The War on Yemen, America’s Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons Against the Middle East

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• The War on Yemen, America’s Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons against the Middle East
  by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, http://www.globalresearch.ca/  
  Unconfirmed reports based on a video release dated May 20, 2015 point to a massive and unprecedented bomb explosion in Yemen. The reports suggest without corroborating evidence that the explosion could have been the result of a nuclear strike, using a tactical nuclear weapon. There is no evidence to that effect.
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  Whatever the nature of this explosion, it constitutes a crime against humanity. While there is no concrete evidence that the US led alliance has used nukes against Yemen, the broader issue of nuclear war against the Middle East is, nonetheless, of utmost relevance.
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  Washington’s nuclear agenda as defined by the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review (2001) consists in developing its tactical nuclear arsenal for use against non-nuclear States. Since 2002, US-NATO tactical nuclear weapons targeting the Middle East are fully deployed.
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  Tactical nuclear weapons or so-called “mini-nukes” are bunker buster bombs equipped with a nuclear warhead. Their explosive capacity (e.g. the B61-11) varies between one third and six times a Hiroshima bomb.

• The image (top) is a B61-11 tactical nuclear bomb, which can be launched either from a B-2 bomber or an F-16. The B61-11 is a bona fide thermonuclear bomb, a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) in the real sense of the word. 
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  Sofar the evidence is scanty. There are no reports on the aftermath of the alleged strike in Yemen which would provide further information. The mainstream media has not covered the issue. The matter requires further investigation in the context of a longstanding US agenda to use nuclear weapons against targets in the Middle East.
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  Nuclear Attacks against countries in the Middle East
  The alleged yet unconfirmed use of mini-nukes against Yemen raises the broader issue of US nuclear doctrine:
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  * Tactical nuclear weapons or mini-nukes are part of the US-NATO arsenal.
  * They were cleared for use in the conventional war theater by the US Senate in 2002.
  * They can be used without the approval of the Commander in Chief;
  * The US military contends that “mini-nukes” are “humanitarian bombs” which minimize “collateral damage”. According to scientific opinion on contract to the Pentagon, they are “harmless to the surrounding civilian population because the explosion is underground”.
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  While the scanty “evidence” of a nuclear attack against Yemen remains unconfirmed, the use of mini-nukes against countries in the Middle East has been on the Pentagon’s drawing board for almost 20 years.  In 1996 under the Clinton administration, the B61-11 tactical nuclear weapon was slated to be used by the US in an attack against Libya.
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