New Delhi, May 15 -- Former CIA Analyst, Larry Johnson, said on Friday that US President Donald Trump asked US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, if they could use the nuclear weapons, but the latter denied.

Johnson, while speaking to ANI on the Iran war, said that Trump was mulling nuclear action.

"There have been denials. So, well, the issue. I was reporting what my source had said. And then when I did further checking, it wasn't so much a battle over the codes because the reality is the president holds the codes. Trump was seriously entertaining and asking about the use of a nuclear weapon. And General Caine, to his credit, said, absolutely not. Very firm. So there was the issue of nuclear use discussed," he said.

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