President Eisenhower upholds use of atomic weapons

In March 1955 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told reporters “… in the event of [a] general war in the Far East, we would probably make use of some tactical small atomic weapons.”

When asked to comment the following day at a press conference, President Dwight D. Eisenhower upheld the use of battlefield nuclear weapons.

Source: Politico

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