US Has Been Planning To Wipe Out Russia Since 1945
US Has Been Planning To Wipe Out Russia Since 1945
Paul Craig Roberts
An article on Sputnik by Ekaterina Blinova,
provides a history of US and British plans to
destroy the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons in the early post-World War II
years before the Soviets got the bomb and prior to President John F. Kennedy
reining in the plans to use nuclear weapons against Soviet civilian
populations. If truth be known, the Cold War was entirely a Washington
creation.
The military/security complex, against which President
Dwight Eisenhower warned the American people to no avail, has found that its
profits cannot survive the end of the Cold War and has orchestrated its
resumption. Washington has revived its plans for surprise nuclear attack on
Russia and this time on China as well. These plans are known and have destroyed
the trust among nuclear powers, leading to an even more dangerous situation
than existed during Cold War I.
The American people are not politically competent, and
they are easily brainwashed by Washington’s propaganda. It has only taken two
years for Washington’s demonization of Russia to convince hapless Americans
that Russia is the Number One Threat to the United States. This unbelievable
hogwash is constantly broadcast by the presstitute media and is now believed by a majority of the American Sheeple.
Armageddon will be the consequence.
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Was the US deterrence military doctrine aimed against
the Soviet Union during the Cold War era really "defensive" and who
actually started the nuclear arms race paranoia?
Just weeks after the Second World War was
over and Nazi Germany defeated Soviet Russia's allies, the United States
and Great Britain hastened to develop military plans aimed
at dismantling the USSR and wiping out its cities with a massive
nuclear strike.
Interestingly enough, then British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill had ordered the British Armed Forces' Joint Planning Staff
to develop a strategy targeting the USSR months before the end
of the Second World War. The first edition of the plan was prepared
on May 22, 1945. In accordance with the plan the invasion
of Russia-held Europe by the Allied forces was scheduled on July
1, 1945.
Winston Churchill's Operation
Unthinkable
The plan, dubbed Operation Unthinkable, stated that
its primary goal was "to impose upon Russia the will of the
United States and the British Empire. Even though 'the will' of these two
countries may be defined as no more than a square deal
for Poland, that does not necessarily limit the military commitment."
The British Armed Forces' Joint Planning Staff
underscored that the Allied Forces would win in the event of 1) the
occupation of such metropolitan areas of Russia so that the war
making capacity of the country would be reduced to a point
to which further resistance would become impossible"; 2) "such a
decisive defeat of the Russian forces in the field as to render
it impossible for the USSR to continue the war."
British generals warned Churchill that the "total
war" would be hazardous to the Allied armed forces.
However, after the United States
"tested" its nuclear arsenal in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
in August 1945, Churchill and right-wing American policy makers started
to persuade the White House to bomb the USSR. A nuclear strike
against Soviet Russia, exhausted by the war with Germany, would
have led to the defeat of the Kremlin at the same time allowing
the Allied Forces to avoid US and British military casualties, Churchill
insisted. Needless to say, the former British Prime Minister did not care
about the death of tens of thousands of Russian peaceful
civilians which were already hit severely by the four-year war nightmare.
"He [Churchill] pointed out that if an
atomic bomb could be dropped on the Kremlin, wiping it out, it would be a
very easy problem to handle the balance of Russia, which would be
without direction," an unclassified note from the FBI archive
read.
© REUTERS/ US ARMY
An atomic cloud billows above Hiroshima city following
the explosion of the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare in Hiroshima, in
this handout photo taken by the U.S. Army on August 6, 1945, and distributed by
the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The words written on the photo are from
the source
Following in Churchill's Footsteps: Operation
Dropshot
Unthinkable as it may seem, Churchill's plan
literally won the hearts and minds of US policy makers and military
officials. Between 1945 and the USSR's first detonation of a nuclear
device in 1949, the Pentagon developed at least nine nuclear war
plans targeting Soviet Russia, according to US researchers Dr. Michio Kaku
and Daniel Axelrod. In their book "To Win a Nuclear War: the Pentagon's
Secret War Plans," based on declassified top secret documents
obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the researchers
exposed the US military's strategies to initiate a nuclear war
with Russia.
"The names given to these plans graphically
portray their offensive purpose: Bushwhacker, Broiler, Sizzle, Shakedown,
Offtackle, Dropshot, Trojan, Pincher, and Frolic. The US military knew the
offensive nature of the job President Truman had ordered them
to prepare for and had named their war plans accordingly,"
remarked American scholar J.W. Smith ("The World's Wasted Wealth 2").
These "first-strike" plans developed
by the Pentagon were aimed at destroying the USSR without any
damage to the United States.
The 1949 Dropshot plan envisaged that the US would
attack Soviet Russia and drop at least 300 nuclear bombs and 20,000 tons
of conventional bombs on 200 targets in 100 urban areas,
including Moscow and Leningrad (St. Petersburg). In addition, the planners offered
to kick off a major land campaign against the USSR to win a
"complete victory" over the Soviet Union together with the
European allies. According to the plan Washington would start the war
on January 1, 1957.
For a long period of time the only obstacle
in the way of the US' massive nuclear offensive was that the Pentagon
did not possess enough atomic bombs (by 1948 Washington boasted an arsenal
of 50 atomic bombs) as well as planes to carry them in. For
instance, in 1948 the US Air Force had only thirty-two B-29 bombers
modified to deliver nuclear bombs.
In September 1948 US president Truman approved a
National Security Council paper (NSC 30) on "Policy on Atomic
Warfare," which stated that the United States must be ready to
"utilize promptly and effectively all appropriate means available,
including atomic weapons, in the interest of national security and
must therefore plan accordingly."
At this time, the US generals desperately needed
information about the location of Soviet military and industrial
sites. So far, the US launched thousands of photographing overflights
to the Soviet territory triggering concerns about a potential Western
invasion of the USSR among the Kremlin officials. While the Soviets
hastened to beef up their defensive capabilities, the military and
political decision makers of the West used their rival's military buildup
as justification for building more weapons.
Meanwhile, in order to back its offensive
plans Washington dispatched its B-29 bombers to Europe during the
first Berlin crisis in 1948. In 1949 the US-led North Atlantic Treaty
Organization was formed, six years before the USSR and its Eastern
European allies responded defensively by establishing the
Warsaw Pact — the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual
Assistance.
© AP PHOTO/ FILE
The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at
Trinity Test Site, New Mexico. July 16, 1945
Soviet Nuclear Bomb Test Undermined US Plan
Just before the USSR tested its first atomic
bomb, the US' nuclear arsenal had reached 250 bombs and the Pentagon came
to the conclusion that a victory over the Soviet Union was now
"possible." Alas, the detonation of the first nuclear bomb
by the Soviet Union dealt a heavy blow to US militarists' plans.
"The Soviet atomic bomb test on August 29,
1949 shook Americans who had believed that their atomic monopoly would last
much longer, but did not immediately alter the pattern of war
planning. The key issue remained just what level of damage would force a
Soviet surrender," Professor Donald Angus MacKenzie of the University
of Edinburgh remarked in his essay "Nuclear War Planning and
Strategies of Nuclear Coercion."
Although Washington's war planners knew that it would
take years before the Soviet Union would obtain a significant atomic
arsenal, the point was that the Soviet bomb could not be ignored.
© AP PHOTO/ DIMITRI MESSINIS
The Scottish researcher highlighted that the US was
mainly focused not on "deterrence" but on "offensive"
preemptive strike. "There was unanimity in 'insider circles' that the
United States ought to plan to win a nuclear war. The
logic that to do so implied to strike first was inescapable," he
emphasized, adding that "first strike plans" were even represented
in the official nuclear policy of the US.
Remarkably, the official doctrine, first announced
by then US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in 1954,
assumed America's possible nuclear retaliation to "any" aggression
from the USSR.
US' Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP)
Eventually, in 1960 the US' nuclear war plans
were formalized in the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP).
At first, the SIOP envisaged a massive simultaneous
nuclear strike against the USSR's nuclear forces, military targets,
cities, as well as against China and Eastern Europe. It was planned
that the US' strategic forces would use almost 3,500 atomic warheads
to bomb their targets. According to US generals' estimates, the
attack could have resulted in the death of about 285 to 425
million people. Some of the USSR's European allies were meant to be
completely "wiped out."
"We're just going to have to wipe it
[Albania] out," US General Thomas Power remarked at the 1960 SIOP
planning conference, as quoted by MacKenzie.
However, the Kennedy administration introduced significant
changes to the plan, insisting that the US military should avoid targeting
Soviet cities and had to focus on the rival's nuclear forces alone.
In 1962 the SIOP was modified but still it was acknowledged that the
nuclear strike could lead to the death of millions of peaceful
civilians.
© EAST NEWS/ UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL
IMAGES GROUP
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22,
1963), 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his
assassination in 1963
The dangerous competition instigated by the US
prompted Soviet Russia to beef up its nuclear capabilities and
dragged both countries into the vicious circle of the nuclear arms
race. Unfortunately, it seems that the lessons of the past have not
been learnt by the West and the question of the
"nuclearization" of Europe is being raised again.
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