It is more than 35 years since he was shunted out of office, but the thought of Richard Nixon‘s finger on the nuclear trigger still has the power to terrify.
Now it has been revealed that the highly erratic president’s metaphorical digit was hovering even closer than was widely realised as his administration laid plans for an atomic strike against North Korea in 1969 following the shooting down of a US spy plane.
According to newly revealed government documents, Nixon is even believed to have ordered nuclear bombers to be put on standby for an immediate strike after North Korean jets downed the American plane as it flew over international waters collecting electronic and radio intelligence.
Was Tricky Dick a passing pahse of the the ugly Empire he controlled?
But isn’t he still in Washintgon and controlling the American foreign policy? In fact, his successors have followed him closely. See what the present occupnat of the White House has been doing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Occupied Palestine!