Anybody see Last Best Chance last night? Newsweek’s Johnathan Alter caught the nuclear terror docu-drama:
It lacks special effects (too expensive) and a satisfying ending (too unrealistic), but effectively offers an all-too-plausible scenario of how a Russian scientist desperate for cash could provide highly enriched uranium through middlemen to Arab jihadists. So, American Hiroshima begins, says one terrorist.
I couldnt get my kids to watch it. My daughter said it was Too much of a downer, which about describes the attitude of policymakers. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said early this year there was no huge problem with the security of nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union. But Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, which studied the issue at length, strongly disagree. They believe nuclear terrorism is a distinct possibility…
Of all the varieties of incompetence in this, the Age of Incompetence, the most deadly involves the potential of nuclear terrorism. After years of foot dragging, Presidents Bush and Putin have finally agreed at summit meetings this year that it is the single most serious threat in the world todayfar more likely than a nuclear exchange by superpowers. And yet they and their governments are not following through quickly enough to secure loose nukes at their source. At the pace were going, it will be 13 years2018before all of them are recovered and deactivated, by which time even the most sober analysts believe terrorists will likely have blown up and contaminated some city forever.
It’s been kinda quiet around here the past week or so, maybe this will get a little action started. I will endeavor to upset everyone.
One of President Bushe’s security measures that I don’t disagre with is maintaining the nuclear arsenal at a ready level. In the past during the Cold War MAD served to neutralize the use option on both the major sides. The minor players were in effect frozen out of the nuclear game.
Now we have a different set of players. They have no country, no assets that they treasure or even their own lives that they consider worth perserving. The consequences of the use of nuclear weapons is of little or no concern to them.
In that light the only option avaible to the United States in the event of a nuclear attack/strike on American soil would be retaliation in kind to any third party that would offered safe harbor or support to the group(s) who committed the act.
It makes no difference who is President Republican or Democrat there would be no other option as in the Cold War.
The current move to develope smaller yeld weapons like a 5Kt. war head or the bunker busting B85 are steps in the right direction. If nuclear weapons must be used, it is to everyone benefit to see that the most percise and lowest yeld weapons possable are used for a retaliatary strike.
To wipe out a country or a civilization in retaliation for a single act against or with in the United States is not the American way. The use of nuclear weapons y the United States would be judicious but it would happen, make no mistake about that.
The increasing boldness and desperation on the part of terrorits groups/organizations along with opportuntistic nations who will peddle both the technologly and the resources to construct and deliver a nuclear device says that these county(s) would be the target(s) of a U.S. strike(s).
The most likely target(s) for U.S. retaliation(s) would be the country(s) who faciliated the creation and use of said nuclear device by the terrorists.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner
“Stewart’s Platoon”
“The most likely target(s) for U.S. retaliation(s) would be the country(s) who faciliated the creation and use of said nuclear device by the terrorists.“
So… the Soviet Union? They don’t exist.
And what if the radioactive material is of American origin (as portrayed in the The Sum of All Fears)…
Or are “we” just going to pick some 3rd world country that is the base-of-operations-of-the-day?
I don’t mean these questions in an argumentative way.. simply, I believe valid questions given where nuclear technology actually comes from and who is responsible for its’ spread and security.
What if that country is Iraq?
What if the country is pakistan?
To All,
I really don’t think who the country of retaliation would make much difference if the U.S. took a direct attack. Like it or not this is the box that the Terrorists have put the United States into.
For any country, be it Iran, Pakistan, Iraq or any other who worked with a Terrorist Organization to develope and or helped deploy a explosive nuclear devive that was used against the United States it would be an act of state suicide.
If the weapon came from with in, I have no doubt that Islam in the United States would be over.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner
“Stewart’s Platoon”
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