Nuclear Weapons We Don't Need

The Washington Post | May 14, 2003| | Copyright

Last month the United States put on the most impressive display of precision bombing in the history of warfare and demonstrated the unmatched power of the U.S. military. But despite this overwhelming conventional superiority, the Bush administration is looking to pursue new nuclear weapons too -- nuclear weapons designed to be used on rogue-state battlefields.

Congress is now considering whether that's a good idea, as it marks up and votes on the 2004 defense authorization bill, in which the Bush administration has asked for a repeal of the ban on producing low-yield nuclear weapons, $15 ...

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