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...Afghanistan, the jittery post-Brezhnev leadership in Moscow sends ten Warsaw Pact tank divisions rumbling across the border into West Germany. Pushing back the outnumbered NATO forces, the invaders head for the French border. As the attacking army crosses the Rhine, the French President orders the use of tactical neutron bombs to protect his country's "territorial independence." In response, a Soviet-made SS-20 missile, armed with three nuclear warheads, rises from its silo in Poland and speeds toward Paris...
Most military experts expect that France will proceed with production of the neutron bomb, if only because a long delay might appear as backing down under Soviet disapproval. For once, if he proceeds, Giscard will have the backing of both his West German and U.S. allies. Pentagon sources feel that, if Western Europeans accept a French decision to make a neutron warhead, allied governments might be more willing eventually to accept the U.S. equivalent on their soil...
President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced last month that France had tested its own Enhanced Radiation Weapon (ERW), commonly known as the neutron bomb. Military experts point out that the neutron bomb is not a bomb at all, since it is not designed to be dropped from a plane. It is actually a "clean" nuclear warhead, small enough to fit onto a missile or even into a 155-mm howitzer. A modified hydrogen bomb, the ERW produces minimal heat and blast and virtually no residual radiation and fallout (see chart...
...been the object of controversy since the announcement in 1977 that President Carter was considering its deployment in Western Europe. He later announced that the U.S. would temporarily shelve production of the neutron bomb in hopes of gaining fresh Soviet concessions in the SALT II negotiations. Meanwhile, a highly emotional debate arose on the "morality" of a weapon that is designed to destroy people but not property...
...recall, resigned as Secretary of State--is being held hostage in Iran. In South Korea, they've locked up all the students for being students. At the Pentagon, a broken 46-cent circuit almost started World War III. And in France, they've built their very own neutron bomb...