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To: Jerome who wrote (53518)	10/2/2001 10:17:01 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 70976

Jerome, Missed my question. Should we use nukes if they use weapons of mass destruction. Thats how cold war was kept cold. No one had any doubt that nukes would be used in retaliation. My feeling is that if deterrence is to remain credible for countries on the fence, we need to make an example of the first folks who use these things. So, for instance, if there is a chem attack in the US then WC's neutrons get used. Do you agree? mike

To: Jerome who wrote (53518)	10/2/2001 10:25:44 AM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

NEUTRON AND OTHER SUCH "DETERRENTS" Not wishing to be disrepectful, but anybody who is proposing such use for ANY presumed benefit just has not been paying any attention to the President, Secretary of State or even the Secretary of Defence. The "enemy" this time through is NOT a single nation, or even a readily recognizable subset of any nation. The enemy first of all has to be identified, tracked and followed, documented, seen to have which political sponsors, financial sponsors, any other kind of sponsors. Then all that has to be shut down. It is IMPOSSIBLE for the US or any SINGLE nation to do this. Profound cooperation will have to take place. In the process, the ROOTS and ROOT-CAUSES of terrorism will have to be eliminated. Anybody who proposes neutron or any such bombs is proposing to use Cruise Missiles to settle a dispute with neighbors over the size of the fence. It gets a result, yes. But it destroys the possibility of a solution. Namaste! Jim