[lbo-talk] Nixing Nukes In Vietnam

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sat Apr 19 16:36:35 PDT 2003


On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Michael Perelman wrote:


> My mother's cousin was part of a group that studied the feasability of
> using nuke's in Korea. They decided that the fallout would drift South,
> threatening the US troops. For that reason, they were not used.

Just out of curiousity, do you know offhand if that's ever been asserted in print anywhere?

I wonder if this had any direct relation with the experiments shortly thereafter in the Nevada deserts subjecting troops to fallout and seeing how it affected them.

Michael



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