Oder Aderet reports at Haaretz that the United States considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attack according to Michael Steiner, who served as a political advisor to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, as reported in Der Spiegel. "The papers were written," Steiner said when asked whether the U.S. had considered using nuclear weapons in response to the attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden, in which almost 3,000 people were killed. "They had really played through all possibilities." Steiner added that Schröder feared that the US, which was in a state of shock following the attacks, would overreact. "After Sept. 11, the entire administration positively dug in. We no longer had access to Rice, much less to the president. It wasn't just our experience, but also that of the French and British as well. Of course that made us enormously worried."
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:55AM
Were many buildings burned down using jet fuel during WW2?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zugedneb on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:09AM
jet fuel burned up in the explosion.
it does not hang around and burn for 5-6 hours.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:13AM
Tell us how you did it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:11AM
jet fuel can't melt steel beams maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zugedneb on Tuesday September 01 2015, @03:19PM
Generally for something burning in air to give of max energy, there has to be an abundance of O2.
In those circumstances, I can not see how there was abundance of O2.
Many think, jet fuel behaves like the flame coming out of jets, but there is compressed and enormous amounts of fucking air in jet engine.
Crevice and shaft in wall NOT same as jet engine.
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