[2628] in peace2
Re: Nuke ship to be christened on Nagasaki day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rhett Creighton)
Sat Jul 19 19:57:01 2003
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:00:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rhett Creighton <rhett@MIT.EDU>
To: elrond@mit.edu
cc: will taggart <zen@mit.edu>, <julias@mit.edu>, <peace-announce@mit.edu>
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I can't believe we have a ship that carries nuclear missles. That's
completely stupid. Protest the crap out of this thing. Also, don't post
messages like this to this list. You should send things like this to
peace-discuss.
Rhett
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 elrond@MIT.EDU wrote:
> 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 withdrawn from service and removed from all surface ships and subs by George HW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...
>
