Newspaper- U.S. considered using radiological weapons

Sunday, February 24, 2002

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In planning for the possibility of a Soviet invasion of Saudi Arabia around 1950, the U.S. considered defending Saudi Arabian oil with radiological weapons, according to a recently declassified 1950 CIA memorandum.

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