OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #210, JANUARY 1, 2025
Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-210-january-1.html HOPE FOR NEW YEAR TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Noam Chomsky and Nathan Robinson, The Myth of American Idealism: How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World. 2024. Pp. 207-9. The US Began the Nuclear Threatening and Race for Nuclear Superiority.“The United States began developing plans for potential nuclear attacks against the Soviet Union years before the Soviets had nuclear weapons of their own. . . .The Truman administration did not hesitate to use nuclear weapons as a means of diplomatic coercion.” Chomsky and Robinson, pp. 208-9 (I have quoted C&R verbatim but have arranged their text […]