George Bush Sr. Biography: Cheney Considered Using Nuclear Weapons in Iraq

The Guardian

Julian Borger Diplomatic editor Thursday 5 November 2015 09.29 EST
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Perhaps the most alarming revelation to emerge from the new Bush biography is the elder man’s recollection that while Cheney had been his defence secretary, he had commissioned a study on how many tactical nuclear weapons would be needed to eliminate a division of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard.
Apparently the answer was 17, though a more profound conclusion is that Cheney was a more dangerous figure than anyone knew. It adds weight to reporting by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker that Cheney also contemplated the use of low-yield nuclear bunker-busters against Iran’s underground uranium enrichment facilities. From the book Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush