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Old January 3rd, 2018 #21
Donncha Dennis
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https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Bro.../dp/0786720867

Interesting that this book only came out in 2007 its premise was that Truman okayed secret missions into china/north korea and Russia to ascertain if Russia had the nuclear bomb and was willing to use it against American forces. There is no evidence of this taking place but take it for what its worth, there were many books after Vietnam too written by former military guys like this one that said they were in secret missions not only into laos and Cambodia but into north Vietnam and even china itself. Again these guys and their books there was no proof of it ever happening so take it as is.

Even if the russkies had a few nukes they would have been very low yield stuff acceptable loses even if they could get their big bombers far enough to hit the west coast without American forces on their tale. Of course Macarthur wanted to nuke china back into the earth which again acceptable losses these nukes were low scale things and if it would have been done china probably only now would be approaching 1950s level of tech instead of the economic gaint it is now. It seems very hard to find any information regarding macarthurs plans to invade china or his nuclear attack plans, researching Curtis Le May his buddy doesn't turn up much results for this time period either. I want to find clear comprehensive plans for his strategy but it seems very hard to find for some reason.