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August 3, 2020
A Nuclear Nightmare Awaits America If Democrats Get Their Way - As Russia And China Weaponize Space, This Very Real Existential Threat To America Looms Much Larger Than Covid-19
- Despite What Democrats Believe, America's Nuclear Deterrent Has Prevented Great Wars And Potentially Millions Dead
(ANP: In the 1st video at the bottom of this story, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry joins John Loeffler on Steele on Steele radio to talk with us about how the Obama holdovers still entrenched within various US government agencies are putting America in grave danger, especially with China and Russia now weaponizing space. And in the 2nd video below, Dr. Pry joins the Bill Walton Show along with Frank Gaffney to talk with us about the very real existential risk to America that looms infinitely larger than anything posed by the Covid 19 virus, EMP, and the potential total takedown of our electrical grid that could leave 90% of Americans dead within a year to 18 months following such an event.)
August 6th marks the 75th anniversary of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing, which ended World War II and began a new era in world history, overshadowed by nuclear weapons.
Haunting every generation since Hiroshima is the horrific specter of nuclear war. Even those who never read John Hershey’s book “Hiroshima” (1946), recounting experiences of six survivors, envision a nuclear nightmare looking something like this:
“He was the only person making his way into the city; he met hundreds and hundreds who were fleeing, and every one of them seemed to be hurt in some way. The eyebrows of some were burned off and skin hung from their faces and hands. Others, because of pain, held their arms up as if carrying something in both hands. Some were vomiting as they walked. Many were naked or in shreds of clothing. On some undressed bodies, the burns had made patterns—of undershirt straps and suspenders and, on the skin of some women (since white repelled the heat from the bomb and dark clothes absorbed it and conducted it to the skin), the shapes of flowers they had had on their kimonos. Many, although injured themselves, supported relatives who were worse off. Almost all had their heads bowed, looked straight ahead, were silent, and showed no expression whatsoever.”
–John Hershey “Hiroshima”
Critics of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki focus upon their ghastly consequences to convince Americans to “ban the bomb”. Increasingly, critics argue not only were the atomic bombings unnecessary and inhumane—but that America is evil.
Rarely remembered from Hershey’s “Hiroshima” is testimony from another survivor, proving diehard fanaticism displayed by Imperial Japan’s troops during the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa was also shared even by students and university professors:
“Dr. Y. Hiraiwa, professor of Hiroshima University of Literature and Science, and one of my church members, was buried by the bomb under the two storied house with his son, a student of Tokyo University. Both of them could not move an inch under tremendously heavy pressure. And the house already caught fire. His son said: ‘Father, we can do nothing except make our mind up to consecrate our lives for the country. Let us give Banzai to our Emperor.’ Then the father followed after his son, ‘Tenno-heika Banzai, Banzai, Banzai!’…In thinking of their experience of that time Dr. Hiraiwa repeated, ‘What a fortunate that we are Japanese! It was my first time I ever tasted such a beautiful spirit when I decided to die for our Emperor.’”
— John Hershey "Hiroshima"
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaskai made unnecessary invading Japan’s home islands against fanatical resistance, that would probably cost one million U.S. and several million Japanese casualties. Battles for the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, a preview for invading Japan, resulted in over 88,000 U.S. casualties and over 200,000 Japanese military and civilians killed.
August 6, 1945 is not the only date relevant to nuclear weapons, although Hiroshima (and Nagasaki) are the only events anti-nuclear activists would like us to remember. A few other dates worth remembering:
—May 12, 1949: Peaceful end of the USSR’s illegal Berlin blockade, that threatened to become World War III, but did not, thanks to U.S. nuclear deterrence.
—July 27, 1953: Armistice ending the Korean War, achieved by President Eisenhower threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons.
—October 28, 1962: Peaceful end of the Cuban missile crisis, the USSR agreeing to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba, achieved because the U.S. had a 5-to1 superiority in ICBMs.
—November 9, 1989: Peaceful fall of the Berlin Wall, and shortly afterwards dissolution of the Warsaw Pact that for decades threatened to overrun NATO, but did not do so, deterred by U.S. nuclear weapons.
—December 21, 1991: Peaceful dissolution of the evil empire that was the USSR, without a nuclear World War III.
The last date above is especially worth remembering. Miraculous and unprecedented in history that two such ideologically hostile military superpowers refrained from a great war, thanks to nuclear deterrence.
Washington has forgotten crucial lessons of nuclear Cold War peaceful victory: the U.S. must maintain at least parity in numbers, modernity, technological quality and capabilities, and allow potential adversaries no significant advantages in the nuclear balance.
Today, Russia’s advantage in overall numbers of nuclear weapons (strategic and tactical) is at least 3-to-1, and has significant advantages in modernity, technological quality and capabilities. China’s number of nuclear weapons is unknown—but possibly more than the U.S. Even North Korea has Super-EMP weapons, while the U.S. has none.
If the U.S. cannot maintain nuclear parity, Washington needs to think beyond Hiroshima, as President Ronald Reagan did with his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and as we hope President Trump is thinking with his U.S. Space Force.
Arms control and “banning the bomb” is a fools game, as totalitarian states always cheat on treaties, making more likely future Hiroshimas.
Former SDI Director, Ambassador Henry Cooper, reminds us weekly (HighFrontier.com) that Brilliant Pebbles space-based anti-missiles are achievable in 5 years for $20 billion.
Beyond Hiroshima are space-based missile defenses—that can make the long nuclear nightmare obsolete.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security. He served on the Congressional EMP Commission as chief of staff, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA. He is author of "Blackout Wars," and also of "The Power and the Light," available on Amazon.com.
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