On 27 February 1991 American Army dropped a Nuclear Bomb in South Iraq.
A five-kilotonne nuclear device was exploded by U.S. troops in Basra.
Pentagon has tried to deny the incident.
However, U.S. Military personnel have come forwards to reveal that they had used nuclear wepaons. It is now claimed by American soldiers that U.S. Army had indeed used a nuclear bomb during the first Gulf War.
One former U.S. soldier and military expert at Fort Drum confirmed that nuclear bomb was used in Iraq.
The Mechanical Engineer Jim Brown of US Army's 10th Mountain revealed that U.S. Military did drop an Atomic bomb in southern Iraq. He said that the nuclear blast resulted in small earth quake of 4.2 scale.
The claim was independently confirmed by Britain's International Seismological Center. The centre said the quake occured at exactly 1:39pm 27.02.1991.
The nuclear blast was also registered by similar monitoring centres in Canada, Sweden and Norway.
Iran also says it had recorded the quake resulting from the nuclear explosion in Iraq.
On Friday 24 October 2008, Iran's former President Ali Rafsanjani claimed a U.S. nuclear attack in Basra.
Mr Rafsanjani, now in the Assembly of Experts, said the Pentagon had suppressed the truth by banning anyone from investigating the explosion in Basra. He said reports of nuclear blast were censored in the media.
Gulf War ended the day after the explosion of the nuclear device.
Washington has classified the documents of the 1991 incident.
Japan has already suffered from nuclear weapons. United States had dropped two Atom Bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Iraqi doctors say as in case of Japan, nuclear blast in Basra also resulted in dramatic increase in number of cancers in the area.
APN - 10/25/2008
