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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US to use chemical weapons?
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Date: 30 Aug 90 03:02:47 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


In article <1990Aug28.043142.404@cbnews.att.com> HARPER%ccvax.ucd.ie@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes:

>As none of the Western nations desire to fight among the oilfields and
>installations due to the enormous cost of replacing plant, what options
>are available except chemical weapons?  

What about neutron bombs?  Since the advantage of enhanced radiation weapons
is that they can kill personnel while doing relatively little damage to the
local infrastructure, I'd think they'd be ideally suited to that kind of
fighting.


Geoff


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