Monday, March 20, 2006
New Pentagon Doctrine: Mini-Nukes are "Safe for the Surrounding Civilian Population"
GlobalResearch.ca
The Dangers of a Middle East Nuclear War by Michel Chossudovsky February 17, 2006
The Dangers of a Middle East Nuclear War by Michel Chossudovsky February 17, 2006
... Senate Republicans John Warner (R-VA) and Wayne Allard (R-CO) buried a small provision in the 2001 Defense Authorization Bill that would have overturned these earlier restrictions... Senators Warner and Allard imagine these nuclear weapons could be used in small-scale conventional conflicts against rogue dictators, while leaving most of the civilian population untouched. As one anonymous former Pentagon official put it to the Washington Post last spring, "What's needed now is something that can threaten a bunker tunneled under 300 meters of granite without killing the surrounding civilian population." Statements like these promote the illusion that nuclear weapons could be used in ways which minimize their "collateral damage," making them acceptable tools to be used like conventional weapons." (See http://www.fas.org/faspir/2001 / click v54nl, italics added) | |
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This article elaborates on two earlier texts by the author: Nuclear War against Iran, January 2006 Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran, May 2005 | |
