Nuclear Extortion? Abolish Nuclear Weapons
BY MEDEA BENJAMIN - MARCY WINOGRAD
Image by Pablo Stanic.
In a moment of candor, President Biden told Democratic Party contributors the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is the highest since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, 90 miles from Florida. Referring to Russian President Putin’s veiled threats to use short-range nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the President added it was the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis such a “direct threat” had been issued.
Not true.
The US has a history of nuclear extortion.
In 1950, during the Korean War, President Truman said launching nuclear weapons was under “active consideration” against Chinese troops in North Korea.
In 1953, President Eisenhower–who later denounced ...










