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If Iraq launched a nuke at US, how do you think our governments would react?

Okay. Well, in any case, if any country does fire a nuke at U.S., I'm pretty sure the U.S. would be itching to bomb to living crap out of them.
 
the us has nuclear subs stationed all over the world and is capable of nucin anyplace at anytime. the us would have a nuc in the air before the iraq nuc would have detonated. but iraq doesnt have the long range capabilities so this is all pointless
 
Wouldn't there be huge political repercussions if we nuked Iraq? Civilians would be killed. Pollution would float around the middle east, angering those countries!
 
Well, if Iraq nuked the U.S., I'm pretty sure there would be quite a few people dead too. That would probably enable the U.S. to reason with other allies to either nuke, or raid until they take out Saddam's entire regime. Kill now, deal with issues later. 😛
 
Let me reiterate: "no ABC weapons"

anyway... an average modern Nuke does damage equal to about 50megatons of TNT (correct me If i'm wrong)
 
Okay GreenBeret, I hear ya! 🙂 I doubt Saddam would do something stupid like that right now. He's pretty much cozied up, with the U.S. in a lose-lose situation. U.S. is pretty much branded up as the bad guy, partly due to the Bush administration's sloppy job. Hussein's making about $1 billion a year in illegal trade activities (I think it was somewhere around that amount), so why the hell would he destroy anyone? He could just sit there screwing around with the U.S., while probably laughing at us squabble over how to get rid of him.
 


<< wouldn't have this question if bush senior had finished his #@% job. >>



And what exactly was the job at the time, liberate Kuwait or kill Saddam? The gutless libby's around the world took one look at the &quot;highway of death&quot; and started squealing like little 10 year old dancing girls, &quot;Stop the killing&quot;!

If I've got this straight because the US is the last superpower we're supposed to sit back and let the nukes detonate on our soil, then with hat in hand ask the rest of the world if we can please retaliate? Somebody needs to get a freaking clue.

I think the biggest nuke we've got is 5 megatons. Plenty big enough to turn Bagdad and about 30 miles of the surrounding neighborhood into a parking lot.
 
doesn't matter, unless he detonates an insane number of nukes in a bunch of major cities, we wouldn't shoot back. We would however have full justification to level all of iraq the conventional way.
 
The American people wouldn't never allow a president to retaliate with conventional weapons after a nuclear detonation on American soil. Doesn't matter how many, how big, or where it was.

 
Well then maybe it would be in the best interests of the rest of the people in the region to get rid of the freaking maniac before he turns them into innocent casualties.

Depending on which the wind blows a nuke going off on American soil would have some consequences for Canada and even Europe. It's OK to ignore those consequences but not the consequences to Saddam's neighbors?
 


<< I think the biggest nuke we've got is 5 megatons. >>



&quot;A dirty device derived from the Bassoon was weaponized to create the highest yield weapon the U.S. ever fielded, the 25 megaton Mk-41. The Tsar Bomba design was for a fission-fusion-fission bomb with a staggering yield of at least 100 megatons!&quot;

linky
 
If one person launched a nuke, and then we did, and then one of their allies did in return.
It would not matter at the end, we would all die.
But the nuke would get shot out of the sky. And then the US would have full go to take Iraq out.
 
Interesting link, thanks.

I still believe the biggest we've got today is 5M tons. I think we dismantled the big stuff as a condition of one of the start treaties. If I remember correctly those weapons were physically very large, nothing like the size of a modern MIRV or cruise missle warhead.
 
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