by rain » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:44 am
also via <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/">www.whatreallyhappened.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Experts warn of an accidental atomic war <br>Nuclear missile modified for conventional attack on Iran could set off alarm in Russia<br>Eric Rosenberg, Hearst Newspapers<br><br>Friday, October 6, 2006<br><br>A Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could unwittingly spark an atomic war, two weapons experts warned Thursday. <br><br>Russian military officers might misconstrue a submarine-launched conventional D5 intercontinental ballistic missile and conclude that Russia is under nuclear attack, said Ted Postol, a physicist and professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Pavel Podvig, a physicist and weapons specialist at Stanford. <br><br>"Any launch of a long-range nonnuclear armed sea or land ballistic missile will cause an automated alert of the Russian early warning system," Postol told reporters .....<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/06/MNGF9LJSMM1.DTL">www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar...LJSMM1.DTL</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
