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May 16, 2010
Negligent
I gather there are people shocked to learn the Soviet Union planned a nuclear attack on China in 1969. Swayed by the Americans, they didn't attack China.
But this is the actual shocking news.
The historian claims that Washington saw the USSR as a greater threat than China and wanted a strong China to counter-balance Soviet power. Then US President Richard Nixon was also apparently fearful of the effect of a nuclear war on 250,000 US troops stationed in the Asia-Pacific region and still smarting from a Soviet refusal five years earlier to stage a joint attack on China's nascent nuclear programme.
They could have stopped the spread of atomic weapons and chose not to. So much for civilization. We will get precisely what we deserve; millions dead in a fire lit by chanting Persian maniacs.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 16, 2010 11:44 AM