One other thought - given that China now has the 3rd largest nuclear force (behind the US and Russia), why in the world would the US ever launch a first-strike campaign against them? Not only would it be suicide since the Chinese have the landbased missles and missle submarines, but it would be global suicide.
Maybe a nuclear winter is the Bush administration's way to combat global warming.
Paranoia indeed.
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