{"id":253538,"date":"2018-09-03T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=253538"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:15:26","slug":"declassified-docs-reveal-how-pentagon-aimed-to-nuke-ussr-and-china-into-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/declassified-docs-reveal-how-pentagon-aimed-to-nuke-ussr-and-china-into-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Declassified docs reveal how Pentagon aimed to nuke USSR and China into oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They still think about it and would not hesitate one second if Russia and China didn\u2019t have now enough nuclear weapons to completely destroy the USA in a counter-attack\u2026 That\u2019s why nuclear proliferation is a key to world peace. No superiority = no war. When all leaders realize that a war would inevitably lead to total Humanity destruction, then that may lead eventually to complete demilitarization and world peace.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Plans for a nuclear war devised by the US Army in the 1960s considered decimating the Soviet Union and China by destroying their industrial potential and wiping out the bulk of their populations, newly declassified documents show.<\/p>\n

A review of the US general nuclear war plan by the Joint Staff in 1964, which was recently published by George Washington University\u2019s National Security Archive project, shows how the Pentagon studied options \u201cto destroy the USSR and China as viable societies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The review, conducted two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, devises the destruction of the Soviet Union \u201cas a viable society\u201d by annihilating 70 percent of its industrial floor space during pre-emptive and retaliatory nuclear strikes.<\/p>\n

A similar goal is tweaked for China, given its more agrarian-based economy at the time. According to the plan, the US would wipe out 30 major Chinese cities, killing off 30 percent of the nation\u2019s urban population and halving its industrial capabilities. The successful execution of the large-scale nuclear assault would ensure that China \u201cwould no longer be a viable nation,\u201d the review reads.<\/p>\n

The Joint Staff had proposed to use the \u201cpopulation loss as the primary yardstick for effectiveness in destroying the enemy society with only collateral attention to industrial damage.\u201d This \u201calarming\u201d idea meant that, as long as urban workers and managers were killed, the actual damage to industrial targets \u201cmight not be as important,\u201d the George Washington University researchers said.<\/p>\n

The 1964 plan doesn\u2019t specify the anticipated enemy casualty levels, but \u2013 as the researchers note \u2013 an earlier estimate from 1961 projected that a US attack would kill 71 percent of the residents in major Soviet urban centers and 53 percent of residents in Chinese ones. Likewise, the 1962 estimate predicted the death of 70 million Soviet citizens during a \u201cno-warning US strike\u201d on military and urban-industrial targets.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon continues to rely heavily on nuclear deterrence, and \u2013 just like in the 1960s \u2013 the US nuclear strategy still regards Russian and Chinese military capabilities as main \u201cchallenges\u201d faced by Washington. The latest Nuclear Posture Review, adopted in February, outlined \u201can unprecedented range and mix of threats\u201d emanating from Beijing and Moscow. The document, which mentions Russia 127 times, cites the modernization of the Russian nuclear arsenal as \u201ctroubling\u201d for the US.<\/p>\n

The existing nuclear strategy also allows the US to conduct nuclear strikes not only in response to enemies\u2019 nuclear attacks, but also in response to \u201csignificant non-nuclear strategic attacks\u201d on the US, its allies and partners.<\/p>\n

The newest US Nuclear Posture Review was heavily criticized by Russia and China. Moscow denounced the strategy as \u201cconfrontational,\u201d while Beijing described the Pentagon\u2019s approach as an example of \u201cCold-War mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/437432-us-declassified-nuclear-plans\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: They still think about it and would not hesitate one second if Russia and China didn\u2019t have now enough nuclear weapons to completely destroy the USA in a counter-attack\u2026 That\u2019s why nuclear proliferation is a key to world peace. No superiority = no war. When all leaders realize that a war would inevitably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":328776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}