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Dr. Strangelove, Operation Northwoods, and Closing on Nuclear Risk
from Emergency Podcast: The Epstein Cover-Up | The Tim Dillon Show #454 · #454
4 min
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Jones recounts the true history behind Dr. Strangelove involving Curtis LeMay and Operation Northwoods' plan to stage attacks and blame Cuba/Russia, ties it to modern NATO missile placements near Russia's border, and closes citing the Doomsday Clock before signing off.
- Doctor Strangelove was based on true events involving Curtis LeMay and the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposing to bomb their own bases and blame Russia.
- The Joint Chiefs presented a plan to Eisenhower to attack US military installations, shoot down American planes, and frame Cuba, expecting only 20 million American deaths in retaliation.
- Eisenhower fired the generals who proposed the plan; Kennedy later fired them again when they returned with Operation Northwoods.
- Donald Rumsfeld was an adjunct to LeMay, connecting the Cold War era hawks to the post-9/11 neoconservatives and Project for a New American Century.
- During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US placed medium-range nuclear missiles on Russia's border, including in Turkey, but American textbooks presented it as only Russian aggression.
- The US is currently placing missiles on Russia's border again, mirroring the exact same pattern that nearly triggered nuclear war in the 1960s.
- Russia warned that hundreds or thousands of incoming hypersonic missiles would force them to assume it's a nuclear first strike and respond accordingly.
- The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says humanity is currently 20 seconds from midnight on the Doomsday Clock, closer to nuclear war than ever before.
Alex JonesOperation NorthwoodsCuban Missile CrisisCurtis LeMayDwight EisenhowerDonald RumsfeldDick CheneyBulletin of the Atomic ScientistsJohn F. KennedyDr. StrangeloveNikita KhrushchevbunkersStanley Kubrick