|
|
June 19, 2013
|
|
|
|
 Nixon Thought About Nuking North KoreaPosted on Jul 7, 2010
Just after a U.S. spy plane was shot down in 1969, President Nixon appears to have ordered nuclear bombers to prepare to attack targets in North Korea, but he quickly changed his mind. More extensive plans (one with the Bush-esque name of “Freedom Drop”) for nuclear strikes on as many as 16 North Korean targets were also devised. Take a look at the documents related to this story over at the National Security Archive.
Advertisement TAGS:
|
Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change
Email 
Print
Share
Email to a friend
Newsletter 
Like Us
Follow Us
Get Our Feed
Tags|Bazaar|Podcast|About Us|Contact Us|User Agreement|Privacy Policy|FAQ: Comments and Moderation | Google+
© 2013 Truthdig, LLC. All rights reserved.
By samosamo, July 8, 2010 at 11:23 am Link to this comment
****************
Report thisSo now we have o and his izraeli handlers juicing to nuke Iran
for no real good reason just as w decided to carry out the
invasion of the sovereign country of Iraq on no good real reason
and down right big fat lies.
By Can O Whoopass, July 8, 2010 at 11:18 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
Bush wanted to nuke Iraq because Saddam insulted his Day-dee.
Report thisBy Jean Gerard, July 8, 2010 at 11:14 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
What kind of thinking is present in a statement like this?
“One thing about a nuclear detonation—it forces renewal?
Not one bit of pity for tens of thousands who were burned to death or doomed to
suffer years of lingering sicknesses.
As far as I am concerned, this “superbly ignorant” writer can take his “Tribeca
Report thisrehab” and stuff it!
By Blackspeare, July 8, 2010 at 10:35 am Link to this comment
We have an irrational fear of nuclear weapons——they’re really efficient in wiping out large areas of infrastructure and the associated inhabitants. A good example is the fire bombing of Dresden during the last months of WW II——-took too many sorties and bombs when a single well placed altitude-detonated nuclear weapon would have done the same thing. Hiroshima and Nagasaki took a direct hit and they eventually recovered with an even better infrastructure and city. One thing about a nuclear detonation——it forces renewal. You have to see New York City around the Trade Center——it took 9/11 to forge a Tribeca rehab and it is superb——of course to live there you have to be superbly wealthy!
Report thisBy felicity, July 8, 2010 at 10:08 am Link to this comment
And Truman fired MacArthur because, among other things, MacArthur advocated, and would carry out given half a chance, nuking China.
It’s a good thing that Nixon wasn’t in the White House when MacArthur was general.
Report this