The Hiroshima Nagasaki “Dress Rehearsal”: Oppenheimer and the U.S. War Department’s Secret September 15, 1945 “Doomsday Blueprint” to “Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map”. By Prof Michel Chossudovsky (August 9, 2024)

The Hiroshima Nagasaki “Dress Rehearsal”: Oppenheimer and the U.S. War Department’s Secret September 15, 1945 “Doomsday Blueprint” to “Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map”

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, August 9, 2024

First published on February 7, 2023

 

Author’s Introduction 

My  long-standing commitment is to “the value of human life”,  “the criminalization of  war” , “peaceful co-existence” between nation states and “the future of humanity” which is currently threatened by nuclear war.

I have been researching nuclear war for more than 20 years focussing on its historical, strategic and geopolitical dimensions as well as its criminal features as a means to implementing what is best described as “genocide on a massive scale”.  

What is presented below is a brief history of nuclear war: a succession of U.S. nuclear war plans going back to the Manhattan Project (1939-1945) leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Unknown to the broader public, the first U.S. Doomsday Blueprint of a nuclear attack directed against the Soviet Union was formulated by the US War Department at the height of World War II, confirmed by “Top Secret” documents on September 15, 1945 when the US and the Soviet Union were allies.

There is an element of political delusion and paranoia in the formulation of US foreign policy. The Doomsday Scenario against the Soviet Union has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for almost 80 years.

Had it not been for the September 1945 plan to  “wipe the Soviet Union off the map” (66 urban areas and more than 200 atomic bombs), neither Russia nor China would have developed nuclear weapons. There wouldn’t have been a Nuclear Arms Race.

Numerous US nuclear war plans have been formulated from the outset, leading up to The 1956  Strategic Air Command SAC Atomic Weapons Requirements Study (Declassified in December 2015) which consisted in targeting 1200 urban areas in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China.

The World is at a dangerous crossroads: it should be understood that the use of nuclear weapons in relation to the confrontation between US-NATO and Russia would inevitably lead to escalation and the end of humanity as we know it.  

Michel Chossudovsky, Hiroshima Day, August 6, 2024

Read more:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-nuclear-war-the-90-seconds-to-midnight-the-pentagons-1945-doomsday-blueprint-to-wipe-the-soviet-union-off-the-map/5806293

PDF: MC9.8.2024

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See also:

Hiroshima: A “Military Base” according to President Harry Truman

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, August 10, 2024

First published on August 5, 2017

https://www.globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-a-military-base-according-to-president-harry-truman-2/5602782

PDF: MC10.8.2024

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Szilárd Petition

Leo Szilard drafted the petition below to the President in the summer of 1945 attempting to avert the U.S.’s use of the atomic bomb against Japan. Although the petition was signed by seventy other scientists of the Met Lab in Chicago, it was never seen by the President or the Secretary of War before the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/szilard-petition/

PDF: Petition17.7.1947

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Report: The Origins of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto

May 1, 2005

https://pugwash.org/2005/05/01/report-the-origins-of-the-russell-einstein-manifesto/

https://pugwashconferences.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/2005_history_origins_of_manifesto3.pdf

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Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

https://pugwash.org/

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