("pre-emptive nuclear attacks"? and they haven't been locked up as
criminally insane mass killers?)
1�� GOP plan would revive use of nuclear arms
Policy paper urges new generation of warheads
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/
14/MN245233.DTL
February 14, 2003��
A group of House Republicans proposed a fundamental shift in America's
nuclear weapons strategy on Thursday, saying the GOP would push for the
design and manufacture of a new generation of warheads, a more aggressive
policy on their use and steps that would make it easier to resume nuclear
testing. The group of 23 lawmakers, as members of the policy committee that
helps set the House legislative agenda, specifically called for the repeal
of a decade-old law that prohibits the development of smaller, low-yield
weapons of less than 5 kilotons. The panel, known as the House Policy
Committee, also urged that the U.S. government be allowed to initiate
pre-emptive nuclear attacks against hostile nations with caches of
biological or chemical weapons. It called upon the government to rebuild
industrial sites for manufacturing key nuclear components and to speed up
preparations for a resumption of underground testing after a 10-year
moratorium.
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