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After years of official denials, a 2003 planning document issued by the U.S. military’s nuclear-weapons command, reveals the U.S. ordered preparations for nuclear strikes on countries seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
Those countries included Iran, pre-invasion Iraq, Libya and Syria. The report was designed to shift the U.S. policy on nuclear missiles off of Cold War enemies such as Russia, and China, and onto middle eastern countries who were aspiring to get Nuclear weapons programs of their own.
The website Global Security.org has a copy of the document, known as the Nuclear Posture Review. This document, and subsequent "guidance documents" laid out that (for the first time in U.S. nuclear history) plans for nuclear attack on regional targets around the world were included in the basic nuclear war planning document.
All of these documents date back to 2003, and since there have been rumblings of said documents since that time, it isn’t clear whether the plan has been updated or changed.
What is clear, is that the latest saber rattling about stopping Iran with bombers, is nothing compared to what the DOD wanted to do originally, and may still be planning to do.