[…] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their summary of what the documents tell us. But the declassified Soviet documents make some important corrections […]
[PDF file]: […] the CIA inserted the fatal flight. Prouty did not accept what became the official story of the U-2 shootdown: that the plane was hit by a Soviet missile at 60,000 plus feet. He believed that Power’s plane was forced to descend to where it was in range of ground-to-air missiles. Curiously, this was the […]
[PDF file]: […] CIA and FBI. Senior Eisenhower administration officials, who resented Alsop’s public derision of the President and his irresponsible scare-mongering about alleged Soviet nuclear superiority (the so-called ‘ missile gap’), looked for ways to use the material. In 1959, Attorney General William Rogers and Hoover began briefing senior government Note 33 continued sex. They set […]
[…] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their summary of what the documents tell us. 44 The View From No. 11 (London: Corgi, 1993) […]
[PDF file]: […] President Eisenhower threatened to use them in Korea, and offered them to the French in Vietnam. President Kennedy practised nuclear brinksmanship twice: the authors discuss the Cuban missile crisis, but not the equally serious crisis over NATO access to Berlin, for which the Pentagon offered a slate of nuclear options. Lyndon Johnson differentiated himself […]
[…] generates weapons sales for (mostly American) weapons corporations. Reuters reported recently that NATO member Poland was about buy the Patriot missiles: ‘Poland strike deals for US Patriot missile systems that could be worth up to $8 billion’ was the subheading to the story.3 9 To sell weapons, ‘threats’ need to be created and thus […]
[PDF file]: […] Douglas-Walter Mattheu (then) contemporary western, Lonely Are the Brave; * Kennedy meeting with the Joint Chiefs to discuss military budgets and apparently dissenting from the American nuclear missile targeting strategy of mass civilian deaths; * Kennedy touring nuclear missile bunkers in Omaha; * a black church being bombed in Alabama; * Kennedy meeting black […]
[PDF file]: […] made on 16 March, the date on which the theatre was destroyed. The attack on the theatre is presumed by Western leaders to have been a Russian missile strike, as the Ukrainian government announced soon after the incident. Russia claims that the theatre was blown up by Ukrainian troops in a ‘false flag’ attack. […]
[PDF file]: […] to serve his sentence. We had not seen each other since Dorothy’s funeral. We dined at Yenching Palace, a well-known Chinese restaurant in Washington where the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was settled by an agreement reached there over dinner by the American and Russian representatives. I asked Hunt at dinner what was the […]
[PDF file]: […] to serve his sentence. We had not seen each other since Dorothy’s funeral. We dined at Yenching Palace, a well-known Chinese restaurant in Washington where the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was settled by an agreement reached there over dinner by the American and Russian representatives. I asked Hunt at dinner what was the […]
[…] Washington Post reported on 15 March: ‘The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country’s defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast at a time of growing concern about the Stalinist regime.’ 38 Even though North Korea does not have a missile […]
