U.S. nuclear threats

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The U.S. is thinking the unthinkable: It is preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons in Iraq: By William Arkin, The Los Angeles Times, [30 January 2003]. The Bush administration has significantly lowered the nuclear threshold to make so-called ’preemptive’ nuclear attacks a possibility. This may also lead to other nations revising their own thresholds, and use nuclear weapons to defeat Hussein has the potential to create a political and global disastor.
Flirting With Disaster: Editorial by Nichgolas D. Kristof (NYT), The New York Times, Friday 14 February 2003. Blindingly irresponsible is the loose talk in the Bush administration about using nuclear weapons in Iraq. By publicly lowering our threshold for using nuclear weapons, we’re sending a dangerous signal to other countries.
UK nuclear evidence a fake: By Ian Traynor, The Guardian (London), Saturday 8 March 2003. British intelligence claims that Saddam Hussein has been trying to import uranium for a nuclear bomb are unfounded and based on deliberately fabricated evidence. British intelligence was either easily hoodwinked or a knowing party to the deceit.
US ready to use nuclear weapons in Iraq: RBC.ru (Russia), 19 March 2003. According to the Los Angeles Times, Pentagon considers deploying nuclear weapons to destroy fortified underground shelters used as Iraqi military bases. The US has been actively developing penetrating low-powered nuclear missiles recently.