World war 3 now imminent

[RSoles]

Going to have to look out all that training they put me through.

Oh yes, here it is.... "Reserved occupation! Reserved Occupation!"

[greenlake]

<ZG in "Wear your mushrooms with pride" mode>

Looking good....

[darryle]

This is terrible news. This might just induce the Russians to start bombing the sh*t out of Syria........oh wait a minute!!

This isn't surprise me because Russia and Turkey had an issue before regarding shooting incident of turkey military on one Russia military jet. Since then retaliation between this two country didn't stop.

[mudskipper]

Russian military plane crashes in Black Sea near Sochi - BBC News

Merry Christmas.

[BrilloPad]

'It would be worse than a nuclear bomb': Allied troops and ISIS to battle for collapsing Mosul Dam that would spew out 4.4MILLION Olympic size swimming pools of water if it breaches | Daily Mail Online

[OwlHoot]

'It would be worse than a nuclear bomb': Allied troops and ISIS to battle for collapsing Mosul Dam that would spew out 4.4MILLION Olympic size swimming pools of water if it breaches | Daily Mail Online

On the plus side, I guess the Iraqi marsh people would be pleased to have their environment back, which Saddam pinched, even if the process of restoring it was probably somewhat too hasty and precipitate for comfort!

[greenlake]

Doomsday Clock expected to move closer to midnight as threat of global annihilation grows

The clock is currently running at three minutes to midnight, where 00.00 represents the end of humanity.

But the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is expected to move it forward by one minute on Thursday, the closest it has ever been to the apocalypse since 1953 when the US took the decision to upgrade its nuclear arsenal with the hydrogen bomb.

[BrilloPad]

France nuclear power: Explosion rocks Flamanville plant - BBC News

[Chuck]

France nuclear power: Explosion rocks Flamanville plant - BBC News

Isn't Flamanville where they are struggling to build the design that's going to be used at Hinkley C?

Just read the article, the answer to my question is "yes", but this wasn't the reactor involved in the incident.

[OwlHoot]

The US prepares to 'incapacitate' Kim

USS Carl Vinson carrying huge fleet of fighter jets arrives in South Korea as military sources reveal plan to 'remove' Jong-un's war chiefs

* USS Carl Vinson arrived at the southern port of Busan, in South Korea, to join the annual joint military exercise

* South Korea military source says heightened presence is part of plan to decapitate North Korean leadership

* Pyongyang has long condemned the annual joint drills - called Foal Eagle - between South Korea and the US

* Tensions have escalated with missile launches from North and assassination of Kim Jong-Un's half-brother ...

I guess "annual exercise" sounds fairly routine, but in the present fraught climate who knows?