Gadzoooks!!! I about soiled myself like Diddle E. Need to get some shut eye.
Posted on 03/09/2002 1:07:48 AM PST by kattracks
The White House has ordered the Pentagon to prepare plans for using nuclear weapons against at least seven countries and to build smaller nuclear bombs for certain battlefield situations, according to a published report today.
Tops on the nuclear hit list are China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria, according to a classified Pentagon report obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
"This is dynamite," Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear arms expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, told the newspaper. "I can imagine what these countries are going to be saying at the UN."
The Times said the secret report, given to Congress on Jan. 8, says the nuclear weapons could be used against targets able to withstand nuclear attack; in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, or "in the event of surprising military developments."
The report says the Pentagon should be prepared to use nuclear weapons in an Arab-Israeli conflict, in a war between China and Taiwan or in an attack by North Korea on the south, and possibly in an attack by Iraq on Israel or another neighbor.
The call for a limited-range arsenal was seen as an important deterrent against enemies who doubt the U.S. would use larger weapons in certain situations because of the widespread death and destruction they would cause.
The U.S. has long had a detailed plan for nuclear attack on Russia, but the new Nuclear Posture Review apparently marks the first time an official list of potential targets has been compiled.
The report acknowledges Russia is no longer officially an "enemy," but cites concern about the huge Russian arsenal of about 6,000 deployed warheads and some 10,000 smaller "theater" weapons, The Times said.
Pentagon spokesman Richard McGraw declined comment because, he said, the report is classified.
Nuclear analysts predicted to the newspaper that the report would draw strong reaction, but some insisted the Pentagon must be ready — especially after Sept. 11 — for all contingencies.
One nuclear expert, John Isaacs, president of the Council for a Livable World, said, "This is very, very dangerous talk.... Dr. Strangelove is clearly still alive in the Pentagon."
U.S. policy generally has been to consider the use of nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states only if they are allied with nuclear powers.
according to a classified Pentagon report .............Nothing new IMHO they just quit using the Old SAC Green Dot 8 SIOP's for a door stop or somebody stumbled over em in a old CD shelter being remodeled for Tom Ridge and his merry band of gopher shadows....... Wallah ! .....War Plan's......
Stay Safe !
Yeah.
Lots of it.
With a nuke, a little amiss does not matter much. The blast area will take care of it.
Alright, who's going to jail for releasing classified info?
Stay Safe !
Need I say more...
The good news is the Bible predicted this long ago and said "unless those days are shortened, NO flesh would survive". God is AWESOME, and is the only being in the universe that the word awesome can actually be applied. Everybody says awesome this and awesome that, I say anything man does awfulsome, what God does is AWESOME. Like turning this hell of a place into heaven in 3 1/2 years. Getting closer to eternity every day!!!
A couple weeks ago Pat Buchannan said the same thing in a television interview.
Gadzoooks!!! I about soiled myself like Diddle E. Need to get some shut eye.
Look at this shameful example of media bias. The got two "experts" for the article and both are from radical left wing anti-military anti-nuclear groups.
I'll bet you five bucks that the "leak" was done on purpose.
There's little point in having a nuclear deterrent if the people you're trying to keep in line don't know how ready you are to use it.
This leak was good strategy.
I add Palm Beach county.
Bingo! Members of Congress are told only what there is good reason to tell them ("good" meaning: serves the objectives of the intel community and/or executive branch.)
I would agree it is good for those targeted to know that they are. That should be public information. I still maintain, however, that releasing classified information ought to involve hard time.
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