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Is It Time to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?
The Soho Forum Debates
Why We Shouldn't Use Nuclear Weapons
When we were fighting in viet nom and our troops were surrounded at caison, general westmoreland asked for washington to consider using nuclear weapons. When the french soldiers were surrounded by the viete men at denbin fu, there were discussions among the eisenou administration officials about giving three tactical nuclear weapons to the french. In 19 91, george h w. Bush scrapped that strategy, pulling all but a symbolic handful of those weapons out. And when secretary defense dick chaney suggested that the use of nuclear weapons be explored in the run up to the gulf war, the study produced by colan powell was so damning that the idea was unceremoniously dropped
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