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Posted by jamie on 10 October 2006.
Praise be for the tabloid press. On the cover of today's Current Bun, they've illustrated their report on the North Korean nuke test not with the seismograph that adorns most other papers, nor even a considered portrait of enigmatic premier, Kim Jong Il. Instead they've plumped for his marionette double as seen in puppet political satire, Team America: World Police. Not that I'm trying to show the Sun up as a reactionary rag pumped full of stereotypes and dangerous generalisations. If I was, I'd be tarred with the same brush because as I watched the reports on last night's news, exactly the same images were going through my head.
Developing 'usable' nuclear weapons
The smaller nuclear weapons become, the more likely they are to be used in areas of conflict such as Iraq
'Usable' nukes
In the past five years the US military has developed an aggressive new nuclear doctrine: military documents such as 2002's Nuclear Posture Review and the 2005 Pentagon paper Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations revealed that that nukes may be used as 'weapons of first resort' as well as being integrated with conventional forces.