If You Build It, They Will Come
Rumsfeld’s Baby Nukes and the War on Terror
by Abhinav Aima

As any physicist will tell you, the explosion of a nuclear weapon, irrespective of its size, will create a radioactive area of a significant size such that a failure in human intelligence or the often repeated cycle of collateral damage will cause an exponentially larger casualty rate than a conventional weapon. Even a nuclear burrowing bunker buster would release lethal doses of radiation into the earth and the air. If a nuclear weapon were to explode near a crop field or a source of drinking water, the human tragedy would be all the more significant.

The idea of using nuclear weapons against its enemies is another means for the Bush administration to use a weapon of infinite terror against those Bush deems terrorists. Yet the unabashed recklessness with which this administration commits follies should give pause to most intelligent people when deciding whether weapons of such awesome and terrible destructive capacity should be in the hands of a president whose doctrine of foreign policy is based predominantly on preemptive wars.

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