The Beginning of the 'Unthinkable'

When, fifty years after the end of the Second World War, it was time to lift the secrecy restrictions, in the archives of the British Kingdom a project of an operation was found—an adventurous one dubbed “The Unthinkable.” In the struggle with the Soviet Union for world leadership, the governments of Britain and the United States were ready to consider even the possibility of a new war. No wonder the captured German weapons had been carefully gathered and stockpiled, so that if necessary it could be returned to the German soldiers who had surrendered as prisoners. But neither Churchill nor Truman ever decided to go for an open conflict with the Soviet Union. After all, if they had only dared to unleash another war, the Soviet Union would have answered with all its might…