The U.S. military revealed a top-secret plan to drop 870 atomic bombs on 117 cities in China? Nuclear war used to be so close to us! The nuclear threat of the United States has not been abandoned!
And what exactly is this nuclear program all about? Why did the United States dare to enact such a plan in defiance of the world's opposition? Next, let's look at this strategy of "massive retaliation" developed during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Since the birth of the atomic bomb, nuclear ** has become a well-deserved absolute violence ** in human history, which is not only reflected in the destructive power of nuclear weapons, but also in a series of extremely bad consequences caused by nuclear radiation brought by it.
The first atomic bomb used in war in human history was the "Little Boy" dropped by the U.S. military on Hiroshima, Japan during World War IILater, according to the data, more than 100,000 Japanese died in the bombing on the day of the atomic bomb, and in the following week** gradually reached about 300,000.
The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and the resulting nuclear radiation have affected the normal life of Hiroshima people until now, and even in the modern era when the medical system is extremely developed, there are news of deformed babies born in the Hiroshima area due to nuclear radiation. ”
Therefore, as the first country in the world to master this "weapon of mass destruction", there is no doubt that the heart is extremely inflated, and for a long time after the end of World War IIThe United States has always had a monopoly on nuclear weapons technology and has kept it tightly closed.
During the Korean War, MacArthur often arrogantly clamored for a nuclear strike on New China, and MacArthur also specially formulated a "no man's land plan" for this purpose, that is, to use the dumping of nuclear waste to create a nuclear-contaminated area on the Sino-Korean border, so as to completely cut off the back route of the volunteers.
However, this plan was unanimously opposed, including by Truman, because they did not want to involve the Soviet Union in the war, so Ridgway later succeeded MacArthur as commander-in-chief of the American forces in the Far East.
However, this does not mean that the United States has given up the use of nuclear weapons, but it has greatly increased the degree of "fanaticism" of the United States for nuclear weapons, especially Truman's successor, Eisenhower, who himself is a staunch nuclear weapon.
So during his tenure, in order to counterbalance the expansion of the Soviet Red regime and the threat from Chinese mainland,At his behest, the US Department of Defense developed a strategy of "mass retaliation".
On December 22, 2015, the eve of Christmas in the West, the first atomic bomb of New China was revealed, and the U.S. Archives Bureau revealed a top-secret plan that had been sealed for half a century - a large-scale retaliation strategy.
The immediate purpose of this plan was to use nuclear weapons to bomb socialist countries led by the Soviet Union, including satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe, and Chinese mainland.
In 1954, the first year after the Korean Armistice, the new U.S. Secretary of State Dulles said in a public speech in New York that "in the face of a communist invasion, the nations of the free world will immediately choose the way we have to retaliate."
This statement was a concrete manifestation of Eisenhower's "nuclear threat" strategy, which in 1956 the U.S. Department of Defense developed a retaliatory plan.
Massive retaliation strategy plan During the war between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States would use 3,500 atomic bombs to bomb the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Chinese mainland.
On the route from Moscow to Beijing,There are more than 1,200 scheduled bombing targets, including 117 targets in Chinese mainland, and a total of 870 atomic bombs will be dropped!
These selected targets can be said to have comprehensively covered all the heavy industrial cities and economically developed areas in New China at that time, including Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin, Shenyang, Dalian, Qinhuangdao, etc., and the political, economic, and industrial centers of New China were all listed as nuclear targets.
It is not difficult to imagine that once the United States successfully implements this plan, the newly established New China will be in ruins!
The confidence of the United States in daring to formulate this plan lies in the fact that in the same year, the United States successfully conducted the world's first air-dropped hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean, and the United States is still in the leading position in the world in long-range strategic bombing capability and nuclear weapons technology.
In 1956, when the "1959 Atomic Bomb Demand Study" was proposed, the United States already had more than 400 strategic bombers and more than 1,000 atomic bombs.
The study proposes that if the United States and the Soviet Union went to war in 1959, the United States would need more than 2,000 atomic bombs and more than 600 strategic bombers.
At that time, when the US military plan was proposed, the nuclear weapons of New China were "zero," and only the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons in the socialist camp, and although the Soviets attached great importance to nuclear weapons at that time, they did not raise them to a certain status.
The Soviet Union, which experienced the Great Patriotic War, attached great importance to the torrent of group armor, so it lagged a little behind in the construction of the air force and navy, and the Soviet Union's strategic bombing force was at a disadvantage in the early days of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
It can be said that at that time, China and the Soviet Union may still have a certain ability to resist the nuclear bombing plan formulated by the United States, but New China is absolutely unable to compete, which is why after the end of the Korean War, New China must have its own atomic bomb against all difficulties.
The atomic bombing of Japan, however, was slowly shelved over time until it was finally mothballed, because after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet leadership was deeply aware of the role of nuclear weapons and strategic bombing.
So in the latter part of Khrushchev's reign until the time of Brezhlev,The Soviet Union's nuclear weapons have developed rapidly, and the number of nuclear warheads far exceeds that of the United States, and the number of its strategic bombers has also greatly surpassed that of the United States.
And at that time, New China also had its own nuclear weapons and long-range delivery capabilities, and New China had a certain ability to protect itself.
Coupled with the drag of the Vietnam War, the emergence of the European Community in Western Europe, the rise of Japan, and the profound changes in the balance of power in the capitalist world.
France, in particular, under Charles de Gaulle,France not only has its own nuclear weapons, but has also been at odds with the United States, and even finally withdrew from the "NATO" military system.
All this has forced the United States to recognize reality, abandon its previous unrealistic plans, and replan its future.
Long before the large-scale retaliation plan was proposed, the United States had already had a bombing plan against the socialist camp led by the Soviet UnionThe program is called the "Iron Pincer" program.
The main content of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was to bomb Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) with about 50 nuclear warheads, with the aim of destroying the political center of the Soviet Union and demoralizing the Soviet Union.
Later, after the outbreak of the Korean War, the United States **led the United States** to fight the volunteers on the Korean Peninsula, and the Americans found that this newly established eastern power had the strength to compete with them.
Therefore, in the SIOP-62 plan developed later, the "Soviet bloc" was renamed the "Sino-Soviet bloc" for the first timeAt the same time, the United States is extremely worried about the strategy of China and the Soviet Union in international affairs, especially when it comes to the United States.
And this leads to perhaps the most terrifying nuclear weapons program in the history of the Cold War - the strategy of massive retaliation.
However, with the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and drastic changes in Eastern Europe, the United States has become the world's only superpower, and its comprehensive national strength far exceeds that of any other country in the world.
Therefore, after the end of the Cold War, the United States has also reduced the number of nuclear warheads, but even so, its nuclear warhead holdings are still the first in the world, so in the face of the nuclear threat from the United States, China must always be vigilant and must not "self-abandon" like Ukraine.