If terrorists aquired nukes would they use them?

[Aeson]

"I can't believe anyone would think..." is a rather commonly used euphamism for "... is stupid". Certainly it shouldn't be taken as a statement of naivety when ... has already been expressed.

[Lancer]

If the terrorists nuke Paris the French would reply with harsh language?

[Lancer]

Hell, the French would nuke GreenPeace if they could get enough of them in one spot.

[Aeson]

Would you rather they nuke the US if they thought they had found some ties between us and the terrorists?

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Lancer
If the terrorists nuke Paris the French would reply with harsh language?

No, they would be very silent. At least the Parisians.

Anyway, since when is France a role model for you?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Lancer
If the terrorists nuke Paris the French would reply with harsh language?

Obviously, considering that the US is a terrorist country, we'd nuke the US.

[Diadem]

French would surrender, of course.

The problem is that they wouldn't know who to surrender to. That's the nature of terrorism. I am not sure how France would solve this problem. They'd either surrender to everybody, or commit mass suicide, I suspect.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Diadem
French would surrender, of course.

The problem is that they wouldn't know who to surrender to. That's the nature of terrorism. I am not sure how France would solve this problem. They'd either surrender to everybody, or commit mass suicide, I suspect.

[Zkribbler]

The French government might surrender, but not the French people.

For example, in WWII the government caved like a house of cards; the people fought on.

When Napolean was exiled to Elba, when he turned up again, the whole French Army switched over to his side without a shot being fired.

[Guardian]

Originally posted by Diadem
French would surrender, of course.

Actually, the "surrendering French" thing is getting quite old.
Plus, in my opinion, it is both inaccurate and unfair in the first place.

True, the German panzers did overrun the French army and the French government collapsed like a house of cards, but like Zkribbler said, the French as a people never did surrender. As a matter of fact, the French resistance was one of the largest, best organized and most successful in all of occupied Europe. They harassed the hell out of the Germans whenever they found a good opportunity to do so and they provided invaluable assistance to the Allies both before and after D-Day. Without them, the war would have been both longer and bloodier for the Allies.

Where is the surrender in that?

As for the fact that they lost all their colonial wars... well, NEWSFLASH: So did everybody else!

Plus, if you look around in the world today with open eyes, you'll see that France is still a major power in Europe and a relatively big player on the world stage. No, the French are not eager to commit to military action unless they believe it's absolutely necessary, but when they do, their forces are right there on the front line and often among the first to go in.

I ask again: Where is the surrender in that?

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Can we nuke Mecca right after that?

I would rather have special forces raid Mecca, steal the black stone, and then send it in a rocked to the sun

[TCO]

No. Of course not. For one thing, terrorists never want to kill civilians. For another, terrorists have a fixed base and are easily counterattacked and deterred by threats against it.

Does the Pope **** in the woods?

[TCO]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
There is an interesting article in Spoektrum der wissenschaft (the german edition of scientific american)
where it is said that a wise move would be (if the terrorists have a rocket as a carrier system for the weapon) to detonate the weapon in orbit, thereby eleminating a lot of the satellites in Orbit as well as computer on the ground via EMP, and also making replacing the satellites hard or even impossible for about one year because of the high amount of radiation that will only slowly disappear.

As the western civilization is very dependant on satellites this would have a much greater effect than "just" detonating the bomb in some american city.

Pathetic. German. Cluelessness.

Terrorists need terror. Costing a bunch of money does jack ****. Of course the Germans with their dhimmified love of the terrorists would think that the killers would rather not kill. Stupid. A real terrorist goes for the balls!

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by TCO


Pathetic. German. Cluelessness.

Terrorists need terror. Costing a bunch of money does jack ****. Of course the Germans with their dhimmified love of the terrorists would think that the killers would rather not kill. Stupid. A real terrorist goes for the balls!

Nobody said that they would do it (i.e. attacking the satellite system, instead of the cities)

What I said was rather that they should do it if they´re smart,
as they can create a lot more damage to the western economy as well as chaos than by just nuking a city


btw.
the article about the nuclear explosions in orbgit was written by an american author, Daniel Dupont
and was also published 2 years before in Scientific american:

http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/yspace/articles/nuclear_explosions.htm

[Lancer]

Are the French still nuking paradise on a regular basis? If not, have they signed on to the testing ban?