From: slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2002
From www.debka.com:
The turn of events in Paktia brings forward the prospect, revived this
week, of the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the global war on
terror.
(This possibility was first disclosed in our intelligence newsletter
DEBKA-Net-Weekly in early October 2001, three times in the course of
the same month in DEBKAfile and again on November 26, 2001).
This week the Los Angeles Times reported that President Bush had
ordered the Pentagon to draw up contingency plans for the use of
nuclear weapons and a list of seven nations for targeting: Five -
North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria - are either terror sponsors
or developers of weapons of mass destruction.
DEBKAfile’s military experts recall in this regard the
announcement made by the American deputy secretary of state for
disarmament, John Bolton, on February 21 that Washington had decided
to depart from its traditional policy of nuclear non-use against
non-nuclear powers. The exceptions would be made in the cases of
terrorists, their sponsors and states developing weapons of mass
destruction.
Bolton’s statement was received in Baghdad as a signla that the
United States has decided to use nuclear weapons in its coming
offensive, and Saddam Hussein regime has made preparation.
D. The US armed forces are looking harder at the development of small
nuclear bombs for tactical use. Given the setbacks in Tora Bora and
the Shah-e-Kot Valley - for lack of intelligence and reliable Afghan
allied troops - US military planners may lean further towards the use
of tactical nuclear weapons to finish off the Taliban and al Qaeda
strongholds still defying conventional means of warfare.
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From: "nu-monet v4.0"
Rev. Lemuel Atom wrote:
>
> From www.debka.com:
>
> The turn of events in Paktia brings forward the prospect,
> revived this week, of the use of tactical nuclear weapons
> in the global war on terror...
Okay, take a deep breath. Now relax. There's a mantra
I like to go over when I get the nuclear willies:
"Some of the smaller tactical nuclear weapons have explosions
almost identical in size to a high-explosive round fired from
an 8" howitzer. And unless you measure the crater within 48
hrs., the typical radiacmeter will not detect significantly
higher radiation. There are a also large number of tactical
weapons in the inventory between this small size and the 1 kt(*)
range, whose detonation would only be noticeable on the ground,
by satellite, or with highly sensitive seismographs."
(*) Hiroshima was 12.5kt
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