At 01:26 AM 3/3/00 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote: > >Must be a typo - isn't it >"HOW Should The United States Use Nuclear Threats To Deter >Chemical and Biological Attacks? A Debate." :-) The only way this would be politic (and even then it wouldn't) would be to put a small nuke in a bunker buster munition and make sure it goes off deep underground. I don't know if this is possible; the forces in a BB might exceed that of being launched from an artillery shell. Otherwise you can't use airbursts, for something as petty as Osama or Saddam. IMHO. IANADiplomat.
