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Article: Nixon wanted to drop nuclear bomb on Vietnam
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2002
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TAPE RECORDINGS of conversations between Richard Nixon, the
disgraced former United States president, and some of his top
advisers during the first six months of 1972 have revealed him
excoriating Jews and liberals and musing about dropping a nuclear
bomb on North Vietnam.
In one segment of about 500 hours of discussions released by the
National Archives, Nixon is heard discussing an extension of bombing
raids over North Vietnam with Henry Kissinger, the national security
adviser. Then, rather abruptly, he says: "I'd rather use the nuclear
bomb." Whether Nixon was serious or trying to provoke Mr Kissinger is
not clear. In his baritone voice, his adviser replies: "That, I
think, would just ...