Lev Navrozov
Friday, Jan. 23, 2004

As a result of the Allied victory over Hitler's Germany and the Allied agreements at the end of the victorious war, Stalin seized Eastern Europe, but his subjugation of it by his police was misinterpreted in the democratic West as the beginning of Stalin's war for HIS "world domination," the phrase that had originally been correctly applied to Hitler but that JFK misapplied to Soviet Russia up to 1962.

Yet Stalin had not seized Eastern Europe by war: Roosevelt and Churchill had given it to him in the expectation that their dear friend Stalin would let the countries of Eastern Europe be independent and choose the form of government the majority of their population wanted. Alas, "Marshall Stalin" did not prove to be that paragon of "honor" and "good faith" that Churchill described in the House of Commons in 1945.

But this did not mean that Soviet Russia could or would attack the United States. In fact, in the 1960s, neither Soviet Russia could attack the United States, nor vice versa, because of Mutual Assured Destruction – no nuclear weapons could destroy the other side's means of nuclear retaliation, such as submarines deep under water with nuclear missiles aboard.

Yet the fear of Soviet subjugation (similar to that of Eastern Europe) as a result of a Soviet attack was ubiquitous in the United States throughout the second half of the ‘40s, the ‘50s and the ‘60s, and even in the late ‘70s a film shown by mainstream U.S. television portrayed Soviet Russia attacking and subjugating the United States. In one scene, the burly Soviet soldiers machine-gunned all members of the U.S. Congress.

It is easy to machine-gun several hundred unarmed civilians. But how had Soviet Russia overcome Mutual Assured Destruction? Those who made and showed the film possibly knew nothing about Mutual Assured Destruction.

Exposed for decades to the fictitious danger of a Soviet invasion and subjugation, many Americans became acutely sensitized to the "Soviet threat." Remember those huge, ugly Soviet soldiers machine-gunning the Congress of the United States!

But China? What has China done? Seized Tibet and is threatening to seize Taiwan? Well, this has been regarded by many in the democratic West in the same way that Nazi Germany's seizure of areas populated by Germans was regarded by many in the democratic West in 1938 – as a sign of German patriotism and national concern for all members of the German nation.

While the creators of the U.S. film, featuring in particular the Soviet shooting of the U.S. Congress, seemed to have known nothing about Mutual Assured Destruction, the Soviet strategists realized in the 1960s that their nuclear missile arsenal was sufficient for Mutual Assured Destruction. At the same time, nuclear weapons were outdated as offensive weapons against a nuclear country.

Hence the Soviet dictators launched in the early ‘70s the development of post-nuclear superweapons that could circumvent Mutual Assured Destruction by destroying the Western means of nuclear retaliation. This is when the danger of a Soviet attack on the West began.

No matter how big the nuclear arsenal is, how powerful its weapons are and how precise are means of their delivery, they cannot obliterate the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean in order to destroy a submarine deep under water with nuclear missiles aboard. But molecular nano assemblers, for example, are expected to be able to pass through any ocean, find the submarines with nuclear weapons aboard and reduce both submarines and missiles to dust.

True, some American (not Chinese) nanotechnologists proclaim that molecular nanoweapons will never exist. Well, eight years before the first aircraft flew, the New York Times declared through some of its experts that aircraft would never exist or would exist no sooner than in 1 million or 10 million years – but 20th century wars proved to be impossible without aircraft.

Soviet Russia successfully exploded its first nuclear bomb in 1949, and about 20 years later the Soviet dictators realized that nuclear weapons were finished as offensive weapons against nuclear countries.

Communist China successfully exploded its first nuclear bomb in 1964, and about 20 years later the dictators of China had a sufficient nuclear missile arsenal for Mutual Assured Destruction and realized that nuclear weapons were finished as offensive weapons against nuclear countries. Hence in 1986 they founded Project 863, which has been developing post-nuclear superweapons in eight fields, from genetic engineering to molecular nanotechnology.

Russia ceased to be a democracy soon after Putin became president. But there are many complex and ambivalent intermediate authoritarian states or stages between the absence of democracy and totalitarian dictatorship.

The form of government in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century was "semi-constitutional monarchy." It was a far cry from the dictatorship of Lenin, who defined his dictatorship to justify his unlimited ruthless reprisals.

Only when Putin establishes "totalitarian dictatorship" will he resume the Soviet (pre-1991) development of post-nuclear superweapons. After his dictatorship has been established, he will be able to afford the luxury of his quest for world domination, or at least for the annihilation of the West ("in partnership" with the dictatorship of China?) in order to suppress all subversion of his "totalitarian dictatorship" from without.

Dictatorship is vulnerable. Kings under absolutism drew their legitimacy from their royal birth, and modern heads of state and government draw it from a majority vote. There is nothing from which a dictator can draw his legitimacy. Thus Mao became a dictator because Stalin helped him rout the Kuomintang in 1949. But what is legitimate about it? For his part, Stalin had become a dictator by killing all of Lenin's other associates, such as Trotsky.

A dictator can make his legitimacy less vulnerable to subversion, the threat of which the democratic West poses by the very fact of its existence. To that end, a dictator has only to annihilate (by post-nuclear superweapons) the democratic West.

Most Americans were prepared, from the mid-1940s to the 1970s, for the possibility that Soviet Russia would attack the United States (and shoot the U.S. Congress). Yet in 1972, when I brought the news to the United States that the Soviet dictators were developing post-nuclear superweapons, I could not make the American public believe this fact, though President Reagan publicly supported my view after he read my Commentary article and met with me.

If such was the general American disbelief with respect to Soviet Russia in 1972, despite decades of the general American belief in the "Soviet threat," it is no wonder that most Americans have not even heard of Project 863, though its foundation in 1986 was described in the Chinese press, available to any American tourist, and on the Internet, available anywhere in America.

Yet the development of post-nuclear superweapons in China is much more dangerous than it will be in Putin's Russia when Putin resumes the Soviet development of post-nuclear superweapons.

(1) After 1991 the project of development of post-nuclear superweapons in Russia crumbled and lost its scientists and engineers – particularly to China. On the other hand, the project in China has been collecting the best scientists and engineers from all over the world, including Russia.

(2) Dictatorships can mobilize human and other resources without any war. Four times more scientists and engineers graduate every year in China than in the United States. But the population of Russia has decreased by half, as a result of the country's disintegration, and is now one-eighth that of China.

(3) The development of post-nuclear superweapons in Russia was purely Soviet, parochial, isolated from the world. The relevant project in China is truly international. A Western top scientist or engineer considers it an honor to work in such a peaceful and progressive country, loved by both U.S. Republicans and U.S. Democrats.

(4) The trade surplus of Sino-American trade exceeds $100 billion a year – the Chinese dictators' pocket money to attract the world's best scientists and engineers.

(5) Chinese giant scientific-technological conferences (for example, in nanotechnology) attract great numbers of scientists and engineers and make it possible to invite the very best to work in China.

(6) Western universities and laboratories are open to those Chinese who will work in the development of post-nuclear superweapons in China.

(7) Chinese "private capitalist corporations," actually controlled by the dictatorship, convince U.S. corporations of unique geostrategic value to move to China to employ cheap labor and sell their products or services to the "government of China."

(8) The combination of modern development (2,000 skyscrapers in Shanghai alone as against 20 such buildings in the whole of Japan) and exquisite traditional culture (the Chinese cuisine is second to none in the world) makes the sojourn of a foreign scientist or engineer in China pleasant and interesting.

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