By Aaron Klein
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President Barack Obama answers a reporter's question about his tax compromise as he meets with President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on December 8, 2010. UPI/Dennis Brack/POOL Photo via Newscom
The government of France expressed deep concern President Obama's rhetoric and policy of nuclear disarmament will harm the Western world's ability to deter threats from aggressor countries, according to U.S. State Department cables revealed by WikiLeaks and reviewed by WND.
France also was dismayed Obama's nuclear summit held last April did not single out Iran's illicit nuclear program, but instead focused on the disarmament of the West.
"France's concerns go beyond the conference, however, to include larger issues of the link between disarmament and deterrence, as well as non-proliferation," read a July 2009 cable from the U.S. embassy in Paris summarizing the French position on Obama's nuclear stance.
France took specific issue with a series of remarks from Obama that the French believe could be used to the "advantage" of nonproliferation treaty violators.
Among Obama's concerning remarks:
* "The notion that prestige comes from holding these weapons, or that we can protect ourselves by picking and choosing which nations can have these weapons, is an illusion." – Obama in Moscow in August 2009.
* "No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons." – Obama in his address to the Muslim world from Cairo in June 2009.
Stated the cable: "Several of our French interlocutors have expressed concerns that these statements focus more on disarmament than on non-proliferation."
The cable summarized the French position: "For France 'nuclear weapons are not bad or good, they just are.' Thus, France continues to oppose the phrase 'a world free of nuclear weapons,' which... implies a moral judgment."
The cable was referring to a draft resolution for Obama's nuclear summit, which was the largest gathering of world leaders for nuclear issues.
France also opposed British government rhetoric in which some politicians from the Labor party talked about the need to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether.
"UK rhetoric suggests that nuclear weapons are inherently bad, thus implying that maintaining a deterrent force is immoral," read the cable, relating French concerns.
Obama's nuke agreements mean to disarm U.S.?
Besides his nuclear summit, Obama last April also pledged with Russia to reduce stocks of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium and signed an agreement that will lower the deployed U.S. nuclear arsenals.
Obama's "science czar," John Holdren, long has petitioned for these moves at a magazine whose personnel were used for the benefit of Soviet propaganda in an attempt to disarm America, according to a former top intelligence official from the USSR.
The magazine's founders were accused of providing vital nuclear secrets that helped the Soviets develop an atomic bomb.
The magazine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been urging the U.S. to surrender its nuclear arsenal to international control.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, with Holdren on the board of directors from 1984 until recently, long has petitioned for the U.S. to reduce its nuclear stockpiles. According to Pavel Sudoplatov, a former major-general in Soviet intelligence, this kind of work by the magazine editors was for the benefit of the Soviet Union.
Holdren is assistant to the president for science and technology, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and co-chairman of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists began publishing regularly in 1945, when it was founded by former physicists from the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb.
Two of the magazine's founding sponsors, Leo Szilard and Robert Oppenheimer, were accused of passing information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviets. Both were also key initiators of the Manhattan Project.
In 1994, Sudoplatov, a former major-general in Soviet intelligence, identified Szilard and Oppenheimer as key sources of crucial atomic information to the Soviet Union.
"The most vital information for developing the first Soviet atomic bomb came from scientists engaged in the Manhattan Project to build the American atomic bomb – Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard," wrote Sudoplatov.
Sudoplatov wrote the Soviet Union "received reports on the progress of the Manhattan Project from Oppenheimer and his friends in oral form, through comments and asides, and from documents transferred through clandestine methods with their full knowledge that the information they were sharing would be passed on."
Oppenheimer was accused in Senate hearings of bringing communists into the Manhattan Project. He brought his brother Frank and three former graduate students into the project, all of whom, according to Senate hearings, were well known to him to be "members of the Communist Party or closely associated with activities of the Communist Party."
John Holdren
Oppenheimer admitted he knew by August 1943 that two of the scientists working under him were Communist Party members. Three of five scientists under Oppenheimer's direct supervision were accused of leaking secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviets.
On Oct. 25, 1945, Oppenheimer met with President Truman at the White House, urging him to surrender the U.S. nuclear monopoly to international control. Truman was outraged, reportedly telling Secretary of State Dean Acheson, "I don't want to see that son-of-a-b---- in this office ever again."
Magazine used for 'Soviet propaganda'
Oppenheimer and Szilard were stripped of their work in the Manhattan Project, but they continued to use the bulletin to petition for the U.S. to surrender its nuclear arsenal to international control.
"[Soviet politician and security chief Lavrentiy] Beria said we should think how to use Oppenheimer, Szilard and others around them in the peace campaign against nuclear armament. Disarmament and the inability to impose nuclear blackmail would deprive the United States of its advantage," wrote Sudoplatov.
Sudoplatov said his spymasters knew the lobby efforts of the bulletin editors would be a "crucial factor in establishing the new world order after the war, and we took advantage of this."
Another bulletin founding sponsor, Edward U. Condon, was mentioned by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in a May 1947 letter as having contact with an alleged spy who had passed information to the Soviets from 1941 to 1944.
Holdren worked alongside communist sympathizers
When Holdren started work on the bulletin in 1984, communist and socialist sympathizers still occupied the magazine's masthead.
The New Zeal blog notes the bulletin's board of directors in 1984 included:
* Board chairman Aaron Adler, who also served on the board of the Chicago Center for U.S./USSR Relations and Exchanges, alongside Larry McGurty of the Communist Party USA. Adler was also a member of what New Zeal labels a Communist Party front, the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights. He was also involved in a committee to celebrate the 100th birthday of Communist Party member Paul Robeson.
* Bernard Weissbourd, a former Manhattan Project scientist who later served on the transition oversight committee for incoming Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, who was active in Communist Party fronts.
* Weissbourd's son, Robert M. Weissbourd, later served as chairman of the Obama for America Campaign Urban and Metropolitan Policy Committee and on the Obama Transition Housing and Urban Development Agency Review Team in 2008.
* Ruth Adams, bulletin editor, who served in the 1960s on the Advisory Committee of the Hyde Park Community Peace Center. Other center members included lifelong communist front activist Robert Havighurst, communist activist and radical Trotskyist Sydney Lens and Quentin Young, an avowed communist who has advised Obama on health care.
Holdren in Cold War
WND first reported Holdren visited the Soviet Union during the Cold War as vice chairman of a group whose founder was accused of providing vital nuclear information that helped the Soviets build an atom bomb. The original leaders of the group, the Federation of American Scientists, also served on the board of the bulletin magazine.
Just after President Reagan's March 1983 "Star Wars" speech in which he proposed a missile-defense shield to protect the U.S., a group of Soviet academicians sent a letter to the U.S. scientific community asking about the feasibility of such a shield.
The only group that responded directly to the Soviet scientists was the Federation of American Scientists, or FAS, leading to an invitation to visit from Evgeny Velikov, director of the Soviet Kurchatov Institute of Science.
Physicist David W. Hafemeister relates in his book, "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today," how he was part of the FAS delegation to the USSR along with Holdren, who at the time was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
The FAS is non-profit organization formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project. The FAS long has petitioned for nuclear disarmament.
Szilard was a principal founder of the FAS. Founders of the FAS also were board members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Along with Szilard and Oppenheimer, WND found other FAS founders that served on the bulletin board, including nuclear physicists Eugene Rubinowitch, Hans Bethe and V. F. Weisskopf
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