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What would happen if a nuke was detonated in a US city?
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What would happen?
We'd destroy every terrorist including the towns where they sleep!
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We'd cower and ask for the terms of our surrender.
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We'd spend the next 6 months blaming the President.
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We'd keep doing what we're doing in the Middle East.
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Yo!Chingo



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea

PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:39 am    Post subject: What would happen if a nuke was detonated in a US city? Reply with quote

I personally say that there would be absolutely no problem recruiting new soldiers not only in the US but worldwide to go wup up on some terrorists, and this time there would be no half-a$$ing it!
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gang ah jee



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup, it'd be just the kick in the ass that 'MErica needs to get the job done properly.
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Julius



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bin laden and his operatives were recorded discussing using a dirty bomb in the US.

Bin laden said it was better to avoid it, as "things might get out of hand".
The Al Quadea plan is about wearing down and overstretching America gradually, not triggering massive retaliation instantly by using a nuclear device.

I don't doubt they had the capability though (at least formerly, if not now).
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Hank Scorpio



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Soldiers? Recruiting? We don't need to recruit ICBMs, which would be the only military unit used in response to such an attack. Regardless of the consequences or the international opinion fallout (pun intended) we'd vaporize the middle east, Israel be damned, and a good portion of SE Asia just to be sure.

We've played nuclear chicken before, with someone far better equipped to play along (although they also had the benefit of being sane).
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gang ah jee



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hank Scorpio wrote:
a good portion of SE Asia just to be sure.

Still not over Vietnam, eh?
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Hank Scorpio



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gang ah jee wrote:

Still not over Vietnam, eh?


Try portions of the Phillipines, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, etc.

Essentially anywhere that has a majority Muslim population.
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Beej



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would go something like this. US president addresses the world in a televised speech. He says something along the lines of " as a world community, we must ask ourselves what we will really miss about Islam. Is the cure for cancer coming from Islam? Will an Islamic nation be the first to land on Mars? Didnt think so". This speech will be followed by the complete nuclear destruction of every city in every Islamic country. You can take this to the bank.
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Moldy Rutabaga



Joined: 01 Jul 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
The Al Quadea plan is about wearing down and overstretching America gradually, not triggering massive retaliation instantly by using a nuclear device.

True. Maybe if terrorists are indeed terrorists, their tool is fear and not destruction. Nuking a city would simply bring on a nasty response, and there would likely be no international voices condemning US actions as a brake.

Worse, think what would happen if a nuclear attack caused such destabilization and collapse of local authority that anti-Muslim vigilantes seized an American bomb installation and carried out their own terror attack on Mecca. Groups such as Al Queda must have thought of such possibilities already. But I'm just offering a scenario.

Ken:>
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djsmnc



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



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SuperFly



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bush would try to nuke Mecca. Then he'd realize, after checking the map, that Mecca is in S/A and so he'd settle for Tehran.
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happeningthang



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hank Scorpio wrote:
gang ah jee wrote:

Still not over Vietnam, eh?


Try portions of the Phillipines, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, etc.

Essentially anywhere that has a majority Muslim population.


Phillipines - They're 95% Christians, minority Muslims.

Sri Lanka - Buddhists, and Hindus, minority Muslims.

Malaysia - Well, you got one out of three.

But Gung Ho, GO, GO, GO - U.S.A, U.S.A !!! Rolling Eyes
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Hank Scorpio



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

happeningthang wrote:
Well, you got one out of three.

But Gung Ho, GO, GO, GO - U.S.A, U.S.A !!! Rolling Eyes


And? That's why I said portions of the Phillipines, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, etc. Low yield nukes would suffice for the heterogenous countries.
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Yo!Chingo



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Personally I think the US using a nuclear weapon in response to nukes being used on American soil would be a death sentence for the rest of the world. Violence would only escalate to the point of our extinction. No, we and the rest of the Western world would just go to the terrorists home countries with about 10 million soldiers and bomb the hell of them.
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Hank Scorpio



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yo!Chingo wrote:
Personally I think the US using a nuclear weapon in response to nukes being used on American soil would be a death sentence for the rest of the world.


You're probably right. We'd still do it.
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ChopChaeJoe



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a pretty stupid question. What kind of nuke are you even talking about? What was the delivery system?

A dirty bomb could involve zero casaulties, a megaton nuke several million. The response is somehow going to be the same for either?
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