On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:15:04 GMT, "Matt Wiser"
wrote:


"Linda Terrell" wrote:

Hiroshima was a military target -- it was
a port with with several
railroad lines running in and out of it.
That means supplies going
to the Army.

So does that make entire cities like San Diego
"military targets" as
well? If al-Qaeda or North Korea nuked Arlington
or DC, would you
chalk it up as a respectable act of war?

Damn straight, then turn their military targets
into sheets of glass.

LT

--

Which is exactly what will happen if they EVER pop a nuke anywhere. 20 plus
minutes for a pair of Trident SSBNs, or 6-8 hours for B-2s with B-52s shooting
ALCMs. A brutal but effective object lesson.

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Minor problem-- Al Qaeda has no bases...and their greatest base of
support seems to be coming from Pakistan and Saudia Arabia...which are
our allies.

That is, of course, one of the biggest arguements for preventing
large scale proliferation-- a nuke in the hands of any organization,
terrorist, criminal or otherwise with no major bases of cities to
defend is an utter nightmare, because right now the only defense
against nukes IS detterence.