[JRandomFreeper]

Only Nixon could go to China.

/johnny

[Tribune7]

China probably owes us more than any other nation. We kept it from being divvied up by Europeans in the 19th century, we saved it from the Japanese and we kept them from being nuked by the Soviets.

[James C. Bennett]

[Spok]

Remember when the president was a man? I wonder how things would turn out today.

[Navy Patriot]

I call BS, too many places this does not fit.

[Deaf Smith]

Wasn't a Tactical Nuke used in '69? Or was that 1970?

It has been mentioned in several threads over the years.

[buccaneer81]

Just Google “Yalu River.”

[Skooz]

I referred to this incident in a post years ago and was attacked by some know it all freeper as an an idiot.

Wish I could remember his name. I’d ping the guy, I tell ya’.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks bruinbirdman. This story came out via a different source, sometime around 1980, possibly shortly after Breschnev kicked off. He invited Nixon to participate in a preemptive nuclear strike on China, to eliminate the threat of a nuke-equipped power which wasn't part of the Test Ban Treaty or Non-Proliferation. Nixon declined the offer, and was chilled when the Soviet leader suggested the USSR was going to go ahead and do it anyway. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[bunkerhill7]

USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969 but shelved the idea because Ping Ping was still in the Moscow Zoo

[plain talk]

Back when we had men like Richard Nixon as President. I can’t imagine Carter, Clinton or Obama doing that.

[Cheetahcat]

A very bad mistake,should have let the Russians nuke them.

[MissesBush]

It wouldn’t have turned into World War 3. We should have let the USSR do it. China wouldn’t be what it is today and the Soviet Union would have been badly wounded as well.

[rahbert]

Is Tricky Dick flashing gang signage at Leonid B?

[Grampa Dave]

Dang, I sure missed some inresting intel, er stuff, after I became a full time civilian.

[gura]

ping

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

One more reason to hate Nixon, he should’ve let them do it.