http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/772/1/64/Lists seven nations as targets A story in the March 10 edition of The Los Angeles Times revealed that the Pentagon has drawn up a list of seven countries who are prime targets for U.S. nuclear weapons in the event of undefined “surprising military developments.”
The report, titled “Nuclear Posture Review” (NPR) and signed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield, and delivered to Congress on January 8, is already being used by the U.S. Strategic Command to develop a new generation of low-yield bunker-busting min-nukes and other nuclear weapons and to prepare a plan for their use.
The NPR, which outlines several situations where the use of nuclear weapons could be “justified,” offers a chilling glimpse into the world of nuclear war-planners who, with a Strangelovian genius, cover every conceivable circumstance.
Although there have always been nuclear hawks in the Pentagon, the review reverses the a decades-long policy that saw the use of nuclear weapons only in situations when the nation’s most basic interest or national survival is at risk.
Until now, behavior of the most hawkish military planners has been tempered by the belief, shared by most thoughtful Americans, that the unrestrained use of nuclear weapons in war could end life on Earth as we know it. snip
The Chinese foreign ministry said that country was “deeply shocked” to be included on the NPR hit list while the Russian foreign minister said Moscow expects explanations from a “higher level” than televised comments by Cheney and Powell.
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