Pysicists decry Bush Policy

The profession that brought us the BOMB is now upset that it night be used on Iran.

Seed: A Second (Scientific) Opinion:

"On April 17, 2006, Seymour Hersh reported in The New Yorker that the United States had tabled plans to employ tactical nuclear weapons against Iran to halt their burgeoning nuclear program. A letter had been sent to President Bush that same day, condemning what its authors worried would be a radical departure from the official US nuclear weapons policy of 'only as a last resort.'

The 19 signatories of the document were neither weapons experts nor policy wonks; rather, all were physicists, 'members of the profession that brought nuclear weapons into existence.' These individuals, including six Nobel laureates, were asserting the parental rights to their brainchild as Oppenheimer, Einstein and others had once done after WWII. "