<p>In a bizzare suggestion to crack down on terrorism, a former British Labour defence minister has suggested to drop a neutron bomb on the Pak-Afghan border for creating an impassable barrier between the two countries.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Speaking in the House of Lords, John Gilbert said Britain could use the radiation warheads "to create cordons sanitaire along various borders where people are causing trouble".<br /><br />"Your Lordships may say that this is impractical, but nobody lives up in the mountains on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan except for a few goats and a handful of people herding them," he said last week.<br /><br />"If you told them that some ERRB (Enhanced Radiation Reduced Blast) warheads were going to be dropped there and that it would be a very unpleasant place to go, they would not go there.<br /><br />"You would greatly reduce your problem of protecting those borders from infiltration from one side or another.<br /><br />"These things are not talked about, but they should be, because there are great possibilities for deterrence in using the weapons that we already have in that respect."<br /><br />Neutron bombs are a type of thermonuclear weapon designed to kill people while leaving physical structures such as buildings in tact.<br /><br />Responding for the government Jim Wallace said the coalition did not share the "rumbustious views" of Gilbert.<br /><br />Gilbert, who served Tony Blair in the late 1990s as a defence minister and was a member Intelligence and Security Committee while he was an MP, said he did not favour a nuclear-free world.<br /><br />"I am absolutely delighted that nuclear weapons were invented when they were and I am delighted that, with our help, it was the Americans who invented them," he explained.<br />"If we think of a world in which they had not been invented, it is very easy indeed to see world war three starting on many occasions after 1945."</p>
<p>In a bizzare suggestion to crack down on terrorism, a former British Labour defence minister has suggested to drop a neutron bomb on the Pak-Afghan border for creating an impassable barrier between the two countries.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Speaking in the House of Lords, John Gilbert said Britain could use the radiation warheads "to create cordons sanitaire along various borders where people are causing trouble".<br /><br />"Your Lordships may say that this is impractical, but nobody lives up in the mountains on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan except for a few goats and a handful of people herding them," he said last week.<br /><br />"If you told them that some ERRB (Enhanced Radiation Reduced Blast) warheads were going to be dropped there and that it would be a very unpleasant place to go, they would not go there.<br /><br />"You would greatly reduce your problem of protecting those borders from infiltration from one side or another.<br /><br />"These things are not talked about, but they should be, because there are great possibilities for deterrence in using the weapons that we already have in that respect."<br /><br />Neutron bombs are a type of thermonuclear weapon designed to kill people while leaving physical structures such as buildings in tact.<br /><br />Responding for the government Jim Wallace said the coalition did not share the "rumbustious views" of Gilbert.<br /><br />Gilbert, who served Tony Blair in the late 1990s as a defence minister and was a member Intelligence and Security Committee while he was an MP, said he did not favour a nuclear-free world.<br /><br />"I am absolutely delighted that nuclear weapons were invented when they were and I am delighted that, with our help, it was the Americans who invented them," he explained.<br />"If we think of a world in which they had not been invented, it is very easy indeed to see world war three starting on many occasions after 1945."</p>