“Shocking Revelations: U.S. General Considered Nuclear Strike in Vietnam War – What Changed?”
“Debrief all personnel with access to this planning project that there can be no disclosure of the content of the plan or knowledge that such planning was either underway or suspended,” Johnson said to Gen. Westmoreland in a rather curt memo.
The commander for American operations in the Pacific, Adm. Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., ordered on February 12, 1968 that the operation must not move forward.
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss, author of the forthcoming book Presidents of War, is grateful that Johnson prevented the use of nuclear weapons during the Vietnam War: “We have to thank him for making sure that there was no chance in early 1968 of that tragic conflict going nuclear.”
This information remained unknown to American soldiers at Khe Sanh.
Next, check out this collection of 33 declassified Vietnam War photos that the public was never meant to see. Then, read about how the Vietnam War protests began in the United States.
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