http://editorseye.com/WordPress/2007/11/07/mythic-nation/ i run my own damn think tank Sat, 19 May 2012 04:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://editorseye.com/WordPress/2007/11/07/mythic-nation/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Safe for Civilians (in Other Countries) | Twelfth Bough Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:02:07 +0000 http://editorseye.com/WordPress/?p=60#comment-217 [...] On the one hand, we’re told we must stop Iran at all costs from having any nuclear technology at all. Too dangerous (for Israel). And yet on the other hand, nuclear weapons are actually “safe for civilians”. Oh, right. It’s because the Iranians are evil and we are good that we can say that, dangerous mythology I’ve been trying to dispose of here and here. But I digress… The new nuclear doctrine turns concepts and realities upside down. It not only denies the devastating impacts of nuclear weapons, it states, in no uncertain terms, that nuclear weapons are “safe” and their use in the battlefield will ensure “minimal collateral damage and reduce the probability of escalation”. The issue of radioactive fallout is barely acknowledged with regard to tactical nuclear weapons. These various guiding principles which describe nukes as “safe for civilians” constitute a consensus within the military, which is then fed into the military manuals, providing relevant “green light” criteria to geographical commanders in the war theater. [...] [...] On the one hand, we’re told we must stop Iran at all costs from having any nuclear technology at all. Too dangerous (for Israel). And yet on the other hand, nuclear weapons are actually “safe for civilians”. Oh, right. It’s because the Iranians are evil and we are good that we can say that, dangerous mythology I’ve been trying to dispose of here and here. But I digress… The new nuclear doctrine turns concepts and realities upside down. It not only denies the devastating impacts of nuclear weapons, it states, in no uncertain terms, that nuclear weapons are “safe” and their use in the battlefield will ensure “minimal collateral damage and reduce the probability of escalation”. The issue of radioactive fallout is barely acknowledged with regard to tactical nuclear weapons. These various guiding principles which describe nukes as “safe for civilians” constitute a consensus within the military, which is then fed into the military manuals, providing relevant “green light” criteria to geographical commanders in the war theater. [...]

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