Spikes placed on the coast of Taiwan's Kinmen islands - located just 3.2 kms (two miles) from mainland China - to help prevent a military invasion. © Sam Yeh
AFP: In 1958 US considered nuclear strike on China over Taiwan: documents
US military planners pushed for nuclear strikes on
US planners also assumed that the Soviet Union would aid China and retaliate with nuclear weapons -- a price they deemed worth paying to protect Taiwan, according to the document, first reported by the New York Times.
Former military analyst Ellsberg posted online the classified portion of a top-secret document on the crisis that had been only partially declassified in 1975. Ellsberg, now 90, is famous for his 1971 leak to US media of a top-secret Pentagon study on the Vietnam war known as the Pentagon Papers.
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WNU Editor: It was a very different time then.
