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Subject: Re: US to use chemical weapons?
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Date: 2 Sep 90 06:10:45 GMT
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From: att!utzoo!henry
>From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
>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 [oilfield]
>fighting.

Nobody in his right mind is going to authorize use of anything nuclear in
a relatively minor war.  Everyone is better off if nuclear weapons continue
to be seen as weapons of desperation only.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry