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Is Bush Practicing the Madman Theory?

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Bush isn't the first president to assert that, regarding a nuclear strike, "All options are on the table." The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists narrates how Richard Nixon not only saber-rattled with nuke-laden B-52s, but tried to convince the Soviets that (as Americans already knew) he was mentally unstable.

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