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July 7, 2010

Nixon considered nuclear option against N. Korea

in the news: NPR's All Things Considered with Mike Shuster on July 6, 2010

"The danger of a wide war tends to trump whatever benefit you think might come from punishing your enemy here with a retaliatory strike," Daniel Sneider said in a recent All Things Considered story about evidence showing that President Richard Nixon considered using nuclear force against North Korea in 1969.