US: Pentagon Rejects Claims Of 1991 Nuclear Explosion In Iraq

Iraq War -- Highway Of Death (1991)

From AKI-Adnkronos:

Washington, 10 Oct. (AKI) - The US Department of Defense has rejected controversial claims that the American military dropped a five-kilotonne nuclear bomb in southern Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1991.

Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder, a media spokesman for the department, told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the US used "only conventional weapons" during the Gulf War.

Ryder was responding to claims made by a US veteran, and aired on Italian television, that a small five-kilotonne nuclear bomb was dropped in a deserted area outside the southern city of Basra, on the border of Iran.

"The US maintains a number of munitions that have an explosive capability of 5000 pounds (2300 kilogrammes) and larger," Ryder told AKI in a written statement.

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