Hand-held Neutron Bombs: The
inventor says we're helpless against them! Live Real Audio Web Site: The inventor of the neutron bomb, and the so-called
mini-neutron bomb believes the United States is in eminent danger of a
terrorist nuclear attack. When I first interviewed him on my national
radio talk show last April he was given little attention by the press.
Now that top Russian military are confirming Sam Cohen's claims, maybe
now people will listen to what he has to say.
After a 40-year career in nuclear weapons development,
Sam Cohen is now retired. During World War II he was assigned to the
Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. After the war Cohen went to work for
the Rand Corporation as a nuclear weapons analyst. In 1958 he
developed the technical and military concept of the neutron bomb. He
has continued to serve as a consultant to the Los Alamos and
Livermore, the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of
Defense.
Cohen had long been an advocate of discriminate use of
mini-nuke battlefield weapons. He proposed their use time and time
again, but politicians refused to back his suggestions.
Cohen to this day makes a strong argument for rapid
victory in Korea and Vietnam through the use of grapefruit sized neutron bombs. "If we had a sizable stockpile of discriminate mini-nukes,
the war would have ended very quickly in our favor," Cohen says of
the controversial military conflicts. His proposal to the Johnson
administration was turned down very firmly.
When the U.S. began preparations for the Persian Gulf
War, Cohen presented his proposal again. This time it was the Bush
administration that turned a deaf ear. Cohen even published an article
about his proposal for use of mini-nukes in the Los Angeles Times. "It
was clear to me that we should stop the massive buildup of
conventional weapons and instead use mini-nukes," explained Cohen.
He claims his article won the support of a handful of
congressmen who spoke in support of his proposal. However, the Bush
administration strengthened itAEs determination to accomplish the task
with conventional weapons alone.
"Nuclear weapons, no matter how low-yield and
discriminate they may be, have been politically ruled out for use on
the battlefield. Better that we might suffer hundreds of thousands of
casualties in a conventional war, and maybe even fail in our
objectives, than to use mini-nukes to win in short order. This may be
politically correct, but morally something seems to be sadly lacking,"
Cohen concluded.
He pointed out that Congress passed legislation during
the Bush administration, with continued endorsement by the Clinton
administration, that forbids the testing, development, or stockpiling
of mini-nukes. He also insists that Congress and the President are
well aware that other countries as well as anti-American terrorists
have an ample supply.
Cohen says he has numerous contacts in the intelligence
community who are as concerned as he is. He claims they have confirmed
to him that the spread of nuclear capabilities in potential enemy
areas of the world is growing rapidly. His greatest concern is a new
class of very small, very
cheap, extremely effective warheads, based solely on nuclear fusion
(thereby circumventing the monitoring terms of the Nuclear
Non-proliferation Treaty). These weapons are in effect mini-neutron
bombs whose use would render our high-tech conventional forces
useless.
"These warheads were developed during the Soviet era but
work has continued under the Russian regime. There is an abundance of
evidence that the underlying technology and ingredients for these
devices have been smuggled out of Russia and sold to a number of
nations, including terrorist ones," claims Cohen, who is upset that
the U.S. is ignoring this intelligence data. Over 100 missing
mini-nukes were recently
reported on 60-minutes, and Cohen claims this has happened with the
complicity of the Russian government, including Boris Yeltsin, and the
assistance of the Russian mafia.
A terrorist could easily hand carry one of these
mini-nukes in a suit case or even a paper bag. According to Cohen, it
could be placed in the park across the street from the White House, or
other strategic target, and detonated by timer or remote control. This
type of neutron bomb would destroy every living thing for a radius of
500 yards, yet physical objects and buildings would be undisturbed.
Nuclear radiation would also
be quickly rendered harmless.
Because there is no mushroom cloud, or even an
explosion, Cohen claims testing of such weapons cannot be detected in
other countries. "So in effect we have legally denied ourselves the
ability to develop and stockpile these weapons while giving an open
hunting license to the rest of the world to acquire them if they so
wish, with little if any fear that they will be discovered, even for
countries that are party to the
non-proliferation and test ban tactics," said an obviously worried
Cohen.
Have we then deliberately given our enemies and
potential enemies the capability to defeat our conventional ground
forces? Have we enabled terrorists and anti-American radicals the
ideal weapon to bring us to our knees? Cohen says very emphatically,
"yes!"
Cohen warns that the age of nuclear weapons has not come
to an end. Despite our arms control efforts, he believes mini-nuke
battlefield weapons already exist and will continue to proliferate
around the world. Cohen is warning that unless the U.S. takes
immediate action, the next major conflict will be decided by the army
that is first to use a mini-nuke on the battlefield. He also warns
that evidence is very strong that such weapons are already in the
hands of terrorists who are plotting an attack in a major U.S. city or
cities.
Written and published by David M. Bresnahan
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