In the middle of the Vietnam War, the US was considering using atomic bombs in order to end the frustration with being unable to control and overcome the Communist forces. But in 1966, a group of Pentagon’s experts wrote a study that analysed the potential use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Its conclusion was unanimously that using atomic weapons in the Vietnam War would be a disaster. The study was developed by senior officials in the US Defense Department, as well as academia which consulted to the US military. The study was written by Robert Gomer, a chemistry professor, Steven Weinberg, a quantum physicist, Courtenay Wright, a particle physicist Courtenay Wright and Freeman Dyson, a mathematician. Some within the military had surmised that atomic bombs could close off strategic access points for the North Vietnamese forces such as the Mu Gia pass which was situated in a very mountainous region. It was because of this kind of thinking that the professors decided to conduct a study into the impact and effects of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Even before starting the project all four professors knew that using nuclear weapons in Vietnam would make an already violent war worse. However they also knew that they had to be taken seriously by the US military and could not just review the ethics and morals of atomic weapons. They decided to focus solely on the military and political effects so that the study would be as influential as possible within military circles. The
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