The United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, killing millions. The leaked documents now reveal a similar horrific revelation about China. According to the Mail Online, the documents show that in 1958, the US government considered a nuclear attack on China to protect Taiwan from China. The threat posed by the Soviet Union was that it would come to China's aid and launch a retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States. The Americans had considered whether the cost of protecting Taiwan would be reasonable if the Soviet Union did indeed launch a retaliatory nuclear attack.
According to the report, these documents were posted online by 90-year-old American economist Daniel Ellsberg. Daniel Ellsberg is known for leaking Pentagon documents related to the 1971 Vietnam War. "I have had copies of these documents since the 1970s, but I am leaking them at a time when tensions between China and the United States over Taiwan are rising again," Ellsberg told The Times.
