Subject: ＥＥＥ会議（北朝鮮への先制攻撃：ペンタゴンの極秘計画）
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:00:43 +0900
From: "kkaneko" <kkaneko@eagle.ocn.ne.jp>

各位

イラクの後は北朝鮮だとみられています。米国では北朝鮮に対し核兵器による先制攻
撃を行う可能性をペンタゴンが極秘に検討中、との情報を先日（３月１日）お届けし
ましたが、最近の国務省国際情報局のプレスリリースによれば、数名の有力上院議員
（主に民主党所属）が、米国による核兵器の先制使用は世界的な核拡散を促進すると
して強い反対を表明した由。　また、最近秘密解除された公文書で、ベトナム戦争中
にも戦術核兵器の使用が真剣に検討されたが、今回イラクや北朝鮮に使う可能性が高
いのは深地中貫通型核兵器（いわゆる「バンカー・バスター」）で、爆発力は広島へ
投下されたものよりずっと小さく非戦闘員への被害は最小限で済むと、ペンタゴンの
戦略家たちは考えている由です。　同プレスリリースのさわりは以下のとおり。　全
文に関心ある方は次のサイトをどうぞ。
http://usembassy.state.gov/#EA

金子熊夫
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Text: Senator Says U.S. Must Not Sanction First Use of Nuclear Arms

(Says such an action could provoke weapons proliferation) (1130)

The United States should never sanction the first use of nuclear weapons
because such an action could serve as a pretext for other nations or
terrorist organizations to use such weapons against the United States,
says a member of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence.

Nuclear planning by the United States "could serve as a pretext for other
countries and, worse, terrorist groups such as al-Qaida, to build or
acquire their own bombs," Senator Dianne Feinstein (Democrat of
California) warned Senate colleagues in remarks March 10.

Feinstein said that if the United States is not careful, "our own nuclear
posture could provoke the very nuclear-proliferation activities we are
seeking to prevent."

The Pyongyang regime "apparently believes the United States may be
planning nuclear strikes of its own," she said, noting that on March 1
North Korea "warned that a war on the Korean peninsula would quickly
'escalate into a nuclear war.'"

Feinstein, who is the ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee on Technology and Terrorism, said there have been reports
that "tactical nuclear weapons, particularly 'bunker busters,' have been
considered by Pentagon planners in the context of the escalating nuclear
crisis with North Korea."

Many American analysts also believe there is "a great danger that North
Korea, if its survival was at stake, would be willing to sell its nuclear
arsenal to the highest bidder," according to Feinstein.

Feinstein, who also serves on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on
Defense, cited a 1967 study by U.S. scientists who recommended against the
use of tactical nuclear weapons by the United States in the Vietnam War.

"The bottom line of the study is that the use of nuclear weapons in
Vietnam -- to block the Ho Chi Minh trail, kill large numbers of enemy
soldiers, or destroy North Vietnamese air bases and seaports -- would have
offered no decisive military advantages to the United States but would
have had grave repercussions for U.S. soldiers in the field and U.S.
interests around the world," she said.

Their findings should give current Pentagon war planners pause, she said.

Following is the text of Feinstein's March 10 remarks from the
Congressional Record:

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