Nukes: I'll Keep Mine
Ha, something for you to think about.
The United States has again come up upon the international scene preaching international nuclear disarmament. This is one of a long line of attempts at ridding the world of nuclear arms. The first attempt at the elimination of nuclear weapons happened in the beginning of the first nuclear era with the Baruch plan in 1946, just after the bomb itself was invented during the Truman presidency. Russia would not have anything to do with this treaty as long as the US possessed weapons, and this sparked the nuclear arms race. Since then, nuclear technology has spread to many countries. Proceeding the Baruch plan was the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, which most of the world's countries have signed; those that did not went and acquired their own weapons. It has been mildly accepted that nuclear war is prevented by nuclear weapons themselves, but now Barack Obama, to the sound of international applause takes the shepherd's cane attempting to lead us into a zero nuke world. But those who understand the way nuclear weapons work, including Obama, know that this attempt is futile.
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He seems to be blaming the Soviets, our WW II allies, for the cold war arms race. People like Robert Oppenheimer were pushed out of important US nuclear research agencies because they were against building hydrogen bombs and nuclear weapons proliferation in general. Cold war hawks wanted nuclear scientists who were friendly to the idea for more nuclear weapons and the overall plan for the US military expansion and technological imperialism. What followed the incinerations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were decades of nuclear weapons overkill and mutually assured madness.
The arms race is now with areas of science, I believe, referred to as nanotechnology and neuroscience. And like the west had some idea of what Hitler's nazis were up to in the ten years leading up to WW II, while at the same time not realizing just how much steel and weapons production was happening in secret Russian factories - I think China may have secret research and development labs for the development of leading edge weapons technology. And I could be wrong.
I don't know if it's blame, it was America who pushed the initial ban on nuclear weapons but were of course not going to follow suit. When the Russians ignored this initial proposition that is when the arms race began. Sure it was American action, but Russian reaction. Takes two to tango, we all know that.
The cold war actually began when the Soviets, our WW II allies, realized that their former enemies were spying on them. The OSS(CIA) and Brits basically reconstructed Himmler's SS to run the spy ops out of West Germany after the war.
And some cold war experts blame Truman for undermining FDR's and Stalin's post-war pledges for peace and East-West co-operation in order to foment frosty relations with the USSR. The military-industrial complex would need a legitimate enemy for a long time in order to blackmail American taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars in public spending every year.
Gore Vidal once described a US General who frequented cocktail parties of the rich and famous around the world during the cold war era. The military General was constantly threatening wealthy people with the possibility that the red menace would put a stop to their way of life at the top of the heap.