The Nazis consolidated their Holocaust plans at the Wannsee Conference (German: Wannseekonferenz) on January 20, 1942. They envisioned killing 11,000,000 Jews.
In December, 1960, the Strategic Air Command devised the Single Integrated Operational Plan for General Nuclear War at the Offutit Air Force Base in Nebraska. Previously, the Army, Air Force and Navy had separate plan on launching a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Now it was all coordinated. The anticipated death toll was staggering for the people in the Soviet Union and neighboring countries .Two hundred seventy five million would die in the first hour. Three hundred twenty five million would die in the next 6 months. Other countries would suffer too. The US would lost 100 million. North and South America would lose 100 million. China would lose 300 million.
This was long before Carl Sagan announced that nuclear winter would kill everybody. The Pentagon, of course, said that Carl Sagan was wrong.
Only General David M. Shoup, the US Marine Corps commandant, objected to this world-wide Holocaust envisioned in SIOP (Single Integrated Operational Plan).
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Ask you two senators and your congressman to reduce the US nuclear arsenal to 1,000. My hope is that people in the US and other countries will wake up and realize that there is no winner in a nuclear war. Nikita Khrushchev told everybody that in a nuclear war that the survivors would envy the dead.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
Ed