Documents: U.S. had plan to nuke N. Korea

United Press International/Washington Times ^ | November 8, 2004 | United Press Internatioanal

[Gefreiter]

I agree.

And it's not just the US. Any professional planning staff in any country's armed services had BETTER be making plans to address a variety of scenarios. To do any less is grossly irresponsible.

Note to press: get a clue.

[Anticommie]

Documents: U.S. had plan to nuke N. Korea

Hope the plan is still on the table.

[sukhoi-30mki]

The 1st plans to use nukes against NK(& China as well) were made way back during the Korean war after China entered the conflict.Back then it was the B-47s-now it's F-15Es & B-2s.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This seems unlikely. Submarines could do the job without risking a single pilot.

[50 Cal]

So what is the holdup. If GWB really wanted to impress me North Korea and Iran would have both been reduced to glowing embers by now.

[KarlInOhio]

I think someone in the army was working on them in the 1950s.

[jimt]

And probably the 1970s and 1960s.

Make that for sure in the 1970s.

[WmShirerAdmirer]

Thanks for the insights, never thought about plans already being in place anyway for any place, any time, any circumstances. You are all right about this.

Aside from Washington Times article, no notice, mention nor screaming coming from the major media. Had the news item had GW's name in it and a year date like 2002 or 2003, I'm sure all hell would break loose. Could this have something to do with Clinton wanting to head up the UN as future Secretary General?

[12 Gauge Mossberg]

If Truman would have stayed out of the way and let MacArthur do his thing, we wouldn't have to worry about China or NK.

Truman is the most overrated President ever. The only good thing he did was to nuke Japan which forced them to surrender instead of an invasion which would have costed thousands of U.S. lives.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It would've cost over 1 million lives. More Japanese than Americans.

[sukhoi-30mki]

IIRC,only US SSBNs have nukes with their Trident missiles(with MIRV capability) as the US has taken out it's Nuclear Tomahawks(though the capability exists).The nuclear variant of the Tomahawks were known to have warheads of varied yield including tactical ones with less than 10 KT-something that a Trident missile probably does not & a conflict such as in North Korea would require tactical nukes to avoid the possibility of massive collateral damage & fallout(WRT to China,south Korea & Japan & US forces) & also take out their extensive military installations.The F-15Es have always carried such weapons & bombers like the B-2 & B-1B could very well have that role with their stand off ALCMs.

[Chemist_Geek]

I would hope that we, as a country, as a nation, have a plan to nuke any and all of our declared enemies.

Declared, nothing. I'm sure we've got plans, somewhere in a file cabinet in the Pentagon, to attack any nation on Earth.

[Core_Conservative]

And this is a suprise to who? (Or is it whom?)

[Centurion2000]

It's not drastic. NKorea would kill the city of Seoul if they reach it.

We have plans to nuke practically everyone. You can thank the German military school of throught from the Bismark for that one. Contingency war plans are part of strategy

[elizabetty]

We have plans on the shelf to bomb Canada, why is this a plan to nuke North Korea a shock?

[ThinkDifferent]

I would be more worried if the Washington Times came out with a story that we DID NOT have a plan to fight against North Korea.

Well said.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Newly declassified documents revealed the United States planned as recently as 1998 to drop nuclear bombs on North Korea if the country attacked South Korea.

Well I should hope so! Should we drop bunny rabbits instead?

I would be shocked if we didn't. Am I the only sane person left in a world gone mad?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I wouldn't worry about collateral damage. Curtis LeMay didn't the last time.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Well Curtis LeMay lived in a different world where only the US had nukes & the rest of the world was already half in ruins .If any nukes are to be used on NK,the Chinese reaction will have to be watched (& both NK & China have nukes & the means to deliver them) -after all North Korea is China's surrogate in the region.If China reacts with hostility against the US,you will also have to bring Russia into the equation.

[Fiddlstix]

There are nuke plans for every enemy...and 10 other conventional warfare plans to cover any possible scenario. What did people think, we had nukes and they sit in a warehouse somewhere? That we don;t pay our military officers to plan and prepare?

BINGO!
One would think that people of average intelligence would be able to figure it out. It doesn't take an Einstein.