means all-out nuclear war she blocks our use of any nuclear
weapons short of all-out war.
We can escapethis straitjacket
only if we promise restraint, and develop the nuclear weapons to
carry out that promise - clean weapons, and smaller ones.
We
must think to do the one, and test to do the other.
MILITARY:
Hard targets such as concrete runways and buried commbpnd
posts require high yield surface burst weapons.
areas of nuclear contamination result.
Vast and deadly
Friendly forces, friendly
populations, or neutrals may be threatened.
It may become a
choice between moral, political, and military considerations, Rnd
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the latter may suffer.
Or the others.
Either way, clean weappns
—
by greatly reducing the area and degree of contamination, reduce
the problem.
It is sometimes necessary to traverse or to occupy suchjareas
shortly after burst.
This is much easier if the weapon is clean.
Many weapons, even air burst, may raise local contamination
to dangerous levels, as well as increase the world-wide contamination.
Clean weapons permit local military operations within such loqal
limits.
Clear thought and changed nuclear and national policies will
not cure all our ills.
But confusion in these matters has confqunded
our friends and delighted our enemies who so greatly benefit
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