Lev Navrozov
Friday, Aug. 29, 2003

Published in Denmark was the international magazine Nuclear Physics. My wife was the editor of its Soviet branch at the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow. Suddenly there was an instruction from above: no more research in nuclear physics. The Soviet rulers wanted post-nuclear research for post-nuclear superweapons.

Such as? Every Soviet nuclear physicist knew the name of Richard Feynman, an American nuclear physicist, and read whatever he published. In 1960 he published an article about nanotechnology. That was one of the post-nuclear fields that are now considered by many nanotechnologists the likeliest candidates for the development of post-nuclear superweapons capable of destroying enemy means of nuclear retaliation.

When we emigrated from Soviet Russia and came to New York in 1972, I told the editor of the New York Times Magazine and the CIA that the Soviet rulers were developing post-nuclear superweapons. Twenty years later it became obvious that I had been right – in 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin opened to international inspection the Soviet development of bioweapons, which defied the international convention of 1972.

The point is not how the Soviet rulers had planned to use these weapons. The point is that the Soviet rulers were striving beyond Mutual Assured Destruction and the peace it had mutually assured. That is, they were planning an aggressive war with post-nuclear superweapons, expected to destroy the Western means of nuclear retaliation. In the 1970s, neither the New York Times nor the CIA believed me or anyone else who said what became incontrovertible in 1992. So, in 1978, I convinced the following outstanding Westerners to become members of the Advisory Board of a not-for-profit corporation, "The Center for the Survival of Western Democracies,” with myself as its president:

Saul Bellow, writer and scholar, Nobel Prize in Literature

Leo Cherne, Director, Research Institute of America

Dr. Sol Dutka, CEO, Audits and Surveys

Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham (Ret.), former Director, DIA

Dr. Sidney Hook, philosopher

Eugene Ionesco, writer and essayist, France

Dr. Russell Kirk, philosopher

Dr. Seymour Lipset, Professor, Stanford University

Ambassador Clair Boothe Luce, essayist and writer

Malcolm Muggeridge, writer and scholar, Britain

Mihajlo Mihajlov, scholar and journalist

J. A. Parker, Adviser on African Affairs, U.S. Senate

Albert Shanker, President, AFT, AFL-CIO

Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, Director, FARI, Britain

Dr. Edward Teller, Professor Emeritus, University of California

Dr. William R. Van Cleave, Professor, University of California

Dr. Albert L. Weeks, Professor, New York University

Dr. William C. West, Senior CIA Analyst (Ret.)

In 1986, the Chinese rulers founded Project 863 for the development of post-nuclear weapons in seven fields, including genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Though the event has been amply reflected in the Chinese press (as a measure to counter "American imperialism”), few Americans have even heard of Project 863. The U.S. political establishment and mainstream media silence about Project 863 is more deafening than the silence about the development of post-nuclear weapons in Soviet Russia prior to Yeltsin’s 1992 revelation.

In the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, there were influential political forces alert to the "Soviet threat,” but in the past few years Communist China has been represented to the general public in the United States only as a peaceful, humane country, valued for its trade, cheap manpower and destination for American tourism, complete with Beijing duck.

Last May, China and Russia announced their military partnership.

Obviously, CSWD, Inc., is more vital for the survival of the democratic West now than it was at its foundation a quarter of a century ago.

As we renew our Advisory Board, we want to attract scientists and technologists in the fields, such as nanotechnology, where post-nuclear superweapons are expected to be developed. We hope that with the members of our Advisory Board we will be able to maximize our efforts in the study of, for example, nanotechnology in China and in the education of the general public as to the danger of post-nuclear superweapons in that vast empire (now in military partnership with Russia) about which the Western political establishment has been so ominously silent.

On Aug. 20, I received an e-mail from K. Eric Drexler, the "Newton of nanotechnology." Sending his best wishes to the Center for the Survival of Western Democracies (the great scientist has read its Program), he writes that "examining molecular manufacturing technologies from a competitive military perspective has received too little attention."

Ironically, the Chinese press and the Chinese Internet contain a wealth of information on the development of nanotechnology in China, and this information can be used for examining it "from a competitive military perspective," as Dr. Drexler points out in his e-mail.

Why is China not at all secretive about its post-nuclear weapons, the way Soviet Russia was? Chinese propaganda asserts that the United States is after world domination and that Chinese post-nuclear weapons of defense against it are as legitimate, virtuous and noble as any Western weapons, be it swords, firearms or Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s to intercept nuclear missiles and thus to violate Mutual Assured Destruction. Sadly, the invasion of Iraq is more grist for the Chinese propaganda mill.

The link to my book online is www.levnavrozov.com. My e-mail is navlev@cloud9.net. You can also request our webmaster@levnavrozov.com send you by e-mail my outline of my book.

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