US considered nuking Afghanistan after 9/11: report

[Side-Winder]

The George W Bush-led US government considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, according to a report published by a leading German news magazine.

An aide to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder told Der Spiegelin an interview that nuclear option was one of the possibilities examined by the US administration of former US president George W Bush and then-vice president Dick Cheney.

“They had really played through all possibilities,” Michael Steiner, Schroder’s political adviser, was quoted as saying in the report.

Read: Wars in Pakistan, Afghanistan killed 150,000 since 9/11: Study

The German official stated that Schroder had feared that the US would overreact to 9/11 attacks by al Qaeda that killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.

Steiner is a senior German diplomat who has been serving the German ambassador to India since March 2012.

This article originally appeared on Press TV.

US considered nuking Afghanistan after 9/11: report - The Express Tribune

 

[syedali73]

But sanity prevailed. Besides, nuking Afghanistan would have yielded nothing, for nukes are good at terrorizing countries that have something to loose unlike Afghanistan that had nothing to loose anyway.

 

[OTTOMAN]

I'm sure the sanity prevailed after looking at Pakistan and lack of evidence to prove the attack comprehensively on Afghans..

 

[Menace2Society]

Is a nuke with localized fallout possible?

 

[In arduis fidelis]

Would have saved the world trillions in lives and property though.

 

[Menace2Society]

Would have saved the world trillions in lives and property though.

TTP would never have existed. Afghanistan would have been truly conquered and perhaps a Japan like new dawn for peace and prosperity.

 

[Abdullah S.]

US could have dropped 10 nukes on Afghanistan and the result would have been the same as today, with the exception that US puppets wouldn't have been able to occupy & rule Kabul and other major cities .

 

[In arduis fidelis]

US could have dropped 10 nukes on Afghanistan and the result would have been the same as today, with the exception that US puppets wouldn't have been able to occupy & rule Kabul and other major cities .

Casualty figures tend to tell a different story.
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
These are just 2 now consider 10.

 

[C130]

I'm sure this meant nuking mountains these rats dwell around. not nuking entire cities

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The George W Bush-led US government considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, according to a report published by a leading German news magazine.

An aide to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder told Der Spiegelin an interview that nuclear option was one of the possibilities examined by the US administration of former US president George W Bush and then-vice president Dick Cheney.

“They had really played through all possibilities,” Michael Steiner, Schroder’s political adviser, was quoted as saying in the report.

11. September: Bush-Regierung dachte an Atomschlag - SPIEGEL ONLINE

 

[In arduis fidelis]

I'm sure this meant nuking mountains these rats dwell around. not nuking entire cities

Oh really? why not it would have rid this world of alot of pest.

 

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Would have saved the world trillions in lives and property though.

We would have faced the side-affects mentally and physically of nuclear attack at our immediate neighbor!

 

[In arduis fidelis]

We would have faced the side-affects mentally and physically of nuclear attack at our immediate neighbor!

If any of them were left after the attack.

 

[Abdullah S.]

Casualty figures tend to tell a different story.
These are just 2 now consider 10.

Man you're putting yield of 1200 kilotons for a single strike.
Current operational US ICBMs like Minuteman III can carry a maximum of 300 kilotons. 99 thousand would have died in Kabul from a 300 kt weapon. 5 similar nukes on other cities with much smaller populations would have killed lesser people than in Kabul. As it is, at least close to 500,000 people have already died from US invasion.

 

[In arduis fidelis]

Man you're putting yield of 1200 kilotons for a single strike.
Current operational US ICBMs like Minuteman III can carry a maximum of 300 kilotons. 99 thousand would have died in Kabul from a 300 kt weapon. 5 similar nukes on other cities with much smaller populations would have killed lesser people than in Kabul. As it is, at least close to 500,000 people have already died from US invasion.

Warhead exist in US current arsenal.
Nevertheless around 1,000,000 causalities on a single day not to count the fallout effect can bring any country to it's knees.