Posted on 01/25/2003 6:43:36 AM PST by ewing
The United States is quietly preparing for the use of tatical nuclear weapons in a war against Iraq and military planners have been actively studying lists of potential targets, the media reported Saturday.
The preparations include possible use of so called 'bunker buster' nuclear weapons against deeply buried military targets the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday morning quoting William M. Arkin.
Defence officials have been focusing their plans on the use of tatical nuclear arms in retaliation for a strike by the Iraqis with chemical or biological weapons, or to preempt one, the daily said.
US Administration officials believe that in some circumstances, using nuclear arms may be the only way to destory deeply buried targets that may contain unconventional weapons, the report said.
Some officials have argued that the blast and radiation of effect of such strikes would be limited.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
It sounds like a technical publication but it is just a political dumping ground for greenies, socialist/communists and technophobes.
And the poll is on globalfreepress.com so I suppose it can't hurt to mention it here again.
Oh well, I guess sometimes you just have to make sacrifices.
That certainly describes a tactical nuke.
agreed-jus thought we should be tryin to keep breakin news on FR site 'pure'....but, what is news anyway? for many of us it's got a big entertainment component-we are too removed from the facts to really know what the heck is reality at the gubmint level...
Excellent point, I too was an “intelligence analyst” for 4 years, but as an enlisted man, I spent as much time cleaning heads and policing cigarette butts as combing through top secret material. After 5 – 10 years, I forgot more than I still knew. I couldn’t imagine getting out and going on to “become an authority on nuclear weapons”. Lol!
Just another reason to love Free Republic.
Neutron? A couple of them dropped in the middle of a few palaces might just do the trick if Saddam uses any WND during or prior to the conflict.
Sure, that wouldn’t pull the plug on anti- terrorism cooperation we're getting from Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa, South America and the Antarctic. Tens of millions of radioactive civies wouldn’t send the rest of the world scrambling to the UN’s world government vision for protection. That wouldn’t nations racing into covert WMD programs. Why is it that the Left is able to portray us as Kooks again?
One kiloton per presidential palace, in deep penetration mode should be about right.
The use of TACTICAL nukes won't make the use of STRATEGIC nukes, by our militarily near-equal geo-political rivals one whit more likely.
But they'll quickly dot the eyes of the ankle-biting vermin we must deal with.
Nukes are just tools.
We just need to remember to operate them with all guards securely in place while wearing our safety glasses...
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Interesting question. I think this is what going after Iraq is all about. The US believes that Saddam will attack Israel sooner or later with his WMDs. Israel would retaliate with deadly force. Other Arab countries would join in the fracas and the whole thing would turn into a bloody, regional war in a place from which the world gets a great deal of its oil from. This of course will have far reaching effects in terms of world economic stability, much worse than WTC. Say what you want about blood for oil, but people will suffer without the oil. This is exactly what the militant muslims would like to see happen and this is what Bush is trying to prevent. The stonewalling by the UN,Germany, France has been a big side show and has distracted from and obscured the real purpose of getting rid of Saddam. Why they are stonewalling is kind of mystery to me. All I can figure is that they are guilty of complicity with Saddam or this is part of some big international face-saving ruse they are putting up.
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