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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ultra Magnus: [QB] Everyone's all talking about two bit "threats" like Cuba, when the real threat involving Nuclear Weapondry and/or WMD is the third point which Lee pointed out: [QUOTE]3. The only nuclear attack you're likely to suffer is a terrorist one. You gonna particle-beam Arab immigrants from orbit?[/QUOTE] Now, apart from the racist Arab stereotype, this is the real point. No superpower, or even a country that found a bomb in their shed is stupid enough to start anything Nuclear with the US. (I say US not because you're the penultimate 'Good Guy', which you're not, but because you're the only 'good' country emphatic about your nukes.) The term Mutually Assured Destruction is presumably translated into Russian, Farsi, Chinese and perhaps Mandarin. If not, "majorly bad fucking idea" is. Despit how "INSANE" & "CRAZY, BECAUSE HE'S NOT LIKE US!" & "BAD! NOT CONSTITUTION-BASED!" Some countries and leaders are, very few, if any are morons. You don't become the most powerful man in your country by being stupid. So what does that leave? Terrorists, really. And not just "Arab Immigrants" either. Timothy McVeigh used a ryder truck. What's the next organized (God thank the fact that none have yet been able to be anything than a group fo 4 angry trailer park truck drivers angry at taxes) going to use? Any terrorist group with enough organization & financial support can get their hands on any type of MWD they fancy. Apparently 'Security' & 'Nuclear' never figure into the same sentence. There are more than enough stories of Missing Russian, Chinese and American nuclear weapons, that one has to figure that if a terrorist operation really wanted one, they could probably get their hands on one. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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