HIROSHIMA DAY 2003: Secret Meeting on the Privatization of Nuclear War
Behind closed doors at Strategic Command Headquarters
在戰略司令部總部的緊閉門户之後
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, August 7, 2011
- 2011-08-06
Translation by Autumnson Blog
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable – a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread in terms of radioactive fallout over a large part of the Middle East.
1945年8月6日在廣島投下第一顆原子彈之後的不知任何時候，人類已接近不可思議的 - 核災難那可能在中東大部份擴散放射性核子塵。
All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped. “Offensive” military actions using nuclear warheads are now described as acts of “self-defense”.
分類核彈為“終極武器”的冷戰時代的所有防護措施已被作廢， 使用核彈頭的“侵犯性”軍事行動現在被形容為“自我防衛”行為。
The casualties from the direct effects of blast, radioactivity, and fires resulting from the massive use of nuclear weapons by the superpowers [of the Cold War era] would be so catastrophic that we avoided such a tragedy for the first four decades after the invention of nuclear weapons.1
來自爆炸、放射線直接效果的傷亡人數，和超級大國大規模使用核武器造成的火災[冷戰時代]會是如此災難性，因此我們在發明核武器後的頭四十年避開這樣的悲劇。 1
During the Cold War, the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) prevailed, namely that the use of nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union would result in “the destruction of both the attacker and the defender”. In the post Cold war era, US nuclear doctrine was redefined.
在冷戰期間，確保相互摧毀（MAD）的信條佔盡上風，即使用核武器對付蘇聯將導致“攻擊和防守雙方的摧毁。”在後冷戰時代，美國的核信條被重新定義。
The dangers of nuclear weapons have been obfuscated. Tactical weapons have been upheld as distinct, in terms of their impact, from the strategic thermonuclear bombs of the Cold War era. Tactical nuclear weapons are identical to the strategic nuclear bombs. The only things that differentiates these two categories of nuclear bombs are:
核武器的危險已被模糊，戰術武器已被維持突顯，以它們的影響計，由冷戰時代的戰略性熱核炸彈。戰術核武器是相等於戰略性核彈，唯一區分這兩類核彈的東西是：
1) their delivery system;
1）它們的運載系統;
2) their explosive yield (measured in mass of trinitrotoluene (TNT), in kilotons or megatons.
2）它們的炸藥量（量度三硝基甲苯（TNT）的質量以千噸或兆噸。
The tactical nuclear weapon or low yield mini-nuke is described as a small nuclear bomb, delivered in the same way as the earth penetrating bunker buster bombs. Tactical nuclear weapons, in terms of in-theater delivery systems are comparable to the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
戰術核武器或低產微型核彈被描述為小型核彈，以鑽地掩體剋星炸彈的同樣方式傳遞。戰術核武器，以戰區內的交付系統計相媲美在1945年8月掉在廣島和長崎的炸彈。
The Pentagon’s 2001 Nuclear Posture Review envisaged so-called “contingency plans” for an offensive “first strike use” of nuclear weapons, not only against “axis of evil” countries (including Iran and North Korea) but also against Russia and China.2
五角大樓的2001年核態勢評估報告想像所謂的“應急計劃”，為侵犯性的核武器“第一擊使用”，不僅針對“邪惡軸心”國家（包括伊朗和朝鮮），而且還針對俄羅斯和中國。 2
The adoption of the NPR by the US Congress in late 2002 provided a green light for carrying out the Pentagon’s pre-emptive nuclear war doctrine, both in terms of military planning as well as defense procurement and production. Congress not only rolled back its prohibition on low yield nuclear weapons, it also provided funding “to pursue work on so-called mini-nukes”. The financing was allocated to bunker buster (earth penetrator) tactical nuclear weapons as well as to the development of new nuclear weapons.3
在2002年年底美國國會採用NPR，提供綠燈給五角大樓實踐先發製人的核戰爭信條，無論是在軍事規劃方面，以及國防採購和生產。國會不僅回滾至其低當量核武器的禁止，它也提供資金“以追求工作在所謂的微型核武”。融資被分配到掩體剋星（鑽地）戰術核武器，以及新的核武器發展。 3
2003年廣島日：秘密會議在戰略司令部總部
Hiroshima Day 2003: Secret Meeting at Strategic Command Headquarters
On August 6, 2003, on Hiroshima Day, commemorating when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6 1945), a secret meeting was held behind closed doors at Strategic Command Headquarters at the Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
2003年8月6日的廣島日記念時第一顆原子彈投下廣島（1945年8月6日），一個秘密會議在內布拉斯加Offutt空軍基地戰略司令部總部的緊閉門户之後舉行。
Senior executives from the nuclear industry and the military industrial complex were in attendance. This mingling of defense contractors, scientists and policy-makers was not intended to commemorate Hiroshima. The meeting was intended to set the stage for the development of a new generation of “smaller”, “safer” and “more usable” nuclear weapons, to be used in the “in-theater nuclear wars” of the 21st Century.
來自核工業和軍工集團的高級管理人員出席會議。這種國防承包商、科學家和政策制定者的混合，目的並不是為記念廣島。會議旨在設定階段作開發新一代“較小”、“較安全”和“更可用”的核武器，被用於21世紀時的“戰區內的核戰爭”。
In a cruel irony, the participants to this secret meeting, which excluded members of Congress, arrived on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing and departed on the anniversary of the attack on Nagasaki. More than 150 military contractors, scientists from the weapons labs, and other government officials gathered at the headquarters of the US Strategic Command in Omaha, Nebraska to plot and plan for the possibility of “full-scale nuclear war”, calling for the production of a new generation of nuclear weapons – more “usable” so-called “mini-nukes” and earth penetrating “bunker busters” armed with atomic warheads.4
According to a leaked draft of the agenda, the secret meeting included discussions on “mini-nukes” and “bunker-buster” bombs with nuclear war heads “for possible use against rogue states”:
We need to change our nuclear strategy from the Cold War to one that can deal with emerging threats... The meeting will give some thought to how we guarantee the efficacy of the (nuclear) stockpile.5
The Privatization of Nuclear War: US Military Contractors Set the Stage
The post 9/11 nuclear weapons doctrine was in the making, with America’s major defense contractors directly involved in the decision-making process.
The Hiroshima Day 2003 meetings had set the stage for the “privatization of nuclear war”. Corporations not only reap multibillion-dollar profits from the production of nuclear bombs, they also have a direct voice in setting the agenda regarding the use and deployment of nuclear weapons.
The nuclear weapons industry, which includes the production of nuclear devices as well as the missile delivery systems, etc., is controlled by a handful of defense contractors with Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grunman, Raytheon and Boeing in the lead. It is worth noting that barely a week prior to the historic August 6, 2003 meeting, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) disbanded its advisory committee which provided an “independent oversight” on the US nuclear arsenal, including the testing and/or use of new nuclear devices.6
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The above text is an excerpt from Michel Chossudovsky's Towards a World War Three Scenario, The Dangers of Nuclear War.
上述文字摘自Michel Chossudovsky的走向第三次世界大戰場景，核戰的危險。
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