June 09, 2003
Half a Hiroshima
Moveon.org's newsletter focuses on the Bush administration's moves in the past few weeks to lift the ban on the development of 'low-yield' nuclear weapons. These are bunker busting warheads with an explosive force of 5 kilotons or less (about one third of the force of bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki). What's most worrying is that they are more "usable" according to those pushing for their development.
Read more in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted by Paul Miller at June 9, 2003 07:52 AM
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