Towards a World War III Scenario: America’s “Contingency Plan” to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons
Global Research, June 16, 2014
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U.S. plans to attack Iran with a mix of nuclear and conventional weapons
have been in readiness since June, 2005, according to Michel Chossudovsky. a
distinguished authority on international affairs.
“Confirmed by military documents as well as official statements, both the
U.S. and Israel contemplate the use of nuclear weapons directed against Iran,”
writes professor Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on
Globalization in Montreal.
The plans were formulated in 2004. The previous year, Congress gave the
Pentagon the green light to use thermo-nuclear weapons in conventional war
theaters in the Middle East and Central Asia, allocating $6 billion in 2004
alone to create the new generation of “defensive” tactical nuclear weapons or
“mini-nukes”.
“In 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney ordered USSTRATCOM (Strategic Command)
to draft a ‘contingency plan’ that included “a large-scale air assault on Iran
employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons,” Chossudovsky writes.
The plan went beyond the terms of reference outlined in the Pentagon’s 2001
Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which called for a ”preemptive” “first strike use”
of nuclear weapons against Russia and China as well as Iran and North Korea.
The 2005 plan identified more than 450 strategic targets in Iran, including
numerous alleged nuclear-weapons-program development sites. The plan,
incredibly, was rationalized on a second 9/11 type attack on the US that Cheney
believed Iran would allegedly support!
“President Obama has largely endorsed the doctrine of pre-emptive use of
nuclear weapons formulated by the previous administration,” Chossudovsky writes
in his new book, “Towards
a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War” (Global Research,
2012). His Administration “has also intimated it will use nukes in the event of
an Iran response to an Israeli attack on Iran.”
Chossudovsky points out, “The new nuclear doctrine turns concepts and
realities upside down. It not only denies the devastating impacts of nuclear
weapons, it states, in no uncertain terms, that nuclear weapons are ‘safe’ and
their use in the battlefield will ensure ‘minimal collateral damage and reduce
the probability of escalation.’ The issue of radioactive fallout is not even
acknowledged with regard to tactical nuclear weapons, neither is the issue of
‘Nuclear Winter’.”
“What is unfolding (in Iran) is the outright legitimization of war in the
name of an illusive notion of global security. America’s mini-nukes, with an
explosive capacity of up to six times a Hiroshima bomb, are upheld as a
‘humanitarian’ bomb, whereas Iran’s nonexistent nuclear weapons are branded as
an indisputable threat to global security,” Chossudovsky writes.
He points out that a U.S.-Israeli strike against Iran would probably not be
limited to Iran’s nuclear facilities but likely would be “an all-out air attack
on both military and civilian infrastructure, transport systems, factories and
public buildings.”
Employed would be “the entire gamut of new advanced weapons systems,
including electro-metric weapons and environmental modification techniques
(ENMOD),” Chossudovsky writes.
He notes that the U.S. has stepped up its military shipments to Israel, its
NATO allies, and to countries bordering Iran. Israel in 2004 took shipment of
the first of 500 U.S.-made BLU 109 “bunker buster” bombs, and the U.S. has
supplied thermonuclear bombs to Belgium, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands,
Turkey, and Great Britain. Turkey alone, a partner in the U.S. anti-Iran
coalition, has 90 thermonuclear B61 bombs at its Incirlik nuclear air base.
“It is not Iran and North Korea which are a threat to global security by the
United States of America and Israel,” he adds. What’s more, Western European
governments have joined the bandwagon and “have endorsed the U.S.-led military
initiative against Iran.”
He goes on to say, “At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima on August 6, 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.”It may also be noted the U.S. currently has several, nuclear-armed carrier task forces in waters near Iran and has built more than 40 military bases in the countries surrounding Iran. The U.S. reportedly has 20,000 nuclear bombs available to use and Israel reportedly has another 200, whereas Iran is not known to have one. U.S. military spending of $700 billion a year, moreover, is 100 times the rate of Iran’s $7 billion annual military outlay.
For further information and/or interviews with Michel Chossudovsky, contact Sherwood Ross Associates, Public Relations Consultants, Miami, Florida, 305-205-8281[email protected]
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