>It's along the lines of what the right-wing ideologues in the
>Bush camp had been pushing for, based on a January 2001 report of the
>National Institute for Public Policy, a conservative think tank headed
>by Dr. Keith Payne, who co-authored an infamous 1980 piece in Foreign
>Policy called "Victory is Possible" about a "winnable" nuclear war.
>Stephen Hadley (Condoleeza Rice's deputy), Stephen Cambone (who was
>staff director of the Rumsfeld commission on third world missile threats
>and Rumsfeld II on military uses of space), and Robert Joseph (another
>Bush NSC appointee) were all involved in the NIPP study and the Bush
>nuclear posture review. There was some hope that Colin Powell, who had
>indicated in his memoirs a gut opposition to ever using nuclear weapons,
>would moderate the urge towards "usable nukes." The naming of the
>targets and some of the scenarios under which nukes might be used (a
>conflict over the status of Taiwan, an Iraqi attack on Israel) are the
>most troubling new details -- and the fact that as usual, when push
>comes to shove, the neanderthal conservatives always seem to win out
>over the moderate conservatives in the intramural battles of the Bush
>foreign policy team.