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Article: Nixon suggested nuclear bomb use in Vietnam
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- March 1, 2002
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Nixon suggested nuclear bomb use in Vietnam, tapes show
By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press
Friday, March 1, 2002
College Park, Md. -- A few weeks before ordering an escalation of
the Vietnam War, President Nixon matter-of-factly raised the idea of
using a nuclear bomb. The notion was quickly shot down by national
security adviser Henry Kissinger.
Nixon's abrupt suggestion, buried in 500 hours of tapes released
Thursday at the National Archives, came after Kissinger laid out a
variety of options for stepping up the war effort, such as attacking
power plants and docks, in an April 25, 1972, conversation in the
Executive Office Building.
"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb," Nixon responded.
"That, ...