This is news?

Apparently it just got released that the U.S. government "considered" using radioactivity (the alpha particles, not the explosions) as a weapon.

Well, duh.

We dropped two atomic BOMBs.

Heinlein had suggested this back in... what? 1939? 1940?

Not a new concept.

The U.S. was considering new methods of assassination in the dawning years of the Cold War?

Not a new concept.

I suppose it might be news that the government opened its books on the issue for the first time. But it would be the admission that was news, not the fact. Sort of like if Israel officially confirmed that it has nuclear weapons.