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Empire and
the bomb
Milan Rai
This summer, long-time US
peace campaigner/researcher
Joe Gerson is visiting the UK for
a speaker tour to
launch his brilliant new book
Empire and the Bomb: How the
US Uses Nuclear Weapons to
Dominate the World.
Living history
Joe Gerson documents operational planning for the use of
nuclear weapons in the Korean
war, the Vietnam war (early French
phase as well as the later US
debacle), and later.
Empire and the Bomb records
the use of US nuclear threats during the Suez crisis (1956), the
Lebanon and Iraq crisis (1958),
the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli
wars, the 1991 and 2003 Gulf
wars, and against Libya in 1996.
These threats were systematic,
and grew out of consistent US
nuclear doctrine -- to use nuclear
weapons as tools of influence and
instruments of domination, not
merely to protect the US homeland from annihilation.
New directions
There are hidden realities of
nuclear doctrine, nuclear threats
and nuclear planning which no
concerned citizen can safely
ignore. This is a valuable addition
to the literature on US nuclear
threats. A British counterpart is
badly overdue.
Until then, we're privileged to
be able to hear American Friends
Service Committee Director of
Programmes Joe Gerson revealing what has been hidden.
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