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Yes, but what of the standing order known as Clinton's PDD 60 - to absorb a first strike?

Nealz Nuze
Sept 1, 1998 Neal Boortz, AM750WSB, Atlanta
CLINTON NUCLEAR POLICY

Have you heard of Presidential Decision Directives? Probably not, and that means that you haven't heard of Presidential Decision Directive No. 60.

Clinton's PDD 60 rescinds an earlier directive from President Reagan signed in 1981. That directive made it clear that America would be prepared to fight and win a nuclear war if it became necessary.

Clinton's directive removes victory as a goal in a nuclear confrontation. The official policy of the United States is now to absorb a nuclear blow, and then try to defuse the situation without retaliation so as to avoid a full-blown war.

Again --- under our draft-dodging Commander in Chief, for the first time since the beginning of the cold war, victory in a nuclear war is no longer a strategic goal of the American military.

Draw your own conclusions.

Pres. Bush, what say you?

[WALLACE212]

I'm dying to know myself.

[Poohbah]

My bet: if it has not been formally rescinded in a classified PDD, then it is a mere "declaratory policy" to keep the soccer moms from panicking, while Bush quietly announces to the rest of the world that Clinton's idiotic PDDs do not in any way, shape, or form, act as a constraint on President Bush's actions.

[ksen]

Yes, but what of the standing order known as Clinton's PDD 60 - to absorb a first strike?

There is a website here that lists President Bush's directives. There is one listed called "NSPD4". The description next to it says "Review of U.S. nuclear offensive and defensive postures". Maybe that changes what x42 did. I couldn't find the text, but maybe someone else can.

-ksen