A German diplomat claimed that US was considering to launch a Nuclear strike against Afghanistan after terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
A senior German diplomat Michael Steiner told Spiegel magazine that the nuclear option was under consideration.
He is the current German ambassador to India, served as foreign and security policy aide to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder at the time of the 9/11 attacks.
There was a concern in Berlin that the Americans were so shocked by the attacks, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives, that they would overreact, Steiner told the magazine.
The 9/11 attacks were a turning point for the post-Cold War world, sending the United States on a global war against Islamic terrorism.
The invasion of Afghanistan and the ousting of the Taliban from power was the most direct consequence of the attack.
It was globally welcomed as a just move, unlike Washington’s later war with Iraq, in which several European allies of the US, including Germany, refused to take part.
