniversary are telling. Former CIA director and Defense Secretary Gates is now describing the enmity between Obama, Biden, and Netanyahu. We now understand why millions in Zionist money, the Koch brothers cabal, and the Mossad have been working so hard with neocons to brand Obama a socialist, a Muslim and even foreign-born.

Then the Koch brother hired “storytellers” to invent tales of Obama and the Chicago “Gay bathhouse scene,” stories carried by assets seldom exposed by anything this outlandish, folks usually used for “phony leaks” from imaginary “intelligence sources.”

This is, if anything, the most outrageous act thus far and every attempt was made to sell it.

When Obama, who had no private military capability of his own, no “hit squads” such as the GOP has with Blackwater, the threats against his family were real.

He could in no way retaliate or he and those close to him would suffer the same fate as John Wheeler III, a victim of street crime or Wisconsin Senator Paul Wellstone, who, with his entire family, was murdered in a staged plane crash.

WITH GOP/PENTAGON/CIA ROGUE MUSCLE TO RENT, THE INSURANCE AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY, “CLEAN COAL” AND NUCLEAR POWER COULD SUDDENLY ORDER “HITS” LIKE ON THE SOPRANOS, COULD AND, WERE WE TO LOOK MORE CAREFULLY, DO.

If 3000 people could be murdered on 9/11 without the blink of an eye, the daughter of a president could be given cancer just as easily.

The holes in 9/11, not just the ‘no plane hit the Pentagon’ issue but how planes disappeared from radar and nobody noticed, the failure to address that is epic. Planes weren’t on the radar, not for security.

They were watched by satellite, optical, synthetic aperture radar and infrared sensors, dozens of satellites whose algorithms watched them land, watched them unload, perhaps watched them replaced or simply repackaged for sale to Taiwan, a ‘rumor’ much less rumor than fact.

Those same satellites may well have watched the deaths of passengers, poison gas, pistol executions, bodies trucked to incinerators nearby. Too graphic for you?

If a plane hit the Pentagon, satellite footage showing every inch of its travel in resolution capable of counting the rivets exists, as does synthetic aperture radar capable of telling you what kind of wristwatch each passenger wore.

What do you think we spend our billions on?

Remember, many years ago, when Gorbachev was nearly overthrown but the CIA gave him no warning. Remember him saying, “The CIA can read license plates in Moscow and they couldn’t see armored divisions closing in on the capitol?”

This was decades ago.

If you find Obama a disappointment, perhaps you might remember, a few months ago, when he spoke of how difficult he found ‘asserting control’ over the Washington bureaucracy he inherited.

We, years ago, remember Mrs. Clinton telling us of a great conspiracy against the presidency. We were advised by TV talking heads to take these pronouncements as conspiracy theories.

These were blisters, those little areas where pus comes to the surface and the rot inside begins to seep out.
IN A STATEMENT A YEAR AGO, CIA DIRECTOR LEON PANETTA STATED, ALMOST CRYPTICALLY, THAT “NO ONE HAD HEARD ANYTHING FROM OSAMA BIN LADEN SINCE LATE 2001.”
Similarly, Panetta and Gates over the past 2 years have declared the real strength of Al Qaeda, an organization many claims to be totally bogus in the first place, is down to “a dozen or less.”

What we have seen is the rise of a political movement meant to restore constitutional authority, authority that ended under Bush, authority Obama has proven too fearful to oppose, a movement that, instead, enslaved itself to, not only continuing the abuses of authority it said it opposed but set about dismembering the checks and balances the Obama administration put in place to stop economic piracy that had occurred during the Bush regime.

These are, perhaps, the only signs of there having been an Obama presidency at all, this and the hatred Israeli extremists have for President Obama whose public pronouncements of love for Israel put his own loyalty in question by many.

What still exists is JSOC, an extra-governmental organization of contractors, professional military free of the command structure, of “freebooters” in uniform operating illegally inside the United States and around the world, accused of war crimes by dozens of nations.

Because of JSOC and its sister groups in the CIA and Homeland Security, few members of the Bush administration can travel outside the US at all. In fact, former President Bush has barely escaped war crimes arrests in both Switzerland and Canada.

Still, the billions flow, the heroine drowns the world, the cartels infiltrate every American town, our standard of living plummets and the government is increasingly incomprehensible or would be except for the occasional epithet such as this.

Gordon Duff

Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.

Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.

Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.

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