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Article: No justification for the use of nuclear weapons
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2003
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No justification for the use of nuclear weapons
By WADE BOESE
Date: 02-11-2003, Tuesday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B
IF IT COMES TO WAR in Iraq, President Bush should heed the example
set by his father before the 1991 Persian Gulf War and rule out the
possible use of nuclear weapons. The elder Bush did not want to become
the second president in history to order a nuclear attack, and neither
should his son.
Yet there is evidence that the current administration is wrongly seeking
to blur the decades-old distinction between nuclear and conventional
weapons as it contemplates contingencies for using nuclear weapons
on ...