In an age of biowarfare, US sees new role for nukes | csmonitor.com

Bush administration mulls resuming nuclear testing and developing tactical warheads to deal with threats like Iraq.

To ensure that enemy facilities or forces are knocked out and cannot be reconstituted, attacks with nuclear weapons may be necessary," the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Va., reported last year.

Several of that report's authors are now officials in the Bush administration, including Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Defense Science Board chairman William Schneider.

New nuclear weapons, coming to you soon from the Republican tax-free think tanks.