{"id":375928,"date":"2018-09-03T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T11:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/declassified-docs-reveal-how-the-pentagon-aimed\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T11:11:46","slug":"declassified-docs-reveal-how-the-pentagon-aimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/declassified-docs-reveal-how-the-pentagon-aimed\/","title":{"rendered":"Declassified Docs Reveal How the Pentagon Aimed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Plans for a nuclear war devised by the US Army in the 1960s considered decimating the Soviet Union and China by destroying their industrial potential and wiping out the bulk of their populations, newly declassified documents show.<\/p>\n

A review of the US general nuclear war plan by the Joint Staff in 1964, which was recently\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0by George Washington University\u2019s National Security Archive project, shows how the Pentagon studied options\u00a0\u201cto destroy the USSR and China as viable societies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The review, conducted two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, devises the destruction of the Soviet Union\u00a0\u201cas a viable society\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by annihilating 70 percent of its industrial floor space during pre-emptive and retaliatory nuclear strikes.<\/p>\n

A similar goal is tweaked for China, given its more agrarian-based economy at the time. According to the plan, the US would wipe out 30 major Chinese cities, killing off 30 percent of the nation\u2019s urban population and halving its industrial capabilities. The successful execution of the large-scale nuclear assault would ensure that China\u00a0\u201cwould no longer be a viable nation,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the review reads.
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The Joint Staff had proposed to use the\u00a0\u201cpopulation loss as the primary yardstick for effectiveness in destroying the enemy society with only collateral attention to industrial damage.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0This\u00a0\u201calarming\u201d\u00a0<\/em>idea meant that, as long as urban workers and managers were killed, the actual damage to industrial targets\u00a0\u201cmight not be as important,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>the George Washington University researchers said.<\/p>\n

The 1964 plan doesn\u2019t specify the anticipated enemy casualty levels, but \u2013 as the researchers…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Plans for a nuclear war devised by the US Army in the 1960s considered decimating the Soviet Union and China by destroying their industrial potential and wiping out the bulk of their populations, newly declassified documents show. A review of the US general nuclear war plan by the Joint Staff in 1964, which was recently\u00a0published\u00a0by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}