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Wheeler's statement immediately touched off a spate of "inside" reports, purporting to prove that nuclear warfare was imminent at Khesanh. Claiming that nuclear weapons were already being stored in Thailand, a University of California professor said last week that "for the first time since World War II, the United States is planning to use nuclear weapons in combat...
...local man, "a specialist in nuclear research," had been sent to a Marine base "near the demilitarized zone." Time said that a party of nuclear-weapons experts from Columbia had been sent to Vietnam, but added that Dean Rusk denied any connection between this group and nukes at Khesanh...
...despite the anxious flurry, immediate indications are that World War III will not begin at Khesanh. This judgment is based on military, not political, considerations...
...Fierce debates still rage within the Pentagon as to whether the Communists' Big Attack will actually come at Khesanh. The Joint General Staff of the South Vietnamese Army said Monday that it believes the preparations at Khesanh are just decoy measures for a larger offensive in the central highlands...
...There is a growing confidence among the American military that if the attack does come at Khesanh, the 5000 Marines there will be able to hold it off. "The monsoon season's almost over," an American general said, "and the longer they wait the better our chances...