TALKS OF USING A-BOMBS IN VIETNAM
‘Another influential voice joined the war hawks headed .by -_ such figures as. former.President Eisenhower, in suggesting the use : of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. In a. nationwide. television program. October 9, Senator John Stennis, a Democrat of Mississippi who heads the Senate preparedness subcommittee declared: a
Ie. we aré committed toa landlocked war with great. hordes of men, we may have to use tactical weapons and I would use them rather: than. see our men: suffer eine loss. ees
‘Stennis. was not merely talking about the next step. in- esca— lating the war in Vietnam; he was alluding, he said, to the = possible entry of China and a massive land army into the conflict.
Stennis' advocacy of the use of "tactical" nuclear weapons .fits in with the line of thinking of a sector of: the Pentagon and the Johnson administration who want to make a "pre-emptive strike". against China, even though this may Signal the opening of a third world war and a nuclear holocaust in which all of humanity might perish.
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