NYTimes: Castro Wanted Soviets to Nuke U.S.A.

Meredith Jessup | September 24, 2009 2:49 PM

Buried in yesterday's NYTimes Science section was a story entitled "Details Emerge of Cold War Threat by Cuba." The article describes how newly released documents show conclusive evidence that

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was urging the Soviet Union to detonate nuclear bombs on US soil, but gave up when the Soviets warned that radioactive fallout from the blasts could harm nearby Cuba.
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The National Security Archive, a private research group at George Washington University, recently made public documents that reveal the nuclear threat in new detail. ...

The Pentagon study attributes the Cuba revelation to Andrian A. Danilevich, a Soviet general staff officer from 1964 to ’90 and director of the staff officers who wrote the Soviet Union’s final reference guide on strategic and nuclear planning.
In the early 1980s, the study quotes him as saying that Mr. Castro “pressed hard for a tougher Soviet line against the U.S. up to and including possible nuclear strikes.”

The general staff, General Danilevich continued, “had to actively disabuse him of this view by spelling out the ecological consequences for Cuba of a Soviet strike against the U.S.”

That information, the general concluded, “changed Castro’s positions considerably.”

In addition, yours truly ran an expose on liberals' beloved idol, Che Guevara, and his ties to Castro's dreams of a US nuclear holocaust well before the New York Times. Humberto Fontova wrote "Murder & Myth: The Truth Behind the T-Shirt" for Townhall's June 2009 issue, exposing Guevara, the celebrated "revolutionary," as the brutal killer and tyrant he really was:

[During the time that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis], Fidel Castro and Che Guevara had salivated over the prospect of a much more satisfying holocaust. "If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S., including New York City," boasted Guevara in November 1962. "The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims." ...

But for the prudence of Nikita Khruschev, the Butcher of Budapest, those "millions of atomic victims" might have come about. ...[M]any serious analysts conclude that Fidel's and Che's genocidal fantasy was a much bigger factor in Khrushchev's decision to yank the missiles from Cuba than President Kennedy's utterly bogus bluster, threats and "blockade."

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