Thursday, 25 April , 2024

New York Times

Creating Enemies, Preparing Wars: The New York Times disseminates ridiculous accusations...

Just read the following article published by the New York Times. The newspaper send it to its subscribers under the title Breaking News In Computer...

Did the US Plan a First 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.