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In a 1954 interview described in author Bob Considine’s biography of General Douglas MacArthur (Considine in The Long and Illustrious Career of General Douglas MacArthur, Fawcett Publications, New York City, 1964) the General was describing his plans for winning the Korean War. They included dropping “30–50 tactical atomic bombs” on North Korea’s military and then contaminating the land “…from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea—a belt of radioactive cobalt. It could have been spread from wagons, carts, trucks and planes.
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Karam, P.A. (2021). Introduction. In: Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69162-2_1
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