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Over the course of the Vietnam war, and as the war dragged on and grew ever bloodier, costlier, and protested by the American public at large, the issue of using "tactical" nuclear weapons in the Vietnam war came up time and again within various administrations. However, most Presidents turned this down because of the "nuclear taboo". But, President Nixon did consider using nuclear weapons in order to scare the Vietnamese into negations and bend the North to the will of the United States. However, this too never came to fruition
I therefore ask, what would have been the effect of using nuclear weapons in Vietnam under Nixon, in every way from the effect on the North Vietnamese/Vietcong and the war, to the opinion (or fallout) with the America public to international views of that choice and so forth?