In 2015, the United States lifted a 60-year-old nuclear weapons program, which caused panic around the world, and the Americans gave the plan a very implicit name, "1959 Atomic Bomb Demand Study", but this plan is not only atomic bombs, but also includes hydrogen bombs, simply according to the list, the United States intends to drop nuclear weapons like more than 1200 target areas to fight against what they consider to be a threat to socialist countries, from Moscow to Kiev to Beijing and Pyongyang. All within the scope of the U.S. program. The United States intends to use at least 870 nuclear weapons against China to attack the facilities of 117 cities, and the United States cannot be said to attach little importance to China, so why did the plan to detonate our cities not implement in the end? In the end, who stifled the plan to attack China, and which areas were taken care of by the United States?
At the end of World War II, the United States first developed nuclear weapons, and dropped the warhead on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the evil japanese militarism gained the earliest and only huge destructive power of nuclear weapons, the huge destructive power of nuclear weapons was seen by the whole world, in order not to be threatened by the United States, other countries also began to develop nuclear weapons intensively, including the Soviet Union.
A mushroom cloud in which the United States dropped an atomic bomb in Japan
Surprisingly, in the years after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union remained a close alliance, and the two sides united to dismantle the colonial system established by Britain and France around the world. With the publication of Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech", the Cold War began, and the world's major countries were divided into the capitalist camp and the socialist camp.
Iron Curtain Speech
During the Korean War, in the face of the decline of the United Nations army on the battlefield, the United States had planned to drop nuclear weapons on the Chinese Volunteer Army and China's native cities, but the Soviet Union had developed nuclear weapons in 1949, breaking the nuclear monopoly of the United States, if the United States rushed to attack, it was bound to trigger World War III, or even nuclear war, the United States weighed up this crazy plan, but this does not mean that the United States gave up the plan to attack China. As the struggle for hegemony with the Soviet Union intensified, so did the hostility of the United States toward China.
A series of policies after Eisenhower came to power included the use of peaceful evolution to seize Soviet control of Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union, while competing for the Third World, continued to practice strategic support for China. After Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev became the successor leader, who changed the Stalinist policy of Defense for the United States and began to pursue a strategy of competing with the United States for hegemony, proposing three policies and dividing the world through cooperation with the United States, while at the same time competing with the United States for strategic space.
In 1956, Eisenhower put forward the so-called large-scale retaliation strategy, the United States has a great advantage in nuclear weapons, decided to vigorously expand the nuclear weapons development strategy, nuclear weapons superiority will be further expanded, under the guidance of this idea, the size of the United States nuclear weapons greatly increased, the United States Strategic Air Command formulated a way to deal with the use of weapons in World War III. Once World War III broke out, the United States would use nuclear weapons for large-scale retaliation, and 90% of the targets of U.S. bombing were in the Soviet Union.
With the successful development of the Soviet Tu-16 strategic bomber, the United States felt a real threat, and the main target of the United States was also thousands of airfields in the Soviet Union, which deprived the Soviet Union of the ability of strategic bombers to take off. As an ally of the Soviet Union, second only to the socialist countries of the Soviet Union, China naturally received special care from the United States, and China became the second bombing target of the United States after the Soviet Union.
Tu-16 strategic bomber
Part of the reason the United States takes such care of us is to vent the anger in our hearts. After all, a few years ago, the United States confidently entered the Korean War, then was defeated by the Chinese Volunteers and finally had to sign the first unwinned armistice. The performance of the volunteer army on the battlefield made the United States hold a grudge and recognize China's war potential. The United States cannot tolerate the development of such a socialist country, so it resolutely ranks China second in setting targets.
China's plan lists more than 800 nuclear bombing targets, China's political center - Beijing, the economically developed city - Shanghai, the largest port in the north - Tianjin, and the eldest son of the republic, Liaoning, are all in the US bombing plan, in which it is indicated that the Use of the Mark VI atomic bomb, the explosive power is about 10 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, if the United States really follows this plan to carry out a nuclear strike, then the whole world will face a great disaster.
But Khrushchev's visit to the United States delayed the plan. The unresolved issue of the Berlin crisis led to Khrushchev's visit to the United States at Eisenhower's invitation, followed by a three-day visit to the United States. During the visit, Khrushchev has always been very kind, in addition to participating in some negotiation meetings in the United States, Khrushchev's favorite is to visit the corn plantations of American farms, he also proposed Disneyland to play and invite Marilyn. Monroe dinner requirement.
Khrushchev and Marilyn. Monroe
The American people have a great change in the soviet leadership, the original Soviet leader is also an ordinary person, also want to see the world full of fairy tales, but also like to have dinner with beautiful women, which is very different from the image of the old-fashioned horror promoted by the United States.
Khrushchev in the United States
Since then, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union have shown signs of relaxation, and different voices have emerged within the United States, and many people are considering the possibility of peaceful coexistence between the United States and the Soviet Union and opposing Eisenhower's nuclear weapons retaliation plan.
The attitude of other countries in the world, most countries in the world will certainly be opposed to the "1959 Atomic Bomb Demand Study", and the United States will do more harm than good to use the program.
The smoke of World War II has just dissipated, peace and development have become the theme of the times, except for the United States and the Soviet Union, which wants to hold hegemony, most countries are reluctant to have another conflict, and the United States and the Soviet Union are not strong enough to single out the world.
Albert Einstein once said, "I don't know what weapons will be used in World War III, but in World War IV it will certainly be sticks and stones." "If nuclear weapons are used, the United States will certainly face the consequences of being the enemy of the entire world." The American people are also likely to bring down the government.
Einstein
Of course, the most important reason is that China and the Soviet Union are not in a state of domination, and when the great man visited Moscow, he discussed with Khrushchev the question of the Nuclear War launched by the United States. Khrushchev was very worried about this, but the great man said: "The atomic bomb is nothing remarkable, just a new type of weapon, which is the key to the victory of the paper tiger war. After hearing the words of the great man, Eisenhower in Washington said: "The most terrible time for the atomic bomb was when it was on the launcher, and our threats and intimidation were useless to Mao, he was an extremely difficult person to deal with." ”
Great man visits the USSR
We did not have particularly advanced weapons and equipment at that time, and even so, in preparation for the possible bombing, we moved but not limited to industrial facilities into the mountains, dug deep holes, stockpiled grain, and did not seek hegemony. The great man stressed that if imperialism waged war against us, we might reduce our population by half, but that would bury capitalism.
The Soviet side had a terrifying strength of more than 4 million troops on the European border, equipped with tens of thousands of tanks and self-propelled guns, and if the United States nuclear strike could not completely destroy the Soviet Union's strength and conventional forces, it would instead attract a Soviet counterattack. In 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched an intercontinental missile with a range of up to 8,000 kilometers, which could carry a nuclear warhead of millions of tons, posing a serious threat to the U.S. mainland.
According to the analysis of the US Department of Defense, the conventional military strength of the Soviet Union can bulldoze Europe in a month, so that the Soviet Union can pose a threat to the United States on the Atlantic coast, and the United States that has lost its allies will be completely isolated.
Therefore, the United States did not implement the "1959 Atomic Bomb Demand Study" program for many reasons, and the relaxation of relations between the two countries, the comparison of strength, the post-war international situation, and the great influence in the international community were all key factors in the failure to implement the "1959 Atomic Bomb Demand Study" program.