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Old 23rd February 2008, 22:54
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Re: Cause of the Korean War ?

A good deal of information and links can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_war

The following text was taken from the above mentioned site about the use of nuclear weapons in the conflict:

In October 1951, U.S. forces performed Operation Hudson Harbor intending to establish the capability to use nuclear weapons. Several B-29s conducted individual simulated bomb runs from Okinawa to North Korea, delivering “dummy” nuclear bombs or heavy conventional bombs; the operation was coordinated from Yokota Air Base in Japan. The battle exercise was intended to test “actual functioning of all activities which would be involved in an atomic strike, including weapons assembly and testing, leading, ground control of bomb aiming,” and so on. The results indicated that nuclear bombs would be less effective than anticipated, because “timely identification of large masses of enemy troops was extremely rare.”

-Eric Z
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