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The Destroyer of Worlds

Hardcore History Episode 59 – Now Available!

Publish Date:Tue, 24 Jan 2017
Duration:05:49:32 minutes – 336.5 mb

What happens if human beings can’t handle the power of their own weaponry? This show  examines the dangerous early years of the Nuclear Age and humankind’s efforts to avoid self-destruction at the hands of its own creation.

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Meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Cuban Missile Crisis

October 19, 1962

General Curtis LeMay:

Now, as for the Berlin situation, I don’t share your view that if we knock off Cuba, they’re going to knock off Berlin. We’ve got the Berlin problem staring us in the face anyway. If we don’t do anything to Cuba, then they’re going to push on Berlin and push real hard because they’ve got us on the run. If we take military action against Cuba, then I think that the . . . 

President Kennedy:

What do you think their reprisal would be?

 General Curtis LeMay:

I don’t think they’re going to make any reprisal if we tell them that the Berlin situation is just like it’s always been. If they make a move we’re going to fight. Now I don’t think this changes the Berlin situation at all, except you’ve got to make one more statement on it.

So I see no other solution. This blockade and political action, I see leading into war. I don’t see any other solution for it. It will lead right into war. This is almost as bad as the appeasement at Munich.

[Pause.]

Because if this [unclear] blockade comes along, their MiGs are going to fly. The IL-28s are going to fly against us. And we’re just going to

gradually drift into a war under conditions that are at great disadvantage to us, with missiles staring us in the face, that can knock out our airfields in the southeastern portion [of the United States]. And if they use nuclear weapons, it’s the population down there. We just drift into a war under conditions that we don’t like. I just don’t see any other solution except direct military intervention . . . right now

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Dan’s research and book list

Oppenheimer clip used by permission from NBCUniversal
NBC WHITE PAPER: DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB (1/5/1965)

1. Truman Library – Public Papers of the Presidents: Harry S. Truman

2. ExComm recordings and transcripts

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