Secret Meeting on the Privatization of Nuclear War. Hiroshima Day 2003 | Global Research
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable – a
nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread in terms of radioactive
fallout over a large part of the Middle East.
All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear
bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped. “Offensive”
military actions using nuclear warheads are now described as acts of
“self-defense”.
The casualties from the direct effects of blast,
radioactivity, and fires resulting from the massive use of nuclear
weapons by the superpowers [of the Cold War era] would be so
catastrophic that we avoided such a tragedy for the first four decades
after the invention of nuclear weapons.1
During the Cold War, the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction
(MAD) prevailed, namely that the use of nuclear weapons against the
Soviet Union would result in “the destruction of both the attacker and
the defender”. In the post Cold war era, US nuclear doctrine was
redefined.
