Let us now peddle just-so stories, Eric. I've heard some, too: for example, that the US wanted to drop nukes on Egypt during the Six-Day when it thought the Liberty was sunk by the Egyptians and drew back in the last moment because Israel admitted to having done it "by mistake." I cannot provide evidence for this, any more than you can for yours. However, we do know that the US is the only country ever to have actually used nuclear weapons, and we also know that it is the only country that recently admitted that it is contemplating using them. See: http://feinstein.senate.gov/03Speeches/cdi10.htm http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2002/03/14_deen_new-us-posture.htm Well, there is the qualified exception of the UK, which said that it "does not exclude the possibility." O.K. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html