Scandal In The Pentagon: A Challenge To Democracy - William McGaffin & Erwin Knoll
Scandal In The Pentagon: A Challenge To Democracy - William McGaffin & Erwin Knoll
THIS BOOK DARES TO REVEAL…..
-How our massive military establishment has come to wield incredible power in the United States
- How it has squandered billions of dollars on obsolete or ui
workable military projects
- How it has maintained immunity from effective supervision or control by the executive branch or Congress
- How its scare tactics have brainwashed
the citizenry into
helpless agreement
- How it already has planned to sanction the murder of 30 to 50 million American citizens
- How it has assumed the role of arms merchant to the world by pressuring foreign governments to buy American weapons
- How the ABM, conceived in politics, nurtured on the expectations of the profit-hungry defense industry, has been sold as the
"perfect defense" when scientists have proved its defects and shown
that its deployment carries the peril of
unprecedented escalation of the arms race
"WE ARE NOW TOLD THAT THE U.S. AND RUSSIA BETWEEN THEM HAVE STOCKPILED NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF APPROXIMATELY THE EXPLOSIVE POWER OF 15 TONS OF TNT FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD ON EARTH. AND NOW IT IS SUGGESTED THAT WE MAKE MORE...."
-Professor George Wald,
Harvard University,
1967 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics