The FBI's archives shows a memo revealing that Britain's Winston Churchill once urged the U.S. to drop an atomic bomb to "wipe out" the Kremlin in order to stop the spread of Communism from its eastern shores, according to RT News. The British prime minister from 1940-45 and 1951-55, made this point to an American politician in 1947, according to the preview of a new book, "When Lions Roar: The Churchills and The Kennedys" by investigative journalist Thomas Maier, to be published next month.

Britain and the Soviet Union were World War II allies, but Churchill was just looking for a way to prevent Communism from spreading. He seemed to be one of the first international statesmen to understand that the USSR posed a threat after the war. In 1946, he gave a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, pointing out that an "iron curtain" had come down across Europe even as Joseph Stalin strengthened his rule in the eastern half of the continent, according to the Daily Mail.

It is revealed in a memo written by an FBI agent that Churchill told a visiting Republican senator, Styles Bridges, in 1947, that he should tap the then President Harry Truman to launch a nuclear attack and expose the USSR, so that the Cold War could be contained. The FBI memo reveals that Churchill insisted that the U.S. President had to declare that Russia was endangering world peace, so that it could be attacked.

In 1947, the Soviet Union would have not been able to defend itself against a nuclear bomb, as it was only in 1949 that the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb, which threw the entire world into a storm of speculation and tension, according to Daily Mail. Britain's solution expounded by Winston Churchill seemed to be that Kremlin should be bombed and wiped out, so that the rest of Russia could be thrown into a situation without direction. Otherwise, he felt that Russia would attack America soon as soon as she got armed with the atomic bomb and wipe out the entire civilization, or set it back by centuries.

Interestingly, John F. Kennedy, who regarded Churchill as his hero, promoted him as an honorary American citizen in 1963, which was the first time anyone was honoured in this manner.