UN General Assembly
2023

Like many other countries. Russia knows that from first-hand experience. In 1945. when together with Washington and London we were defeating the enemy on the front lines of the Second World War. our allies in the anti-Hitler coalition were already planning a military operation — Operation Unthinkable — against the Soviet Union. Four years later, in 1949. the Americans developed Operation Dropshot, designed to launch massive nuclear strikes on the Soviet Union. Those insane plans remained on paper, and the Soviet Union created its own retaliatory weapon. It took the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. when the world teetered on the brink of a nuclear war. for the idea of unleashing such weapons and the illusion that they could bring victory to cease to be a basis for the United States’ military planning.