Documents Show US Mulled Nuking China

[unhappycamper]

Documents Show US Mulled Nuking China
May 01, 2008
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - President Dwight D. Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in the summer of 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China if communist forces blockaded the Taiwan Strait, according to declassified Air Force documents.

Eisenhower "made it clear that the Chinese would be given a warning with conventional explosives before he would authorize dropping of the deadlier ordnance" on Chinese territories, according to the documents made public by George Washington University's National Security Archive.

The president had the support of a congressional resolution to use force in defense of Taiwan. His decision not to use nuclear weapons still left them available if needed for subsequent attacks, according to the newly released narrative by a contemporary Air Force historian, Bernard C. Nalty.

Disclosure of the top-secret document was one in a collection obtained by a freedom-of-information lawsuit filed by the Archive after more than a decade of requests that the documents be declassified, said William Burr of the Archive.

As the crisis grew, according to the papers, five B-47 bombers on Guam went on alert in mid-August to conduct nuclear raids against Chinese airfields.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/documents-show-us-mulled-nuking-china.html

[CBGLuthier]

1. Oh well, As long as he gave them warning

Before incinerating their children, why hell, that's just peachy fucking keen A-OK .

A bully is a bully regardless of the intentions and murdering any country's citizens because of the actions of its government, well I guess that's just the american way.

[nebenaube]

2. Damn...

We have them, we have used them, we threaten to use them and we all know that it is just a matter of time and we will use them again. By Bush's own doctrine, the entire world has every right to annihilate us. With leaders like ours who needs enemies?