[2627] in peace2
Re: Nuke ship to be christened on Nagasaki day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elrond@MIT.EDU)
Sat Jul 19 18:24:07 2003
From: elrond@MIT.EDU
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 18:22:21 -0400
To: will taggart <zen@mit.edu>
Cc: rhett@mit.edu, julias@mit.edu, peace-announce@mit.edu
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Sorry to write to the whole list, but I wanted to try and clarify the status of
this ship. I can't write too much now since I am in a rush, but I wanted to
point out that these destroyers are most definately nuclear capable in the
sense that they are designed to carry Tomahawk cruise missiles which were
widely deployed with 200 kT warheads starting back in the early 80's. (That's
10 times the yield of the Nagasaki bomb on each missile). These nuclear land
attack variants of the Tomahawk (also refered to TLAM/A) were unilaterally
withdrawn from service and removed from all surface ships and subs by George HW
Bush under his Presidential Initiative on Nuclear Arms in 1991. This was part
a move to provide cover for the Russians getting their tactical nukes out of
areas they were soon to loose control over. These decisions can be reversed at
anytime and more than a thousand of these W80 warheads are warehoused around
the country, ready for redeployment at anytime. Since this was a unilateral
move, it can be undone without comment. In addition, the push by W. to create
new tactical nukes is already seriously jepardizing his father's initative. So
just as we refer to the aircraft as nuclear capable even though they have never
carried nukes into battle, this is a nuclear capable war(death) ship. I am
already late for my meeting, so I will end there. I hope this helps to clarify
things...
