(U.S. News) - A new Bush administration military strategy contemplates pre-emptive first strikes - and even the remote possibility of using nuclear weapons - against outlaw states such as Iraq. For example, an earth-penetrating nuclear bomb might be used to destroy underground bunkers - often hundreds of feet deep - that may hide chemical and biological weapons labs and are out of reach of modern conventional weapons.
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