In the years after the fall of the Soviet Union and building up to 9-11 there were a number of Congressional hearings on asymmetrical warfare and super terrorist attacks. These were the new threats on the radar of American war planners. One of the characters making the media interview and Congressional testimonial rounds was Col. Stanislav Lunev. He is a purported GRU or Soviet Intelligence defector who reported that the Soviets had planted "suitcase nukes" inside America. After 9-11 a number of stories ran in the media expressing the worry that suitcase nukes would be used in the United States. It was reported that Bin Laden the former CIA asset who led and financed the Afghan Mujaheddin insurgency against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan bought ten suitcase nukes for 30 million dollars of heroin.
These stories look to be an example of psychological priming on the part of American ruling class to avert an all out nuclear war with Russia. I say this because it seems unlikely that Russia would have lost control of these nuclear weapons. In fact the newly elected Russian President denied that Russia had documentation of suitcase nukes missing from the Russian inventory. So, the priming would be aimed at conditioning the American public to think that a suitcase nuclear attack on America was a terrorist attack and not a Russian attack. American capitalism has to do this in order to save the nation from a full nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States. This would allow the American ruling class to reproduce the system of capitalism.
Suitcase Nukes Stories:
http://www.wnd.com/2002/10/15377/
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132173&page=1
https://www.amazon.com/Through-Eyes-Enemy-Autobiography-Stanislav/dp/0895263904
Definition of Priming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
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