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Originally posted by Noble Wolf:
And the problem is the world's nuclear stokepile does act as a deterrent to those folk who are most likely going to be the next to such weapons in anger.*reference to your other thread regarding terror in Europe* [img]graemlins/fighting.gif[/img]
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What I worry about is this scenario:
Russian's are needing cash, and they have the stockpiles of nukes just 'sitting around'. A bidder comes forward from say.. Iraq or Al-Qaeda and the say "We will give you 20 million in cash for a nuke--a conspiracy happens, and they GET the nuke. Russians find out it's missing WAY to late, and cover up their mistake.
Months or YEARS later, someone travels to a large City, and detonates the nuke.
Say it was New York. How would we respond? Could we simply launch off a nuke to who we THINK did this? no. We would have to figure out where this nuke came from, and even WHEN we found out, would we nuke Afghanistan? or Iraq? (or other Country this group came from?)
It's hard to say 'yes'. I mean.. it was a 'group' of people that did this, not the 'whole' of ANY Country. And we couldn't launch one off at Russia, it would be over for all of us on the Planet.
So how WOULD be react? That is a question that BURNS in the minds of the NSA and CIA these days I bet.. It's SO VERY real a threat. Do we kill millions of innocents to equal their wrath?
Comments?
Very hard to see a 'GOOD' outcome. I think we would probably gear up a MASSIVE force. The Draft would be activated... oh boy.. I hope someone is looking over us--a higher power.