NATO Nuclear DrillsTo Begin Monday Featuring B-52 Bombers

Beginning Monday, NATO will kick off its annual nuclear deterrence exercise known as Steadfast Noon. U.S. Air Force B52 bombers are among the aircraft slated to participate in the event, which will be carried out over northwestern Europe and the North Sea.

Moscow is also projected to hold its own annual nuclear exercises any day now. There are called ‘’Grom’’, and what exactly these could look like is unclear under the current circumstances.

U.S. officials have said that Grom will likely include test launches of ballistic missiles and other routine “large-scale maneuvers of its strategic nuclear forces.” Either way, ensuring that the United States can discern any evaluatory nuclear exercises occurring in Russia from real threats will be critical.

To add to the uncertainty surrounding Russia’s Grom exercises, it has been widely reported that Russian strategic bombers had been spotted flying close to the Norwegian border.

Satellite imagery showed an increased presence of long-range strategic bombers, including TU 160s and Tu 95s, at the Russian Olenya Air Base on Norway’s Kola Peninsula.

According to the NATO announcement, air forces from across the alliance’s member countries will fly dozens of aircraft to exercise their nuclear deterrence capabilities starting on Monday, October 17, and continuing until Sunday, October 30.

NATO has also made it a point to emphasize that Steadfast Noon is a routine, annual training activity and that it is not at all linked to any current world events and noted that no live weapons would be used during the exercise.

The only NATO-member states with organic nuclear weapons capabilities are the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Beyond that, under the NATO nuclear sharing arrangements, B61 nuclear gravity bombs are housed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands and can be employed by their respective tactical jet aircraft.

Non-strategic NATO combat jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons include the F-15E, F-35, F-16, and Tornado.

In a Tuesday press briefing, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg outwardly told reporters that canceling Steadfast Noon would send a “very wrong message,” essentially insisting that strengthening the NATO alliance will be the best tactic to avoid escalating the situation beyond its current status.

James 1:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

James 1:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Luke 21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.

Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and diseases; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

Revelations 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

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