European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of option by the by Bernard Well flub new York times to its the Neutron bomb is a especially ugly weapon that must have been developed by a mad gnome Al the Pentagon or by it3 in the realm of the said who led the losing Light in the Senate to bar funds Lor the it raises the great est probability and potential of introducing nuclear weaponry into conventional what these artillery and Short Range Lance missile warheads arc designed for la deployment on a Battlefield against an attacking their function la to kill the soldiers a byproduct is that they would probably die slowly and painfully without destroying buildings or other inanimate its said to its the so called enhanced radiation warhead is merely a precise and sophisticated weapon that serves to buoy what they consider the sagging lenses of the North Atlantic treaty in almost All the is member countries have said they would like the because its lethal radiation la Friendly troops could move within in Stead of within into a stricken in West where it is most Likely to be the Neutron bomb has ignited a major political controversy in a crucial is whether the deploy men of a tactical nuclear weapon such the Neutron bomb serves to deter accelerate toe prospects of a and beyond that butt there is a Central due Unai can a limited nuclear War in fact take or would the use of one Tacti Cal nuclear weapon trigger a Luu scale nuclear Holo supporters of the weapon say that a soviet attack on for is deterred by the threat of weapons such As the Neutron that could be fired by Allied troops without destroying what nato seeks to the restrict blast and fire damage to a Small a radius of 200 la 300 and so Are thought to be More effective than the tactical nuclear weapons now in place in and especially effective against what is thought to be one of the More potent soviet threats an assault of tanks moving across Europe with no these by and adhere to the concept of a limited nuclear the concept that the firing of a precise tactical nuclear weapon will not necessarily Lead to a nuclear but beyond they claim that the Neutron because of its accuracy and lower actually deters soviet As Sam a Youthful and articulate Georgia Democrat who led the Senate fight in support of the told the chamber those who oppose us head apparently believe in self deterrence that we should keep the weapon so destructive we would never use them or if we did use it would Only be under the mod desperate of conditions by deterring ourselves from using tactical nuclear except weapons which would destroy the territory we Are pledged in nato to the advantages which the soviets now maintain in conventional arms Are greatly magnified remind my colleagues that the purpose of deter rence in Europe is to deter soviet not to deter ourselves from responding to that j opponents of the weapon refute this Point Specif they maintain that precisely because the weapon ii so attractive we it invites and make a Small nuclear response that much wore and a Small in Clear Roost of them would Prerau total Star the distinction Between a conventional cod nuclear wan the Pentagon clearly a number of experts in and out of government think the soviet Union they that a limited or even fallout nuclear War is As Richard former director of the russian research Center at Harvard puts it in the july Issue of Coirnne Iaru Maga Zine soviet doctrine emphatically asserts that while an till out nuclear War would indeed prove extremely destructive to both its outcome would not be Mutual suicide the country better prepared for it and in posses Sion of a sin rior strategy could win and emerge a viable As for president he seems ambivalent on the urging development of the Neutron but Indi Cating that its use could Lead to fallout tactical nuclear including Loose for Battle Field have strongly contributed to deterrence of conflict in be we must retain the option they the he May be needed for discreet applications of Force against natos ene and Neutron weapons might be used against their Forward but at the same be called the very use of nuclear weapons a horrifying Prospect that might quickly get out of whatever the presidents final decision about de the larger debate is not Likely to go what seems to have emerged out of the confusion leu no Tartu ton Mito Ion wind n Fott 4 Little of beyond i j and emotive rhetoric surrounding the Neutron i some reports have referred to the Neutron i As a killer a if there were some kind is a lense debate about nuclear War itself the use of nuclear a subject often be riled As Loo Hort Lac of rational discussing the uncertainty and confusions Over r a us a Liberal worked at the Pentagon during the Vietnam served basically the Neutron bomb is not really and it Points up the problems that liberals nay arms the real idea is whether you want to r tactical nuclear weapons or not and once you have t How do you draw the line Between the Neutron i which is supposedly clean and and a bomb t is dirty and not so its All pretty a nuclear physicist who is the father of the Neutron bomb military or More correctly their employer Are the recipients of their effects in the i have been Ordinary human beings who have had the i Fortune to be on the other regarding the r weapons to be used in a possible the Mirr having to do with differences in kill mechanisms t must be assessed in the context of a vastly different 1 great obscenity of War he added most americans feel that the by Nelly would be nuclear if fighting such j would be humanly immoral to an then i the necessary Means to deter us outbreak can construed As a moral it is in this context t the development of any nuclear weapon must be f this includes the Neutron Page 14 the stars and stripes