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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."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:31AM
Well, literally *any* peer-reviewed paper's that's ever been written on the subject will clear things up, but you probably don't want to hear that.
It's a unique situation, because no 100+ story modern skyscrapers have been hit by a modern loaded jet before or since. Fortunately for your inquisitive mind, the twin towers' destruction has been studied by mechanical engineers more than any other building collapse, and now we know that it looks like a "controlled demolition" because that's what skyscrapers look like when they're falling down. WW2 Europe is a poor comparison; that was before the jet engine, and those cities, despite the recency, looked more like something from the 19th century (no skyscrapers, mostly brick and wood construction) than the late 20th. It's because of WW2's complete destruction that Europe was able to rebuild and look like modern American cities.
(Score: 2) by nukkel on Tuesday September 01 2015, @06:58PM
> modern american cities
Like Detroit?