tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653862464034362503.post6757153122308874338..comments2024-02-23T15:39:29.095+07:00Comments on Truth2Power Media: A Lost Chance for Peace in VietnamAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14738422771541186285noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653862464034362503.post-21309641201959492142017-06-18T07:35:02.530+07:002017-06-18T07:35:02.530+07:00Nixon Proposed Using A-Bomb In Vietnam War
By THE...Nixon Proposed Using A-Bomb In Vietnam War<br /><br />By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCH 1, 2002<br /><br /><br />A few weeks before ordering an escalation of the Vietnam War, President Nixon matter-of-factly raised the idea of using a nuclear bomb. His national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, quickly dissuaded him.<br /><br />Mr. Nixon's abrupt suggestion, buried in 500 hours of tapes released today at the National Archives, came after Mr. Kissinger had presented a variety of options for stepping up the war effort, among them attacking power plants and docks, in an April 25, 1972, conversation in the Executive Office Building in Washington.<br /><br />''I'd rather use the nuclear bomb,'' Mr. Nixon responded.<br /><br />''That, I think, would just be too much,'' Mr. Kissinger replied.<br /><br />''The nuclear bomb. Does that bother you?'' Mr. Nixon asked. ''I just want you to think big.''<br /><br />The following month, Mr. Nixon ordered the biggest escalation of the war since 1968.<br /><br />-------------------<br />Had President Nixon had his wish fulfilled, we probably wouldn't have Drgunzet to entertain us nowadays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com