Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball
[PDF file]: […] railroads’. The authors speculate that a ‘clean’ nuclear weapon might have been ‘an airburst of a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon, so as to minimize fallout effects but kill soldiers, truck drivers, and other logistics personnel in the area through immediate radiation effects.’ (p. 233) Fortunately, Nixon did not initiate a nuclear war, but he […]