Nukes

Sir Edward Gray, the British foreign secretary, said in 1914: ''The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetimes.'' The Big War (1914-1945) had started.

These days I am reading in Reuters (September 10):
"The U.S. Defense Department has written a draft revision of its nuclear operations doctrine ["Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations"] that outlines the use of nuclear weapons to pre-empt an enemy's attack with weapons of mass destruction..."
Nukes could be used under various circumstances: "in the face of an enemy's imminent biological weapons attack..."; "on enemy installations containing weapons of mass destruction..."; "to counter potentially overwhelming conventional forces, for rapid and favorable war termination on U.S. terms" to demonstrate U.S. intent and capability to use nuclear weapons to deter enemy use of weapons of mass destruction" ...

Is the Bush Administration selling the Big War of the 21'st century? They are talking about Nuclear Bombing!
Are the lamps going out over America (and the rest of the world)?