Discussing a secret Pentagon report, The New York Times stated that “the possible use of nuclear arms to destroy enemy stocks of biological weapons, chemical arms and other arms of mass destruction ” may have become part of the American nuclear policy.
يضاف الى ذلك ان تطوير اسلحة اخرى للدمار الشامل زاد من احتمال استخدام القنابل النووية .‏