First nuclear strike

This is not the first time the presence of American nuclear weapons in Turkey has been part of a crisis. By: Matthew Wills October 28, 2019 Fifty...

25 Apr, 2018 Washington has failed to live up to its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Russia's Foreign Ministry concluded, citing the US nuclear...

By Jeffrey Edmonds February 6, 2018 The Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review calls for expanding nuclear options to include low-yield nuclear weapons. While there may be...

07.02.2018 Washington's Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) 2018 is a double-edged doctrine, as it seeks to prevent North Korea from assertive actions, but could at the...

By Philip M. GIRALDI 26.01.2018 On Friday, the Pentagon released an unclassified summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy report. On the same day, Secretary of Defense...

By Gilbert Doctorow Editor’s note: Gilbert Doctorow is a historian, political analyst and expert in Russian affairs going back to 1965. A graduate of Harvard...

America had first Contemplated Nuclear War against both China and North Korea in 1950 By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, October 16, 2017 In 1950, Chinese volunteer...

UK risks being ‘wiped off the map with nuclear counterstrike’ – Russian senator The UK, which recently said it could launch a preemptive nuclear strike...

I quickly read the article and was stunned. The central document was a Top Secret/Eyes Only summary memo of a July 1961 National Security Council meeting written by Howard Burris, the military aide to then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson, which was afterward deposited in the Johnson Archives and eventually declassified. The discussion focused on the effectiveness of a planned nuclear first strike, suggesting that 1963 would be the optimal date since America’s relative advantage in intercontinental nuclear missiles would be greatest at that point.