{"id":67706,"date":"2006-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/06\/30\/des-nouvelles-de-divine-strake-suite\/"},"modified":"2006-06-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T00:00:00","slug":"des-nouvelles-de-divine-strake-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/06\/30\/des-nouvelles-de-divine-strake-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Des nouvelles de Divine Strake<\/em> (suite)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Des nouvelles de Divine Strake<\/em> (suite)<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s un premier d\u00e9lai obtenu juste avant l’exp\u00e9rimentation<\/a>, il semble bien que l’essai Divine Strake<\/em> soit report\u00e9 jusqu’en septembre prochain. Sur le site TomDispatch<\/em> (et Antiwar.com<\/a>), Tom Engelhardt pr\u00e9sente une r\u00e9flexion de l’activiste et auteur dissident Chip Ward<\/a> sur les myst\u00e8res de cette exp\u00e9rimentation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ward d\u00e9veloppe notamment l’argument qu’il s’agit de tester et de mesurer les d\u00e9g\u00e2ts que causerait une arme nucl\u00e9aire de petites capacit\u00e9s et\/ou une arme nucl\u00e9aire destin\u00e9e \u00e0 frapper des cibles enterr\u00e9es en profondeur. Dans tous les cas, il s’agit, selon Ward, d’une pr\u00e9paration \u00e0 l’emploi du nucl\u00e9aire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Dans son d\u00e9veloppement, Ward consacre un passage \u00e0 un point qui nous avait nous-m\u00eames int\u00e9ress\u00e9s dans le premier texte<\/a> que nous avions consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 cette exp\u00e9rimentation. Il s’agit du nom assez \u00e9trange de Divine Strake<\/em> donn\u00e9 \u00e0 l’exp\u00e9rimentation. (D’autre part, David M. Atkin nous avait donn\u00e9 aussi quelques explications, reprises dans un de nos textes d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

« Dirty Joke:<\/em><\/strong> Then there’s that name — Divine Strake. Strake, not strike, which might seem logical under the circumstances. \u00a0\u00bbStrake\u00a0\u00bb is either an obscure nautical term meaning a line of horizontal planking running the length of a ship’s hull or the aerodynamic surface mounted on the fuselage of an aircraft to control airflow. Why it has been used in this faux-nuclear context is not clear. Apparently, war planners regard the test as a platform, support, or control for something else — but what? Or maybe, consciously or not, strake is an amalgam of \u00ab\u00a0strike\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0mistake.\u00a0\u00bb Anyway, whatever one makes of \u00ab\u00a0strake,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0divine\u00a0\u00bb conveys a breathtakingly unabashed and self-righteous hubris. It’s also a clear case of linguistic bait n’ switch since there is nothing divine about slaughtering innocents or destroying whole landscapes, unless of course it is death we are worshipping and our own power to play God and decide the fates of untold numbers of people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» If we wonder how the rest of the world, especially Islamic cultures, hear these words, we have only to think how we would hear them if they were used by Iranians to describe a weapons program they were developing with the obvious purpose of targeting us. Proof of fanaticism, we would insist. Maybe we are in a holy war, after all, at least in the minds of those fashioning the weapons to fight it. While Islamacists set off car bombs and call it \u00ab\u00a0jihad\u00a0\u00bb, we prepare a simulated nuclear explosion and label it \u00ab\u00a0divine.\u00a0\u00bb The people of Utah and Nevada may be forgiven if they feel like hostages caught in the crossfire of warring zealots.<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mis en ligne le 30 juin 2006 \u00e0 14H39<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Des nouvelles de Divine Strake (suite) Apr\u00e8s un premier d\u00e9lai obtenu juste avant l’exp\u00e9rimentation, il semble bien que l’essai Divine Strake soit report\u00e9 jusqu’en septembre prochain. Sur le site TomDispatch (et Antiwar.com), Tom Engelhardt pr\u00e9sente une r\u00e9flexion de l’activiste et auteur dissident Chip Ward sur les myst\u00e8res de cette exp\u00e9rimentation. Ward d\u00e9veloppe notamment l’argument qu’il… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5274,5566,5240,3004,5275,1267],"class_list":["post-67706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-divine","tag-experimentation","tag-nevada","tag-nucleaire","tag-strake","tag-terrorisme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}