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Military need for clean weapons is slight.
can be done with present designs.
weigh more than normal ones.
in nuclear materials.
The jo
Ley
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Clean weapons
They_are more expens ive
Why pay penalties in the ab Bence
of need’
This almost universal reaction by military men ove
looks the fact that moral, political, and wartime
tactical considerations may impose crippling limit
upon military freedom of action.
é& Little reflecth
and imagination will uncover many possibie situati OTIS .
Tne military is accustomed to no restraint in such
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matters, and does not yet realize that universal
«
Pars
of the nuclear weapon have already imposed restrai NES
damaging to our national interest.
Greater restra ints
may be imposed in war.
We do not imow
which.
Or iesser.
Political leaders and civilians are reluct ATIC
to trust the power of nuclear weapons in military nands ,
primarily because there has been no trend toward s
restraint.
Restraints will ease to the extent the
public comes to respect military judgment, intent,
capability to use minimum nuclear force as require d to
stop Russian aggression.