US Considers First Use of Nukes

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At the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) in Omaha and inside planning cells of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, target lists are being scrutinized, options are being pondered and procedures are being tested to give nuclear armaments a role in the new U.S. doctrine of \"preemption.\"

According to multiple sources close to the process, the current planning focuses on two possible roles for nuclear weapons:

attacking Iraqi facilities located so deep underground that they might be impervious to conventional explosives;

thwarting Iraq\'s use of weapons of mass destruction.

Story is at:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0126-01.htm

Also see:

http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/Iraq/012703_shock__awe.htm

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http://www.ccmep.org

richard myers

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