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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (251484)	4/26/2002 4:59:42 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

airpower.maxwell.af.mil defenselink.mil "In June 1949 the House Committee on Armed Services launched an investigation into charges, emanating unofficially from Navy sources, ... Navy representatives questioned the current U.S. military plan for immediate use of atomic weapons against large urban areas when a war started....The Air Force countered that atomic weapons and long-range strategic bombers would deter war, but that if war nevertheless broke out, an immediate atomic offensive against the enemy would contribute to the success of surface actions and reduce U.S. casualties."