Sunday, April 16, 2017
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION WHERE DID NORTH KOREA'S CAPABILITY COME FROM
If you look at this topic, Wikipedia does not even get into the prior history. I am not an authority on this highly involved and technical subject.
See Time article referred to in DK article:
http://time.com/4692045/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-history/
See Time article referred to in DK article:
http://time.com/4692045/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-history/
Wikipedia starts out with Bernard Baruch, and trying to dismantle all nuclear weapons capability, in the name of a liberal international economic order.
The Time article on Korean nuclear history, even though it refers to 1848, the year the russians finally made a bomb, also, utterly fails to discuss how the liberal West originally had allowed Russia to not only get but keep nuclear weapons technology, and to develop it, unhindered, behind the iron curtain after WWII.
That really is the big big story about Korean nuclear history, but so embarrassing that no American historian, it seems, certainly no one at Time, will touch it.
A journalist and a spy wrote a good book about the espionage background, The Haunted Wood, and a CIA book review exists, of which this is the last paragraph:
"Postmodernists will reject the very idea of truth, but new generations of historians may discover that its pursuit and even its imperfect image have value beyond the nihilism current in so much contemporary historical typing. When that generational change occurs, Allen Weinstein will be recognized as a hero of his profession, pursuing its highest standards with tenacity, integrity, and courage. Readers will find this a haunting book, evoking still-painful memories of controversies imbedded in basic moral issues, truth and loyalty prominent among them. In the end, it is truth that sets us free of the dualism that has clouded American discussion of these issues for so much of this century. For too long, the demagoguery of Joseph McCarthy has been used to argue the innocence of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs. The truth, in the end, is more complex and even more interesting: McCarthy was a demagogue, and Hiss and his colleagues were traitors." CIA book review
but that is all I know about in print. Maybe someone can enlighten me...
If you read The Haunted Wood, it seems that the OSS was a sort of very liberal branch of the KGB, or whatever it had been called back then.
If one believes the Target Patton account, they cooperated with them in Europe, even more fully than Eisenhower and co did on the ground, during WWII. Maybe I exaggerate here, but that is how the account read to me.
Of course, the CIA position had to change, with the late 40s situation. Call it the great awakening....
"Postmodernists will reject the very idea of truth, but new generations of historians may discover that its pursuit and even its imperfect image have value beyond the nihilism current in so much contemporary historical typing. When that generational change occurs, Allen Weinstein will be recognized as a hero of his profession, pursuing its highest standards with tenacity, integrity, and courage. Readers will find this a haunting book, evoking still-painful memories of controversies imbedded in basic moral issues, truth and loyalty prominent among them. In the end, it is truth that sets us free of the dualism that has clouded American discussion of these issues for so much of this century. For too long, the demagoguery of Joseph McCarthy has been used to argue the innocence of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs. The truth, in the end, is more complex and even more interesting: McCarthy was a demagogue, and Hiss and his colleagues were traitors." CIA book review
but that is all I know about in print. Maybe someone can enlighten me...
If you read The Haunted Wood, it seems that the OSS was a sort of very liberal branch of the KGB, or whatever it had been called back then.
If one believes the Target Patton account, they cooperated with them in Europe, even more fully than Eisenhower and co did on the ground, during WWII. Maybe I exaggerate here, but that is how the account read to me.
Of course, the CIA position had to change, with the late 40s situation. Call it the great awakening....
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