ABSTRACT

Since 1945, several leading politicians had allegedly been murdered by a group of doctors, most of whom were linked to a Jewish organisation run by the Americans. One of those accused confessed that he had been ordered to 'eliminate the leading cadres of the Soviet Union', and this included Comrade Stalin. The first time that brinkmanship and the threat of a nuclear strike were tried was in March–May 1954 when the French, at Dien Bien Phu in north western Vietnam, appealed for air strikes to break the Viet Minh siege. Mao Zedong also met brinkmanship with brinkmanship, but what the Americans did not fully grasp was that Mao was trying to draw the Soviet Union into a nuclear confrontation with the US. Kennedy V. Khrushchev engaged in brinkmanship and thought the Allies would not go to war over Berlin, and his military told him it could take the city in six to eight hours.