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Date Posted: 12:54:48 03/09/02 Sat
Author: Socialist Sally
Subject: What makes America so belligerent?

The Los Angeles Times reports the Bush administration has told the Defence Department to prepare contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries.

Citing a classified Pentagon report, the newspaper reports the military was also directed to build smaller nuclear weapons for use in certain battlefield situations.

The countries named in the secret report - provided to Congress on January 8 - were China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria.

The three contingencies listed for possible use of the weapons were against targets able to withstand non-nuclear attack; in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons; or in the event of surprising military developments.

The report says the Pentagon should be prepared to use nuclear weapons in an Arab-Israeli conflict, in a war between China and Taiwan, or in an attack from North Korea on the south.

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They might also become necessary in an attack by Iraq on Israel or another neighbour.

Officials have long acknowledged that they had detailed nuclear plans for an attack on Russia.

However, this Nuclear Posture Review apparently marks the first time that an official list of potential target countries has come to light.

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