From our friends at: BBC News
The Bush administration has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to prepare contingency plans for attacking seven countries with nuclear weapons.Quoting a secret Pentagon report, the Los Angeles Times newspaper names China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria as potential targets.
The Pentagon has declined to comment on the report which analysts have described as “dynamite”.
According to the paper, the report lists three situations in which the weapons could be used.
These include “retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons” and “against targets able to withstand non-nuclear attack”.
The third category - “in the event of surprising military developments” - is described by the BBC’s Washington correspondent, Paul Reynolds, as a “catch-all” clause.
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