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Letter: Letter

Published 7 July 2001

From Sue Rabbitt Roff, Dundee University Medical School

Whether Operation Blowdown involved an actual or simulated nuclear
detonation, it was obviously part of the development of a tactical nuclear
weapon for potential use in the tropical rainforests of Vietnam—had
General Lucius Clay had his way and been permitted to “bomb the Vietcong back to
the Stone Age”.

Issue no. 2298 published 7 July 2001

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