A secret memo from the FBI’s archives has revealed that Britain’s Winston Churchill once urged the US to drop an atomic bomb to "wipe out" the Kremlin. He reportedly thought it was the only remedy against the spread of communism to the west.
Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II and again during the Cold War 1950s, made his views known to a visiting American politician in 1947, The Daily Mail reported in a preview of a new book, “When Lions Roar: The Churchills and The Kennedys” by investigative journalist Thomas Maier. The book containing the secret FBI memo is to be published next month.
Britain and the Soviet Union had been allies during WW2. However,
according to the memo written by an FBI agent, Churchill asked a
Right-wing Republican senator, Styles Bridges, to help persuade
then-President Harry Truman to launch a nuclear attack which
would make the former USSR easy to deal with.
The FBI memo claims Churchill insisted that the "only
salvation for the civilization of the world would be if the
President of the United States would declare Russia to be
imperiling world peace and attack Russia."
The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb in 1949, much to
the surprise to the United States, which was apparently unaware
that the Soviet Union possessed nuclear weapons.
Britain’s wartime leader allegedly pledged that if an atomic bomb
could be dropped on the Kremlin, "wiping it out," it
would be "a very easy problem to handle the balance of
Russia, which would be without direction."
Churchill, who served as British PM twice, from 1940-45 and
1951-55, warned that if this was not done, Russia would attack
America within "the next two or three years, when she gets
the atomic bomb and civilization will be wiped out or set back
many years."