FBI memo reveals that Winston Churchill tried to convince President Truman to drop a nuke on Moscow in 1947

A secret memo from the FBI’s archives reveals that Winston Churchill once urged the US to drop an atomic bomb to “wipe out” the Kremlin. Churchill reportedly believed  it was the only way to stop the spread of communism to the west.

Thank god cooler heads prevailed in the US leadership. The UK’s Daily Mail reports:

The note, written by an FBI agent, reports that Churchill urged Right-wing Republican Senator Styles Bridges to persuade President Harry Truman to launch a nuclear attack which would ‘wipe out’ the Kremlin and make the Soviet Union a ‘very easy problem’ to deal with.

The Russians would have been defenceless against a nuclear attack at that time  – they did not successfully test their own atomic bomb until 1949.

RT adds…

Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II and again during the Cold War 1950s, made his views known to a visiting American politician in 1947, The Daily Mail reported in a preview of a new book, “When Lions Roar: The Churchills and The Kennedys” by investigative journalist Thomas Maier. The book containing the secret FBI memo is to be published next month.

Britain and the Soviet Union had been allies during WW2. However, according to the memo written by an FBI agent, Churchill asked a Right-wing Republican senator, Styles Bridges, to help persuade then-President Harry Truman to launch a nuclear attack which would make the former USSR easy to deal with.

The FBI memo claims Churchill insisted that the “only salvation for the civilization of the world would be if the President of the United States would declare Russia to be imperiling world peace and attack Russia.”

Churchill, incorrectly, warned that if this was not done, Russia would attack America within “the next two or three years, when she gets the atomic bomb and civilization will be wiped out or set back many years.”

Not to worry Mr. Churchill…David Cameron and his US neo-con buddies, appear to be working overtime at making your wish come true. Let’s hope that, like in 1947, rational men prevail .

References:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2826980/Winston-Churchill-s-bid-nuke-Russia-win-Cold-War-uncovered-secret-FBI-files.html

http://rt.com/news/203691-churchill-nuke-russia-cold-war/