RE: Does the prospect of nuclear disaster still frighten anyone these days?
March 22, 2015 at 5:01 am
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2015 at 5:15 am by abaris.)
(March 22, 2015 at 12:04 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Admiral Lockwood should have been prosecuted for doing the same thing in the Pacific that Dönitz did in the Atlantic, executing unrestricted submarine warfare.
They dropped the charges on that one, since with Otto Kranzbühler Dönitz had a lawyer, who really knew his job and the anglosaxon system of case law, precedence and cross examination. He wrote to Chester Nimitz and got his client off.
Quote:Dönitz produced an affidavit from Admiral Chester Nimitz who testified that the United States had used unrestricted warfare as a tactic in the Pacific and that American submarines did not rescue survivors in situations where their own safety was in question. In view of all the facts proved and in particular of an order of the British Admiralty announced on the 8th May, 1940, according to which all vessels should be sunk at sight in the Skagerrak, and the answers to interrogatories by Admiral Nimitz stating that unrestricted submarine warfare was carried on in the Pacific Ocean by the United States from the first day that nation entered the war, the sentence of Doenitz was not assessed on the ground of his breaches of the international law of submarine warfare.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/w...oenitz.htm
Btw, to move this back to nuclear disaster. Does anyone remember the hype surrounding the neutron bomb around 1981? It was one of the first military brainfarts of the Reagan years and kill people but leave the infrastructure intact for future use. Donovan even wrote a song about it back then and being 18 and pretty peace moved, we used to sing it around our campfires.