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[ScholarWarrior]

The plan was vetoed on the urging of the State Department. China went forward with its nuclear weapons program, exploding its first device (right) at its Lop Nor test site on Oct. 16, 1964.

Grrrrrr.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"The plan was vetoed on the urging of the State Department."

McCarthy tried to tell everyone.

[FairOpinion]

"Operation BRAVO
A generation ago, the White House was gripped by reports that "Red" China was preparing to build its own nuclear weapons.
It called for the United States to prevent the People's Republic from building a nuclear weapon by launching a secret attack against a weapons plant in north central China.

The plan was vetoed on the urging of the State Department. China went forward with its nuclear weapons program, exploding its first device (right) at its Lop Nor test site on Oct. 16, 1964."

"Soon after the Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear bomb in August of 1949, the United States decided it needed to learn more about the types of weapons its enemy was building."

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If we had gone in and bombed their nuclear facilities AT THE BEGINNING in a PREEMPTIVE strike, we could have avoided 60 years of cold war. Just think about it!

THIS is why we had to take out Iraq and all other rogue nations supporting terrorists and building WMD.

[bonesmccoy]

Here's additional information on the military Gemini missions. I believe this program was called MOL and was organized under USAF.

Another page exists at http://www.deepcold.com/deepcold/gem_main.html

There were several proposals for various orbital space labs. These proposals were eventually combined into the Apollo Applications Program, which led to Skylab.

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/morl.htm

Gemini also had a different program called Dyna-Soar which was a paragliding system for land based recovery of the capsule (or should I say, "Spacecraft"...)

Perhaps the best opportunity for USAF control over manned spaceflight was VAFB's SLC-6.

[U S Army EOD]

Look up both T80 and T90 soviet tanks. They do exist.

[lilylangtree]

". . . 7800 curies of radioactive iodine, well-known to concentrate in human thyroids, into the air of the Pacific Northwest . . ."

Lawsuits aplenty against Hanford over this action is still in the works by the offspring of people who basically got sprayed. Various forms of cancer resultant in the original people and their offspring are alleged in the lawsuits.

[RightOnline]

"After the 1979 incident, the Air Force moved its training operations to another location, and it has since upgraded its tracking center."

I was a young copilot in SAC at the time.......and I remember this. Of course, never knew just how close we came............

[Chairman Fred]

Has anyone noted the pro-Nazi bias, wherein the author has used quotation marks?

"'Red' China."

[The Great Satan]

Unsuspecting civilians are doused with radiation and germ weapons. Intelligence agents recruit psychic spies. Generals plan an attack on a Chinese nuclear weapons plant. A phantom army triggers the largest arms buildup in history. Politicians secretly construct an underground city to escape fallout. The United States comes within 7 minutes of launching its ICBMs.

A government scientist takes the heat for an anthrax threat from a foreign power. The President hides his knowledge of the real authorship of the most daring attack on the US ever perpetrated. A bogus "assassination attempt" is concocted to cover a backdoor deal with a murderous blackmailer.

It's not just fiction. It really happened.

[Jhoffa_]

With supposedly only 7 minutes left to launch U.S. ICBMs, the mystery was solved. Someone had put a training tape on the wrong machine-it was literally a textbook attack.

This shouldn't happen..

Ever.

I can't believe all it took to throw NORAD into per-nuclear chaos is someone putting a tape in the wrong machine..!

[thedugal]

I'm not sure how much of this article is true. I am sure, however, that anyone who puts quotes around "evil empire" and "Red" China is a liberal idiot. Therefor, I suggest 2 shakers of salt be taken with this entire piece.

[risk]

During the 1980s, the rationale for the United States undertaking the largest weapons buildup in history was detailed in a widely circulated Defense Department document titled Soviet Military Power.

We should resolve not to dismantle these weapons. To do so would squander the wealth of patriots past, and endanger us further.

[struwwelpeter]

Interesting piece by Bukovskiy:

Secrets of the Central Committee

Vladimir Bukovsky

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BEFORE ME on my desk is an enormous pile of papers, some 3,000 pages marked "top secret," "special file," "exceptional importance," and "personal." At first glance, they all look the same. In the top right-hand corner is the slogan, "Workers of the world, unite!" On the left side-a severe warning: "To be returned to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (General Department, Section I) within 24 hours." On some, the restrictions are less stringent-the document may be retained for three days or seven, or, not quite so frequently, for two months.

Lower down, in large letters across the page, are the words: "The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Central Committee" (CC CPSU). Farther below are codes, reference numbers, a date, a list of those who have initialed the document, those who voted for the decision it contains, and those charged with its implementation. The implementers are not, in all cases, entitled to see the entire thing. Instead, they receive an "abstract from the minutes," the contents of which they are forbidden to publicize; a reminder of this appears in fine print in the left margin of the page.^* And the rules governing the use of top-secret documents from the Politburo, the Central Committee’s executive committee and the most powerful decision-making body of the Soviet Union, are even stricter:

ATTENTION

A comrade in receipt of top-secret documents of the CC CPSU may not pass them into other hands nor acquaint anyone with their contents without special permission from the CC. Photocopying or making extracts from the documents in question is categorically forbidden. The comrade to whom the document is addressed must sign and date it after he has studied the contents.