A different "Going Nuclear" in Korea...and other places?

OK, while reading through that Korean War history I mentioned in an earlier thread ("The Forgotten War" by Clay Blair), I came across a passage where Blair quotes Courtney Whitney, an aide to General Matthew Ridgeway, describing a possible Ridgeway plan in which North Korea would be bombed to destroy critical infrastructure, Taiwanese troops would land on both coasts of North Korea, and to keep CCF and Soviet forces from crossing the Yalu, "a defensible field of radioactive wastes, the by-product of atomic manufacture" would be used to deny any access across the Yalu.

Would this plan have been practical or possible? What would the Soviet reaction to it be? Did anyone else consider something like this in other places?
 
:confused:Hunh?? I don't understand your response, CalBear. (I've often posted terse replies that no one else got, I think you just did that.)
He was referring to the reinvasion of the North, using Taiwanese troops to invade amphibiously, and spreading nuclear waste on the Yalu River Area. I was simply referring to the nuclear waste angle...
 

MacCaulay

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I didn't think that was a Ridgeway plan. I seem to remember it being from MacArthur's noggin.

Also...it may sound creepy, but I actually just checked out that book from the library not two days ago.
 

Cook

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MacArthur's plan was for the Atomic bombing of fifty sites in Mainland China. This would be using 20 kiloton bombs dropped from B-29 bombers.
Fortunately President Truman had not delegated control of Atomic Weapons to his theatre commanders.

For you to have a timeline with an Atomic Korean war just transfer control of Atomic Armed B-29’s to MacArthur, but the war would definitely not be restricted to the Korean Peninsular.
 
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