Word: khesanh
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...light of these new doubts, the impending showdown at Khesanh raises the disturbing spectre of nuclear warfare. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee early this month. General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated the problem bluntly. If faced with a choice between losing Khesanh and using nuclear weapons, Wheeler reportedly said, the Pentagon would recommend "bringing in the nukes...
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...