Re: Defusing a Nuclear Nightmare

On Sat, 07 May 2005 22:02:03 -0500, C. B. <legalguru@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>FYI
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>Defusing a Nuclear Nightmare PDF
>Playthell Benjamin
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>After the successful exploding of the first atomic bomb in the desert
>of New Mexico - where scientists working on the super secret
>?Manhattan Project? based at the Los Alamos weapons laboratory had
>produced this technological monster - Dr. Albert Einstein, the world?s
>most distinguished scientist, observed that everything in the world
>had changed?except the character of human beings.
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>This was a chilling revelation, because it meant that the same flawed,
>ego-driven homo sapiens that had waged countless wars inspired by
>greed, land hunger and the will to power, now had the power to destroy
>the world. Which means that a psychology which was sufficient for
>human survival when we were fighting with bows and arrows, or muskets
>and cannons, or even tanks, airplanes, and battleships, would no
>longer be sufficient to insure the survival of human beings in the
>atomic age.
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> Von Clauswitz?s legendary laws of war no longer applied, because he
>saw war as an extension of politics, and politics is the art of the
>possible. Now the supreme enemy became war itself, because a war
>between nuclear powers will yield no winners. Thus victory in atomic
>warfare is impossible!
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>The decision of the US government to use atomic weapons against the
>Japanese in 1945, the greatest assault on a civilian population in
>history ? 9/11 pales in comparison.
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> ? It was a deadly manifestation of the arrogance of American power,
>and speaks poignantly to Dr. Einstein?s warning 60 years ago. Dropping
>the Atomic bomb on Japan set off a nuclear arms race that is cause for
>great anxiety all over the world today.
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>Most Americans however are in denial, and I believe this is because
>the consequences of nuclear war are so frightening that they just tune
>it out and simply refuse to inform themselves on the subject.
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>This willful ignorance explains why the peoples who reside in the
>nations that stockpile atomic weapons don?t take to the streets
>en-masse in protracted demonstrations demanding that their governments
>take the lead in banning the bomb.
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> And there is no population that bears a greater responsibility for
>petitioning their government to lead the world in nuclear disarmament
>than the citizens of the United States!
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>This historical responsibility falls squarely upon us because the
>nuclear menace that imperils the fate of the earth is wholly an
>American invention ? as was germ warfare when American scientists
>first weaponized germs at Fort Dietrich. I feel the responsibility to
>fight for nuclear disarmament acutely, because I once served in the
>Strategic Air Command, which was, at the time, America?s premiere
>nuclear strike force.
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>Therefore I have a thorough knowledge of the unimaginable horrors
>nuclear war will bring. Assigned to Combat Defense and given a ?Top
>Secret? security clearance, I became a member of the force whose
>mission was the physical defense of the Strategic Air command base to
>which I was stationed.
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>Always heavily armed, our duties consisted of physically securing the
>Atomic weapons stockpiles from which we armed the bombers, the bombers
>themselves, and manning and securing the complex electronic systems in
>Central Security Control, the command center from which a world-wide
>alert to America?s nuclear forces could originate or be received.
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>The Mission of our base, which was located on the ?DEW,? or Distance
>Early Warning Line,? up on the Canadian Border, was the nuclear
>annihilation of the Soviet Union. Then we were using manned bombers
>to deliver the payload, today the world can be turned into burned out
>radio active pile of rubble within half an hour from now.
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> So unlike those who have buried their heads in the sand, I know too
>much to hide. I am ever aware of the disasters that lurk on the
>nuclear horizon.
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>I have no doubt that the automatons who are trained to push the
>buttons will launch on command; I know there was a time when I would
>have. They have been well trained to perform this doom?s day task. I
>was in the Strategic Air Command when it was a led by General Curtis
>LeMay, who served as a model for the crackpot ?General Jack T.
>Ripper,? who starts a nuclear war in the frightening classic movie
>?Dr. Strangelove:
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>How I Came to Love the Bomb.? It was a paranoid existence, because
>they had us thinking that Russian spies and saboteurs were everywhere.
>I was young and dumb, had grown up with atomic bomb drills, was highly
>patriotic the way southerners tend to be, and thus I didn?t question
>anything they told us ? at first!
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>By convincing us that we were in imminent danger of being overrun by
>the evil communists ? aided by a poster of a menacing looking Russian
>leader, Nikita Khrushchev, pointing his finger straight at you from
>all angles, with the caption ?We will bury you!? ? our officers
>convincingly indoctrinated us into the belief that a nuclear attack on
>the Soviet Union was a reasonable thing to contemplate.
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>But once I began to attend classes about the destructive power of the
>nuclear payloads carried by the B-52 bombers on the base ? which the
>instructors proudly pointed out made the unspeakably horrible bombs
>our nation dropped on Japan look like mere firecrackers ? I began to
>strongly suspect that the whole thing was madness, especially since
>they had previously shown us official Strategic Air Command films of
>the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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> Over four decades later I still think it?s madness! I also think
>that it is up to us, the enlightened American citizenry, to elect a
>government with a mandate to lead the world in a great awakening that
>will put an end to this madness before it?s too late. That is the
>greatest honor we can pay to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who
>became guinea pigs for an American experiment with atomic weapons.
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>Anyone who is naïve enough to believe that race had nothing to do with
>it, that it made no difference that the Japanese were Asians rather
>than Europeans, should hurry up and read Dr. Gerald Horne?s recent
>book on the war for control of the Pacific, ?Race War!?
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>One of our finest contemporary historians, Professor Horne presents
>voluminous evidence regarding the terror white Americans felt at the
>rising power of colored Japan in a world dominated by nations
>committed to ?white supremacy,
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>? especially the Anglo-Saxons of Briton and the United States.
>Consulting official government documents, newspaper clippings, and
>personal papers of important government officials, Horne recounts
>white America?s hysteria at signs of a growing diplomatic relationship
>between Japan and Mexico ? a country the Anglos had repeatedly bullied
>and robbed.
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>In numerous statements white Americans made it abundantly clear that
>they would not tolerate a military alliance between these two
>?colored? nations. And Dr. Horne meticulously documents the fact that
>the Japanese certainly saw their participation in World War II as a
>struggle against white supremacy!
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>Whatever the official lip service given to racial equality in
>America?s anti-Nazi propaganda ? which led many white Americans, but
>by no means all, to root for Joe Louis against the German boxer Max
>Schmeling - the real U.S. position on the question of racial equality
>between the world?s races is summed up in a candid quote from
>President Harry Truman. ?I think one man is as good as another so long
>as he is honest and decent and not a *** or a Chinaman.
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> Uncle Will?does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race
>prejudice I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion that Negroes ought
>to be in Africa, yellow men in Asia, and white men in Europe and
>America.? Remember, this is the man who gave the command to drop the
>atomic bomb on Japan!
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> And even he was forced to restrain the rage of General Douglass
>McArthur, who wanted to use nuclear weapons against China when the war
>in Korea was going badly several years later.
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> Hear! Hear! mon frere!
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> Thus there is no more ridiculous spectacle in the world
>today than the hysterical cries of the Bush Administration railing
>against Iran or North Korea who may be building a bomb or two, while
>the American nuclear arsenal houses thousands of nuclear bombs, and
>our military has the ability to strike targets with precision anywhere
>in the world within minutes.
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>And they have demonstrated their willingness to use them against
>non-Europeans. This awesome power was designed to blackmail the rest
>of the world into submission to America?s will, particularly the
>?Third World.?
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> In a typical example of white American hubris, the architects of this
>policy of nuclear intimidation never imagined that nuclear technology
>would spread to other nations in the world and come back to haunt us.
>But it has. And what?s more those of us who live in major cities must
>now worry about somebody planting one of those fifteen suitcase nukes
>that are missing from the Russian arsenal.
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>Those who built and deployed atomic weapons against Japan, along with
>their apologists, have always argued that this was a noble act, a
>necessity of war. While an argument can certainly be made for building
>the bomb, mainly the warnings from émigré? European scientists like
>Dr. Einstein that the Germans were on the way to discovering the
>secrets of atomic fission, the justification for bombing Japan is
>another matter entirely.
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> As far as I am concerned the slightest possibility that Adolph
>Hitler could have acquired the bomb first was reason enough for
>Americans to build the bomb. But given what we now know about what
>America and her allies knew regarding the condition of Japan in 1945,
>and the willingness of America?s Russian allies to invade Japan with
>her armies stationed in China, the evidence clearly shows that
>Truman?s alibi that he dropped the bomb on Japan in order to spare the
>lives of American soldiers is a self-serving lie!
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>There is compelling evidence that Truman?s closest advisors had ruled
>out other avenues to peace, against the advice of more level headed
>professional analysts in the military and State Department. The
>breadth and gravitas of this evidence is beyond the scope of this
>commentary, but a search on Google.com will reveal a wealth of
>information on this subject, providing compelling evidence of Truman?s
>criminal folly.
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> But now, in some strange cosmic turn of fate, the threat of nuclear
>annihilation hangs over our heads, and we?ve got a pugnacious
>ignoramus in the White House who is trying to destroy the few
>safeguards that presently exist against accidental nuclear holocaust,
>by unilaterally abrogating the ABM Treaty and openly proposing to
>manufacture tactical nuclear bombs for use in risky military conflicts
>where American forces could suffer great casualties ? such as a land
>war in Asia.
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>But isn?t that the same rationale Truman used to drop atomic bombs on
>the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? No wonder the North Koreans are
>nervous and feel that they must build their own nuclear arsenal as
>deterrence to American aggression.
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>Furthermore Condoleezza Rice, AKA ?Madam Hawk,? and the neo-con gang?s
>insistence that American scientists be permitted to inspect top secret
>nuclear weapons sites in Russia, while denying reciprocal privileges
>to the Russian scientists on American soil, insults Russian national
>pride and is certain to result in a less stable nuclear environment.
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> That?s why we must restrain these devils who would burn up the world
>in their quest for global domination. We must rise up and stop the
>madness! Mao Tse Tung, who led the great revolution that transformed
>China, the world?s most populous nation, from a backward semi-feudal
>society to a modern world power, once called the atomic bomb a ?Paper
>Tiger,? and predicted: ?The atomic bomb will not destroy mankind,
>mankind will destroy the Atomic bomb.
>
>? With atomic bombs proliferating everywhere the odds seem stacked
>against us, yet we must struggle to make sure Chairman Mao was right.
>Nothing less than the fate of the earth hangs on the outcome.
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>10 Stars Excellent, factual article **********
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>White people must act now to stop the madness of their ethnic group,
>or the entire planet including them will perish.
>
> Just one of those things that make you go hummmm.
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>
>Who deserves to be impeached and imprisoned the most?
>A president receiving face from an adult willing female?
>
>Or a president who lies to over four people
>worldwide and then orders the attack and destruction
>of hundreds of thousands of innocents, 1,600 American
>GI'S killed and over 25,000 permanently disfigured?


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