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Article: Scientists Urge Bush to Limit Nuclear Missions; U.S. Nuclear Weapons Unnecessary to Deter Attacks by Non-Nuclear States, Terrorists
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- U.S. Newswire
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- March 13, 2002
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WASHINGTON, March 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Union of Concerned
Scientists today called on President Bush to declare that the sole
purpose of U.S. nuclear weapons is to deter and, if necessary,
respond to the use of nuclear weapons by another country.
"The Bush administration appears unaware that its policies will
stimulate nuclear proliferation," said Dr. Kurt Gottfried, a
physicist at Cornell University and UCS Chairman. "The U.S. has
conventional military forces that dwarf those of all possible
adversaries combined. If the U.S. plans to resort to nuclear weapons
to fight far weaker opponents, what does that tell those who do not
yet have nuclear weapons?"
The Bush administration's ...