{"id":292514,"date":"2017-01-31T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-evaluating-nuclear-attack-on-russia-china\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T13:07:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:07:21","slug":"us-evaluating-nuclear-attack-on-russia-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-evaluating-nuclear-attack-on-russia-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US evaluating nuclear attack on Russia, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US intelligence agencies are working with the country\u2019s military forces to update previous assessments about a possible nuclear attack against Russia and China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conducted by the Pentagon\u2019s Strategic Command and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the study is trying to find out whether the Russian and Chinese leadership could survive a nuclear strike and keep operating, Stars and Stripes reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Championed by Republican Representative Michael Turner, the study drew bipartisan support in Congress and was passed before the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, who has expressed willingness to reshape ties with both China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The findings of the study, which was one of the little-noticed provisions of the 2017 Pentagon budget, would provide a complete evaluation of Moscow and Beijing\u2019s \u201cleadership survivability, command and control and continuity of government programs\u201d in case of an attack.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170131\/a1ddc2ca-695b-4d4a-82fd-892fade9adde.jpg\"\/><figcaption>A US Air B-52&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/31\/508523\/Pentagon-Russia-China-nuclear-attack-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US intelligence agencies are working with the country\u2019s military forces to update previous assessments about a possible nuclear attack against Russia and China. Conducted by the Pentagon\u2019s Strategic Command and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the study is trying to find out whether the Russian and Chinese leadership could survive a nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}