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Decisive Force?

12:28am Thursday, 20th March 2003

I stumbled upon an interesting report, written in the US in 1967, which has recently been declassified at the request of American research institute The Nautilus Project. The report weighs up the possible consequences of a US decision to use tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam, though it also looks in passing at the possibilites of the same weapons being used by terrorists.

Proof that Freedom of Information bills can turn up some pretty scary documents...

Read the report here.


Comments

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Well I'm sold...up to a point. What jars with me a little in this analysis is that we must work with what we've got. The western powers did not pursue the post 9/11 strategy that Held emotively outlines. So the question we have to ask is, does Blair ultimately want to steer the Bush administration in that direction (on issues like Kyoto, development assistance to Africa etc.)? If so, will he be able to? What are the conditions that are going to strengthen or weaken his capacity to do so? In short, can Blair help to win the fight to regain "an alternative strategy for a rule-based and justice-oriented, democratic multilateral order" from within, or does he stand in its way?
Posted by Paul Paul  at 11:52am on Friday, 21st March 2003

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