13-07-2012, 07:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-07-2012, 01:55 AM by Adele Edisen.)
I was a student in the College of the University of Chicago in the late 1940s. The first controlled atomic fission was done underneath Stagg Field, an athletic field named for Alonzo Stagg, the famous football coach, formerly at the University. Dr. Enrico Fermi was the leader of the team which performed this atomic splitting that led to the first atomic bomb. He was one of my physics professors because he insisted on teaching undergraduates, and not only graduate students. There were many physists and chemists on campus who had worked on the Manhattan Project, and I remember hearing about the sense of guilt many of them had in feeling responsible for the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The United States was the first country to use nuclear bombs to attack civilian populations and did so without warning. Japan was preparing to surrender at the time.
Why would anyone assume that the Russians would not attack us at that time of the Cold War, and especially after our President was killed by a (supposed) communist? It was all that President Kennedy could do to control his military generals when he was still alive from shooting off missles at Russia and China and bombing Cuba, initiating a nuclear war, WWIII.
Some months ago I posted an article on this when Kennedy shut down the missle silos that were actually being prepared and ready to do this. There was a movie, "Twilight's Last Gleaming" which may have been based on this event, released in 1978, starring Burt Lancaster as a former Brigader General with two commando accomplices, Paul Winfield and Burt Young, who seize control of a missile base and threaten to release nine missiles. Charles Durning, Richard Widmark, Melvyn Douglas, Vera Miles, and Joseph Cotton also star in the film.
It was not so much the fear that the Russians would do the first strike, but that we would provoke them with some false flag operation, as far as many of us were concerned. We did not know of the opening of communications by Krushchev with Kennedy in 1961 which led to the back door correspondence between Krushchev and Kennedy. Neither one wanted an atomic war. It was their resolutions and agreements that made us all a bit safer. The Nuclear Non-Prolifration Treaty and similar agreemets are still in effect.
Yet after the atomic bomb came the more powerful hydrogen bomb. and as if that wasn't enough, the neutron bomb which could destroy living things, but leave buildings intact. There is no limit to the human imagination and production of methods of destruction.
As the little cartoon character, Pogo, said: "We have met the enemy and it is US."
Adele
Why would anyone assume that the Russians would not attack us at that time of the Cold War, and especially after our President was killed by a (supposed) communist? It was all that President Kennedy could do to control his military generals when he was still alive from shooting off missles at Russia and China and bombing Cuba, initiating a nuclear war, WWIII.
Some months ago I posted an article on this when Kennedy shut down the missle silos that were actually being prepared and ready to do this. There was a movie, "Twilight's Last Gleaming" which may have been based on this event, released in 1978, starring Burt Lancaster as a former Brigader General with two commando accomplices, Paul Winfield and Burt Young, who seize control of a missile base and threaten to release nine missiles. Charles Durning, Richard Widmark, Melvyn Douglas, Vera Miles, and Joseph Cotton also star in the film.
It was not so much the fear that the Russians would do the first strike, but that we would provoke them with some false flag operation, as far as many of us were concerned. We did not know of the opening of communications by Krushchev with Kennedy in 1961 which led to the back door correspondence between Krushchev and Kennedy. Neither one wanted an atomic war. It was their resolutions and agreements that made us all a bit safer. The Nuclear Non-Prolifration Treaty and similar agreemets are still in effect.
Yet after the atomic bomb came the more powerful hydrogen bomb. and as if that wasn't enough, the neutron bomb which could destroy living things, but leave buildings intact. There is no limit to the human imagination and production of methods of destruction.
As the little cartoon character, Pogo, said: "We have met the enemy and it is US."
Adele