Manila Dinucci — The Bomb is Authorized

More bad news. The doomsday clock ticks closer to midnight.

The new bombs that the US is preparing to install in Italy and other European countries in the context of the escalation against Russia, are weapons that lower the nuclear threshold and by doing so, increase the probability of a nuclear attack being launched.…

Some Europeans are concerned.

As Italy has the B61-12, the F-35 and the MUOS on its territory, it will also be selected by the country attacked as a priority target for a nuclear reprisal.

Voltaire Network
The Bomb is Authorized

Manila Dinucci
Il Manifesto (Italy)
Translation Anoosha Boralessa

Ron Unz — American Pravda: Did the US Plan a Nuclear First Strike Against Russia in the Early 1960s?

Did the U.S. Military Plan a Nuclear First Strike for 1963?Heather A. Purcell and James K. Galbraith, The American Prospect, Fall 1994 

I quickly read the article and was stunned. The central document was a Top Secret/Eyes Only summary memo of a July 1961 National Security Council meeting written by Howard Burris, the military aide to then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson, which was afterward deposited in the Johnson Archives and eventually declassified. The discussion focused on the effectiveness of a planned nuclear first strike, suggesting that 1963 would be the optimal date since America’s relative advantage in intercontinental nuclear missiles would be greatest at that point. Galbraith’s student, Heather A. Purcell, had discovered the memo and co-authored the article with him, and as they pointed out, this meeting was held soon after the US military had discovered that the Soviet missile forces were far weaker than previously had been realized, leading to the plans for the proposed attack and also proving that the first strike under discussion could only have been an American one.…

Not what you were told.

The Unz Review

American Pravda: Did the US Plan a Nuclear First Strike Against Russia in the Early 1960s?

Ron Unz