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Originally Posted by peter12
This conversation is fascinating but downright chilling. I have to admit that I find any prospect of a nuclear exchange with Iran to be an awful outcome.
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I find a nuclear exchange of any kind to be an awful outcome, even one in the form of a dirty bomb on the streets of New York.
Which is a very real threat in this day and age.
MAD is a good doctrine if we're talking about China/India/Russia, but not such a good doctrine when we're talking about terrorist groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Queda, etc, etc.
These are people that strap a thousand ball bearings onto their chest and blow themselves up.
Having a choice between doing that and killing 10 people, and setting off a nuclear weapon in a city somewhere, I think we all know what they would pick.