U.S. PAPERS TELL OF '53 POLICY TO USE A-BOMB IN KOREA

[TomSea]

Archives | 1984
U.S. PAPERS TELL OF '53 POLICY TO USE A-BOMB IN KOREA
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

Documents released today give details on a decision by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Administration in 1953 to use atomic bombs in North Korea and Communist China, if necessary, to end the Korean War.

Once the armistice was achieved, on July 27, 1953, the Eisenhower Administration continued to define plans to use nuclear weapons if the Communists renewed the war, which the North Koreans started in 1950.

President Eisenhower took office in January 1953 after talks for a cease-fire had dragged on for two years and the war had settled into a standoff, with casualties being incurred but with no change in the front line, which today still separates North and South Korea.

- More at NY Times

[Fishrrman]

In hindsight, perhaps that would have produced a better outcome then we had to put up with for the last 65 years...  even for the North Korean people...

[MajorClay]

Should have been done in retaliation for the USS Pueblo.

[truth_seeker]

I Like Ike