WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Fallout from Bush's tactical nukes on the American West
by Alex Roth, an attorney & writer in Portland, Ore./SF Chronicle

Bush's surreal atomic contradictions reflect the logic of Dr. Strangelove's generation: He wants to curtail nuclear proliferation by proliferating nukes, wants to minimize the threat of nuclear war by making nuclear weapons more practical to use and seems to be enforcing his international consensus against weapons of mass destruction in part by implicitly threatening to nuke the uncooperative.
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