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 Monday March 11, 2002 04:41 by e rocket
 Saturday March 9 5:23 AM ET U.S. Military Told to Prepare Nuclear Weapons: LA Times WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Citing a classified Pentagon report, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday that The Bush administration has told the Defense Department to prepare, on a contingency basis, plans to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries. The military was also directed to build smaller nuclear weapons for use in certain battlefield situations, the newspaper reported. The countries named in the secret report -- provided to Congress on Jan. 8 -- were China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria, the Times reported. The three contingencies listed for possible use of the weapons were ``against targets able to withstand nonnuclear attack; in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons; or ``in the event of surprising military developments,'' according to the newspaper. ``The report says the Pentagon should be prepared to
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