What if: A suitcase nuke levels downtown New York

[Zylka]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Nuke them until they glow, then nuke them for glowing.

Hehehe... but I do want this to stay upon, Mr. Norris

[Hueij]

No one would ever take a stupid thread in poly as the first hit of news on a real issue

WTF? A stupid thread in poly was my first hit of news on a real issue a year ago

[Zylka]

Originally posted by Hueij

No one would ever take a stupid thread in poly as the first hit of news on a real issue

WTF? A stupid thread in poly was my first hit of news on a real issue a year ago

THEN YOU SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON POLY

[SlowwHand]

And Apolyton was indeed the first place I got the news.
Sitting down with my morning java, and there it was.

[Andrew1999]

Originally posted by Lemmy

The Constitution and the laws of war would be completely ignored in the following conflict.

and you wouldn't consider that a win for the terrorists?

It depends on who they are and what they want. The response I described would definitely be a bad thing. (I guess I should have put some smilies or something)

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by Lemmy

I'm sure such an incident would most likely lead to the equivalent of Armageddon,

how?
what if this time there is no way to be sure who financed it, or who was behind the attack?
I don't think the nuke would leave any evidence, and if noone claims the attack, then where would the US strike back?

That is an interesting point, although in Tom Clancy novels you can trace a nuclear detonation back to the facility where the fissible material was manufactured. And of course Jack Ryan and John Clark would have the bad guys IDs in about 84 pages.

[SuperSneak]

If we didn't know who did it, we'd probably start a massive retaliation against the likely suspects and then drop a hellstorm of nukes when we had it figured out. Do you think our administration would just sit back and wait for evidence?!? Ha ha ha...we'd probably nuke everyone on the way to the final target, just out of sheer rage.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Zylka


Hehehe... but I do want this to stay upon, Mr. Norris

I'm pret-ty sure I know what you meant by that.




While the towers were far and away the most devastating, one shouldn't neglect the Pentagon, and certainly shouldn't forget Flight 93.

[Capt Dizle]

Doesn't the NSA have to agree before POTUS can launch nukes?

[Gangerolf]

bomb the princes, sheiks and mullahs and install a democratic puppet government

[Lonestar]

It's been 60 years since we've had a globally destructive war. We're due.

[Jon Miller]

and this one will be bigger, longer and uncut

Jon Miller

[Ninot]

well.. we've only truly had 1 semi-globally destructive war
(unless you wish to argue that World War 1 was destructive to every bit of the globe, instead of mostly just Europe)

And i think we have yet to see what a true global war could be like. with the possibilities of a western-world vs. muslim world, that could change however.

but i hope to heavens we dont see it of course.

but would nuking Mecca be the equivalent to nuking New York? Well....

look at it this way. Mecca is the holiest city on the world to every Muslim. It can't be hard to find people in the USA who don't love NY.

So, nuking Mecca may be overboards, but its the same idea in theory. Nuke the one cardinal place everyone on "the other side" holds dear. For one, the center of capitalism and freedom, for the other, the holiest city ever.

In any case, i think if something so disasterous should happen to NY, the USA would probably have to conquer all lands even remotely suspected of harboring terrorists. Its not a matter of revenge, but trully safety. If a handful of whackos can obliterate millions of innocents in an instant, then something very drastic would have to be done.

[Lord Merciless]

First, you need to decide whether it's campagn against all Muslims or Arabs. I prefer if we only deal with Arabs first.

Some possible actions:

- Send all Arabs living here into camps.

- Tell Israel to finish off the Palestinians.

- Blow up Egypt's Assuan Dam.

- Tell India to finish off Pakistan.

- Control/destroy all water desalination plants in the Persian Gulf. (Water is more precious there than oil.)

- Take Saudi oil fields by force.

- Encourage right wing Euros to lock up on Arab immgrants.

- Give some candies to Turkey so it doesn't become a war against all Muslims. The "candies" may include Northern Irak oil fields and control over Mecca.

- Give some other candies to Iran as well. (We will deal with them after we are done with Arabs.)

[Lonestar]

Uhm....no?