The truth about Japanese nukes and US deterrence

[dArKeR]

Every now and then articles or reports are published that are so wide of the mark that they cry out for rebuttal. Two separate dispatches, one from the political Right, the other from the Left, have uttered equal nonsense.

From the Right, a report from the US Senate Republican Policy Committee urged the US to play a Japanese nuclear card in demanding that China force North Korea to give up its plans to acquire nuclear weapons.

And from the Left, an anti-American essay by a China specialist at Chatham House, the research center in London, asserted that the Bush administration and its "neocon" allies are planning a war against China that the US cannot win.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/06/03/2003257768

[bpilgrim]

1. the "nuclear allergy" - or how we over came our fear of the cold (war)

for a HOT one.

`The primary restraint in Japan is the "nuclear allergy" that is the legacy of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago.'

the world is NUTS

peace