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I dont see nukes ever really being used. Even if Al-Quaeda managed to get their hands on a true nuclear weapon, there would not be a nuclear reprisal for it. I think we would MOAB and Daisy-Cutter the middle east into a giant hole in the ground, but no nukes.
I dont believe that any other country would stand by us ever again after such a thing. Many of them would no doubt attack us for having used them.
I used this scenario after 911 to describe what America could do if we truly wanted to erradicate the threat from that part of the world:
Carpet bomb the entire area and pepper it with missles armed with VX gas. There, every breating living being would die a horrible death.
"Cleanse" the nerve gas with a full on Nuclear aasault. The fission/fusion reaction would destroy the nerve gas at a molecular level. The heat would turn all of the sand and stone in the middle east to glass. Anything that managed to survive the previous 2 waves would starve or dehydrate in less than a day or two.
Lastly, track anything that is moving on the ground with satellites. use GPS to kill it with a cruise missle.
after a month, not even tumbleweed would remain.
Would we? Hell no. That would make us the most evil country that ever existed. Do we posses the means to this end? Yup.
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