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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It won't matter where you run to in thr US if someone nukes us.  It will be all out war and the US would launch massive nuclear strikes in retaliation. That would also cause more nukes to launched in response. The whole world would die of radiation posioning.[/quote]

I’m not sure that’s true in the case of a terroist attack dirty bomb.  Or a rogue attack by a country like Iran that only has limited weapons.  Would Russia or any significant nuclear power jump in with its nukes to defend Iran?  Probably not—they would just enjoy the benefits of our chaos.  It’s not like the old mutually assured destruction of the Cold War.  The civil disruption of having nearly the whole federal government wiped out would be significant however. [/quote]
If Iran wants to set off a dirty bomb, sure, they can go right ahead and do it. They can enjoy being nuked into oblivion and the US can oblige them by carpet bombing their entire country with dirty bombs so that their entire civilization and peole will no longer be able to inhabit the entire lands of Iran for the next 2000+ years.  Russia and China could try to defend, but they'd risk all put nuclear holocaust because the US would oblige Iran's stupidity + 100x more.

Most of the govt is outside of DC anyway. You can immediately tell where radioactive material comes from from a dirty bomb, so if any country wants to try a stupid move have fun with the response. [/quote]

A dirty bomb from Iran doesn't make any sense. They have a very limited amount of uranium. "Wasting" that material instead of refining it into a more powerful fission/fusion bomb doesn't maximize their efforts.

More traditional terrorism or biological weapons would be much cheaper and just as effective on American morale as a dirty weapon.[/quote]

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