Wired predicts use of Nukes

[citizenq at hushmail.com]

You're like so duh.
This is confirmation, corroboration?

Rumsfeld naturally neither confirms nor denies what USG will opr will not do in the future but responds using standard operating procedure for a stupid question like that.

1) "Why, yes we have seriously considered tactical nuclear weapons" = worldwide political shitstorm.  

2) "No we have ruled out tactical nuclear weapons" = tallybinladen relaxation pill.

Big Smart Wired Writer of course jumps to the typically Wired Balanced Journalism conclusion that this perfectly reasonably evasiveness probably means the B61-11.

Go back to preschool, or playing Nintendo or whatever you kids do.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,47319,00.html

>From: cpaul <inc at fastmedia.net>
>To: cypherpunks at lne.com
>X-Orig-To: cypherpunks at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
>Subject: bush wheels out the nukes
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:33:22 +1000
>Subject: B61-11
>
>THE US 'ANNOUNCED' THEIR INTENTION TO USE B61-11 BUNKER BUSTERS ON LAST
>NIGHT'S NEWS BULLETINS (BUT SOMEHOW FORGOT TO REFER TO THE FACT THAT THEY
>ARE CLASSIFIED AS TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS)
>
>
>2:00 a.m. Oct. 8, 2001 PDT
>Following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon,
>Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was questioned on ABC television's This
>Week program about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in the
>expected conflicts to come. 
>
>In practiced Pentagonese, Rumsfeld deftly avoided answering the question
>of whether the use of tactical nuclear weapons could be ruled out. 
>
>Though large "theater" thermonuclear devices -- doomsday bombs -- don't
>fit the Bush administration's war on terrorism, smaller tactical nukes do
>not seem out of the question in the current mindset of the Defense
>Department. 
>
>The most likely candidate is a tactical micro-nuke called the B61-11, an
>earth-penetrating nuclear device known as the "bunker buster." 
>
>The B61-11 was designed to destroy underground military facilities such as
>command bunkers, ballistic missile silos and facilities for producing and
>storing weapons.