Shocking Facts: “Nuke the Soviets”
November 5th— A call from the London Daily Mail: “We are doing a piece on a new book and wanted to run it by you.”
November 6th— The new book is Thomas Maier’s When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys. What’s exciting is their discovery of a Shocking Fact about Churchill (Shocking Fact #22,385, by my count.)
Mr. Maier reports, calmly and dispassionately, a 1947 conversation between Churchill and Senator Stiles Bridges (R-NH). In it, Churchill says “that if an atomic bomb could be dropped on the Kremlin wiping it out, it would be a very easy problem to handle the balance of Russia, which would be without direction.”
So—wow—the Mail is really onto an exposé.…
