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But it is also an alarming tale because tactical nuclear weapons planning got underway absent advance knowledge of - let alone authorization from - the commander-in-chief. Johnson halted the deployment of these weapons at a moment in Vietnam when he would have faced considerable pressure from his theater commanders to use them.

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The most recently declassified documents, however, convey just how far this planning had advanced at Pacific Command before press disclosures in Washington brought the full scope and scale of Fracture Jaw to the attention of a furious president and a beleaguered White House. By the mid-2000s, Nina Tannenwald and documents declassified by the State Department had already revealed that Johnson shut down the militaryвЂ™s 1968 contingency planning for the employment of tactical nuclear weapons in the Vietnam war. The story these documents tell is not altogether new. How close did the United States actually get to deploying nuclear weapons in Vietnam in 1968? Who initiated this plan, codenamed вЂњFracture Jaw,вЂќ and when did the president become aware of it? What can todayвЂ™s leaders learn from this incident, and what implications does this episode have for command and control of nuclear weapons during wartime and the so-called вЂњnuclear tabooвЂќ that purportedly dissuades their use?Дrawing on declassified вЂњeyes onlyвЂќ materials housed at the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, I seek to situate the revelations in BeschlossвЂ™ book in the broader historical context to provide a more detailed account of the militaryвЂ™s planning for Fracture Jaw and just how far Pentagon and White House officials allowed these preparations to progress without the presidentвЂ™s full knowledge. The publication of Michael BeschlossвЂ™ new book, Presidents of War, shined light on declassified documents describing the efforts that President Lyndon JohnsonвЂ™s senior military officers undertook without presidential authorization in early 1968 to prepare for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam. In an eerie twist on life imitating art, recent news coverage suggests just such a reality could have come to pass. I am reminded of how the Japanese were reported to have viewed the atomic bomb, after Hiroshima.вЂќ Manhattan recalls, вЂњtheir terror of me balanced by an almost religious awe. вЂњOften they surrender to me personally,вЂќ Dr.

ManhattanвЂ™s destructive powers on the battlefield, North Vietnamese soldiers laid down their arms in defeat. Manhattan, a one-time nuclear physicist transformed into a supernatural being by a radiation experiment gone awry.

In their critically acclaimed comic book series, Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons render an alternate, dystopian 1985 America in which the United States won the Vietnam War after obliterating North Vietnamese forces through the deployment of Dr.