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frame of mind.
It will change with time.
MORAL:
To overkill by radioactivity and excessive yield is immoral.
Current moral objections to all nuclear weapons are based upoy
this principle.
The question is not academic.
There is a latent}
inspiration in the possibility of a clean nation seeking to fight clean,
and able to do so.
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We cannot now.
Nor can we exercise restraint
with present weapons, nor have we shown any intent to exercise
restraint.
We must.
A dirty weapon cannot be made clean without redesign.
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basically clean weapon can be made dirty, almost by adjustmen}.
If we had a basically clean stockpile, easily adjustable to dirty,
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The advantages are obvious.
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POLITICAL:
How long will neutrals or friends in areas of limited war femain
neutrals or friends after suffering heavy casualties from our inpfis-
tee
' criminate weapons?
How long will NATO remain NATO if its
citizens are destroyed by our weapons?
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They are already askiy
these questions in Europe, and getting no answers.
Russia has achieved her objective of banning the bomb. DY
achieving a massive deterrent of her own she has made all-out
nuclear war unacceptable to us.
By inciting the fear that any w Papon
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would lose no deterrent thereby and could fight clean if we chosp.
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