There is no reason to believe that the Swiss don’t have an atom bomb. They, like Israel, have a surplus of physicists and metalurgists, as well as a long running and U.N. supported civilian atomic energy program. The kind of stuff America ships it’s subsidized Utah mined Uranium to and that gives a nice waste product: Plutonnium. Yes that kind of Plutonium. The stuff of the Nagasaki bomb. The question is: givien Switzerland’s stated Neutrailty and Defense Policy of “Cost of Admission”… a defensive strategy. Would they feel the need for retalitory (MAD stryle ICBMs)nukes, or more likely Tacticle nukes? The later could be used to detonate mountains and damns to make the alps a sort of monumental Midevil type defensive fortress… with burning water in place of hot oil and walls and parapets the size and comprised of literal mountains. It is widely known that Israel has had the A-bomb and possibly the H-bomb since the sixties. It has always denied it for the purposes of appearing to be living up to various treaties regarding atomic energy and nuclear proliferation. The U.S. China, France, Great Britain, and the former Soviet Union all looked the other way. What is lest discussed, is the Legend of the Neutral/ Swiss and possibly Swedish bombs. Let us not forget that the Swiss and Swedes make an awful lot of first rate weaponry. The Swedes having the Saab aerospace industry, infact make one of the world’s most sophisticated and lethal fighterjets, the Griffin, etc. The Swiss also have one of the fiercest airforce’s in the world, flying figheters from all the major compainies with the theory that they can use the parts from and repair anything they shoot down, or capture. If you are going to build the worlds most elaborate warren of bomb shelters and you believe you can survive an Atomic War in Europe? Would you still want to have your own bomb? I think you might just to wave the stick, but you wouldn’t want to show the stick.. just leave it under your coat like a sheleighlei (sp?)
The idea occured to me as I watched a documentary on the British strategy at Yrpes. The British held an ugly little bulge for two years. The bulge provided three positions (front side and side) from which the German artillary and snipers could fire at the British. On the surface, it seemd like a tactical disaster, but the whole time, the British were using the world’s best coal miners to dig mine shafts under the German trenches (high on a strategically key ridge along the Somme) then taking six weeks to fill the tunnels with high explosive and then at three in the morning on June 6th 1916, detonating the entier ridge at Ypres – creating the world’s largest man made explosion on earth up untill that point and maybe untill Hiroshima. It killed 25,000 German Soldiers in seconds (burrying many with their heads sticking out of what had been trenches… the earth squeezing in on them like a vice). The British rushed in and took 3,000 yards of terrain, including a third of the ridge. It seems like peanuts in a post Blitzkrieg world, but was a monumental shift in the theater of WWI…
a truley demented act of human Folley… the war to end all Wars… and the Gods Shrugged: “HA”.
The books here are finishes of starts by postrme1962 for the Library.
