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Originally Posted by scooter
The US appears to have the capability to detect the country of origin of any nuclear device detonated on US soil, so deniability won't really come into play.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/politics/02nuke.html
As far as Iran acting rationally, I'd stipulate that regardless of what rhetoric they throw out there most of their actions to date have been fairly calculated and rational in recent years. Using suicide bombers doesn't mean the one employing them is off their rocker, any more than the kamikazes in the pacific meant that Japan was an irrational actor fighting blindly. |
Okay, let's play into that assumption.
We lose our national electric grid from an EMP and discover that the fissionable material was Russian in origin. Half this country will die in the next year.
Do we then nuke them, and enact MAD?
What if it turns out to be Pakistani?
North Korean?
TR
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