Nixing nukes in Vietnam

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 52-59

  Hayes, Peter ^a   Tannenwald, Nina ^b  

^a Nautilus Institute   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33747698046     PISSN: 00963402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2968/059003013     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Freeman Dyson, interview, January 8, 2003 (www.nautiIus.org/VietnamFOIA/ report/JASONs.html).
2. For more on the JASONs, see Gregg Herken, Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 152-56.
3. Steven Weinberg, communication with authors, December 25, 2002 (www.nautilus.org/VietnamFOIA/report/JASONs.html).
4. Robert Gomer, e-mail communication January 31, 2003, from forthcoming autobiography, used by permission of the author (www.nautilus.org/VietnamFOIA/ report/JASONs.html).
5. Seymour Deitchman, "An Insider's Account on the 1967 JASON Report," February 25, 2003 (www.nautilus.org/VietnamFOIA/report/insider. html).
6. Dyson, January 8, 2003.
7. Weinberg, December 25, 2002.
8. F. Dyson, R. Gomer, S. Weinberg, and S. C. Wright, Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia, Study S-266, JASON Division, DAHC 15-67C-0011, Washington, D.C., March 1967 (hereafter referred to as "JASON Report") released under U.S. Freedom of Information Act request, December 4, 2002 to Nautilus Institute (www.nautilus.org/VietnamFOIA/report/report.html).
9. Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (New York: Basic Books, 1979), p. 149.
10. JASON Report, p. 4.
11. JASON Report, Ibid., p. 12.
12. JASON Report, .Ibid., p. 4.
13. JASON Report, .Ibid., p. 46.
14. JASON Report, .Ibid., p. 47.
15. JASON Report, .Ibid., p. 7.
16. JASON Report, Ibid., p. 49.
17. JASON Report, .Ibid., p. 50.
18. JASON Report, p. 4.Ibid.
19. JASON Report, .Ibid., p. 51.
20. Dyson, Disturbing the Universe, p. 149.
21. Deitchman, "An Insider's Account. ".
22. Deitchman, "An Insider's Account."Ibid.
23. Robert McNamara, communication with the authors, February 19, 2003.
24. Robert McNamara, communication with the authors, March 5, 2003.
25. Interview with Daniel Ellsberg, January 3, 2003 (www.nautilus.org/ VietnamFOIA/background/ellsberg.html).
26. Document 233, Par VI, (Analysis of Option B), Section F, Likely Developments and Problems if the Communist Side Engaged in Major Retaliation at Some Point, states that "As operations develop, air and naval attacks will be increased in scope and intensity against Chinese forces and into southern China to increase the pressure on the Chinese communists." The Pentagon Papers, Senator Gravel Edition, Volume 3 (Beacon Press, 1971), p. 639;.
27. OPLAN 32-63 refers to "limited nuclear operations in Southeast Asia." OPLAN 32-64, the "Defense of Mainland Southeast Asia" was a "unilateral capabilities plan, revised and promulgated in September 1962" that "remained CINCPAC's principal plan for the defense of mainland Southeast Asia up to the point of general war." CINC-PAC Command History, 1963, 1964, released under U.S. Freedom of Information Act request to Nautilus Institute, p. 38 (www.nautilus.org/VietnamFOIA/analyses/bulletin.html).
28. William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball, "Nixon's Nuclear Ploy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2003, pp. 28-37, 72-73.
29. Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1964 (New York: Athenaeum Publishers, 1965), p. 311.
30. David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson and the Origins of the Vietnam War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 432.
31. Dyson, January 8, 2003.
32. Nina Tannenwald, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
33. Dyson, January 8, 2003.
34. JASON Report, pp. 46-17.