By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
February 1, 2023
90 Seconds to Midnight according to the Doomsday Clock. The Nobel Peace Laureates are casually blaming Russia, without recalling the history of nuclear war, not to mention Joe Biden's 1.3 trillion dollar program to develop "more usable", "low intensity" "preemptive nuclear weapons" to be used on a "first strike basis" against both nuclear and non nuclear states as a means of "self defense".
Let us recall the history of the "doomsday scenario" which was part of America's Manhattan project launched in 1939 with the support of Britain and Canada.
The Manhattan Project was a secret plan to develop the atomic bomb coordinated by the US War Department, headed (1941) by Lieutenant General Leslie Groves.
Prominent physicist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer had been appointed by Groves to head the Los Alamos Laboratory (also known as Project Y) which was established in 1943 as a "top-secret site for designing atomic bombs under the Manhattan Project". Oppenheimer was entrusted in recruiting and coordinating a team of prominent nuclear scientists including Italian Physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Enrico Fermi who joined the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1944.
Oppenheimer not only played a key role in coordinating the research, he was also engaged in routine consultations with the head of the Manhattan project Lieutenant General Groves, specifically with regard to the use of the first atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Below is the Transcript of an August 6, 1945 telephone conversation, declassified (Between Gen.G and Dr. O) in the immediate wake of the Hiroshima bombing, screenshot below, click link to access complete transcript)
The September 15, 1945 Blueprint to "Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map"
Barely two weeks after the official end of World War II (September 2, 1945), the US War Department issued a blueprint (September 15, 1945) to "Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map" (66 cities with 204 atomic bombs), when the US and the USSR were allies. This infamous project is confirmed by declassified documents. (For further details see Chossudovsky, 2017)
Below is the image of the 66 cities of the Soviet Union which had been envisaged as targets by the US War Department.
The 66 cities. Click image to enlarge
The Hiroshima Nagasaki "Dress Rehearsal"
The preparatory documents (see below) confirm that the data pertaining to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks were being used to evaluate the viability as well as the cost of a much larger attack against the Soviet Union. These documents were finalized 5-6 weeks after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings (6, 9 August 1945).
Note the correspondence between Major General Norstad and the head of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves:
On September 15, 1945 Norstad sent a memorandum to Lieutenant Leslie Groves requesting an estimate of the "number of bombs required to ensure our national security" ( The First Atomic Stockpile Requirements)
Lieutenant General Groves responded to Norstad in a Memorandum dated September 29, 1945 in which he refers to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
See section 2, subsections a, b and c.
"It is not essential to get total destruction of a city in order to destroy its effectiveness. Hiroshima no longer exists as a city even though the area of total destruction is considerably less than total."
Read carefully. The text below confirms that Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a Dress Rehearsal. Bear in mind the name of the country which is threatening America's "national security" is not mentioned.
The 1949 "Dropshot Plan": 300 Nuclear Bombs, Targeting More than 100 Soviet Cities
Numerous US war plans (under the Truman presidency) to attack the Soviet Union were "formulated and revised on a regular basis between 1945 and 1950". Most of them were totally dysfunctional as outlined by J.W. Smith in his book entitled "The World's Wasted Wealth 2".
"The names given to these plans graphically portray their offensive purpose: Bushwhacker, Broiler, Sizzle, Shakedown, Offtackle, Dropshot, Trojan, Pincher, and Frolic. The US military knew the offensive nature of the job President Truman had ordered them to prepare for and had named their war plans accordingly"
Dr. Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod in their book entitled:
"To Win a Nuclear War: the Pentagon's Secret War Plans,"
provides evidence (based on declassified documents) that the September 1945 blueprint was followed by a continuous plan by USG to bomb the Soviet Union (as well as Russia in the post-Cold War era):
"This book [preface by Ramsey Clark] compels us to re-think and re-write the history of the Cold War and the arms race... It provides a startling glimpse into secret U.S. plans to initiate a nuclear war from 1945 to the present."
The September 1945 Blue Print (66 Cities) was followed in 1949 by another insidious project entitled the Dropshot Plan:
According to Kaku and Axelrod, the 1949 DropShot consisted of a plan directed against the Soviet Union to "drop at least 300 nuclear bombs and 20,000 tons of conventional bombs on 200 targets in 100 urban areas, including Moscow and Leningrad (St. Petersburg). According to the plan Washington would start the war on January 1, 1957."
The Dropshot Plan was formulated prior to Russia's August 1949 announcement pertaining to the testing of its nuclear bomb.
The Cold War List of 1200 Targeted Cities
The initial 1945 list of sixty-six cities was updated in the course of the Cold War (1956) to include some 1200 cities in the USSR and the Soviet block countries of Eastern Europe ( see declassified documents below). The bombs slated for use were more powerful in terms of explosive capacity than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Excerpt from list of 1200 Soviet cities targeted for nuclear attack in alphabetical order. National Security Archive, op. cit.
The Bulletin: Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists in September 1945
In a bitter irony, in the immediate wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 in Chicago by Manhattan Project scientists, who had been involved in the development of the atomic bomb.
Two years later, in 1947, The Bulletin devised the Doomsday Clock, "with an original setting of seven minutes to midnight".
The initiative was formulated at a time when there was no arms race: There was only one nuclear weapons state, namely the USA, which was intent upon carrying out a Doomsday scenario (genocide) against the Soviet Union formulated in September 1945.
In 1947, when the Doomsday Clock was created, the "justification" which was upheld by The Bulletin was that:
"the greatest danger to humanity came... from the prospect that the United States and the Soviet Union were headed for a nuclear arms race."
The underlying premise of this statement was to ensure that the US retain a monopoly over nuclear weapons.
While in 1947, "The Plan to Wipe the Soviet Union of the Map" was still on the drawing Board of the Pentagon, the relevant documents were declassified thirty years later in 1975. Most of the former Manhattan project scientists were not aware of the September 1945 blueprint against the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union emerged as a nuclear power in August 1949, two years after the launching of the Doomsday Clock, largely in view of applying what was later entitled "deterrence", namely an action to discourage a nuclear attack by the US. At the height of the Cold War and the Arms Race, this concept eventually evolved into what was defined as "Mutually Assured Destruction".
While several authors and scientists featured by The Bulletin have provided a critical perspective concerning America's nuclear weapons program, there was no cohesive attempt to question the history nor the legitimacy of the Manhattan Project.
The broader tendency has been to "erase history", sustaining the "rightfulness" of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while also casually placing the blame on Russia, as well as China and North Korea.
Nuclear War versus the "Imminent Dangers of CO2"
In the last fews years, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists "seeks to provide relevant information about nuclear weapons, climate change, and other global security issues".
According to Mary Robinson, Chair of The Doomsday Clock Elders and former President of the Republic of Ireland (2023 statement):
The Doomsday Clock is sounding an alarm for the whole of humanity. We are on the brink of a precipice.... From cutting carbon emissions to strengthening arms control treaties and investing in pandemic preparedness, we know what needs to be done.... We are facing multiple, existential crises. Leaders need a crisis mindset. (emphasis added)
CO2 is casually put forth as a danger to humanity comparable to nuclear war.
The Doomsday Clock is now said to "represent threats to humanity from a variety of sources" according to a collective of Nobel Prize Laureates.
What nonsense.
Presenting C02 or Covid as a danger comparable to nuclear war is an outright lie. Its intent is to mislead public opinion. It is part of a rather unsubtle propaganda campaign which provides legitimacy to the US doctrine of first strike "preemptive nuclear war", i.e. nuclear war as a means of "self-defense".
What is of concern is that U.S. decision makers including Joe Biden believe in their own propaganda, that a preemptive first strike nuclear war against Russia is "winnable". And that tactical nuclear weapons are "instruments of peace".
Meanwhile history is erased. America's persistent role in developing "a Doomsday Agenda" (aka genocide) since the onslaught of the Manhattan Project in 1939 is simply not mentioned.
What is of concern is that there is a continuous history of numerous projects and WWIII scenarios to "Wiping Russia off the Map" and triggering a Third World War.
Nuclear war against Russia has been embedded in US military doctrine since 1945.
The original source of this article is Global Research.