by When scientists first developed the nuclear bomb they were not sure if the bomb could trigger a chain reaction that would turn the whole planet into a fireball. Hitler said he was not going to be responsible for the destruction of all life on Earth and dropped the idea, but a few years later the US went ahead and took the risk regardless.One of the US scientists stopped working on the nuclear bomb as he thought it was immoral, and another one calculated the risk of blowing the whole planet up as 1 in 10. He still thought it was a good idea to fire one off, though, and took bets on whether it destroy everything there is. As Tom says, these are people are humongous risk takers. lizard people! [embedded content] Hitler ended the German nuclear weapons program in 1942 when told it could end
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One of the US scientists stopped working on the nuclear bomb as he thought it was immoral, and another one calculated the risk of blowing the whole planet up as 1 in 10. He still thought it was a good idea to fire one off, though, and took bets on whether it destroy everything there is. As Tom says, these are people are humongous risk takers. lizard people!
Hitler ended the German nuclear weapons program in 1942 when told it could end life on Earth—the Americans were willing to take the risk; since the end of WWII the Cold War was to a very large extent, from beginning to end, a marketing campaign for subsidization of the aerospace industry, says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay
The Soviet Union is no more and Russia today has an economy the size of Italy, but the US still demonises Russia as a powerful enemy, but this is because the US military-industrial-complex needs an enemy to justify its massive budget.
The US is a military-industrial state, but so is Russia, says Daniel Ellsberg, even though its MIC is state owned. Its bureaucrats see it as a lucrative business. People are mad!
On Reality Asserts Itself, Daniel Ellsberg tells host Paul Jay that US intelligence agencies knew that Stalin was not planning to invade Western Europe or seek world domination, but based on the myth, the world came close to nuclear war - and it’s all happening again