1Fox News’Wendell Goler and The Associated Press,“U.S.Prepared to Use Nukes,White House Says",http:∥www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72706,00.html
2“Prevent Our Enemies from Threatening Us,Our Allies,and Our Friend with Weapons of Mass Destruction",Part V,The National Security Strategy of the United States of America,http:∥www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html
3“National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction”,http:∥www.whitehouse,gov/news/releases/2002/12/WMD Strategy.pdf
4Mike Allen and-Barton Gellman,“Preemptive Strikes Part of Strategy,Officials say‘All Options’Open for Countering Unconventional Arms",The Washington Post,December 11,2002,A26,Col.3.
5Ibid.
6Mike Allen and Barton Gellman,“Preemptive Strikes Part of Strategy,Officials Say‘All Options’Open for Countering Unconventional Arms”,The Washington Post,Dec.11,2002.