lbo-talk-digest V1 #5788

[joanna bujes]

At 10:37 AM 03/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>It's all about the bottom line so nobody's really going to use the damn
>things. Strangelove crazy talk is great for generating procurements, but
>nobody listens to them in a real crisis. Which bourgie or sleazeball
>bureaucrat wants to risk a nuclear exchange and lose everything?
>Conventional bombs and bombers have gotten so huge and deadly that
>battlefield nukes aren't worth the hassle either. There's no sense in wiping
>out an enemy force with just one bomb and risk irradiating millions of
>civilians when you could do the same with a few hundred tons of bombs and
>Boeing can make 20K on every 1000 pounder, the B1 proves it can actually fly
>and drop bombs, a market for hand-held bomb guidance devices is created,
>etc..
>
>The only places where nukes risk being used in wartime is against SLBM subs
>and hardened nuke silos.

Hope you're right.

Joanna