While Iran is making their Nuclear Facilities....

[Modelworks]

Any of these countries will have to use whatever weapon they make covertly. They can't openly use it unless they are prepared for instant suicide. We all know they would be bombed to shreds. The response probably wouldn't even be nuclear as it isn't warranted. Conventional weapons can destroy these developing countries just fine and leaves them ripe for taking of the resources.

Dirty bombs would fit a terrorist even more than a single nuke. Imagine the panic people would have if someone detonated a dirty bomb in a mall. Immediate death would be low, but all the people who were there, the people that clean it up, every one of them will be left worrying, what the exposure is doing to them for life. Even if they didn't use enough material for it to be harmful, just the thought of something 'radioactive' is enough to keep people scared for years. It wouldn't matter if the government told people there was nothing to fear from the exposure, they would still have the doubt.

Dirty bombs are way more effective .

 

[BansheeX]

Originally posted by: Craig234

Originally posted by: BansheeX
The MAD concept isn't that hard to understand. No nuclear capable country has ever invaded or nuked another nuclear capable country. Nukes = peacemaker.

That's an absurd theory.

It breaks down even with two 'mature' superpowers, as where the US and the USSR came closer to a massive nuclear exhange than most realize, and you had Joint Chiefs of Staff members who favored a first strike an exchange. It breas down far more the more nations you add.

No it doesn't, it strengthens the more nations you add. The more nations have nukes, the less likely any exchange is going to occur. Would a country rather admit defeat or turn it into a draw by obliterating both sides? Invasion is futile.

Human nature proves one thing in history well, that 'MAD' does not finally deter, as we see people, groups, nations again and again make the poor choice with a very high price.

What history are you talking about? No nuclear capable country has ever invaded or nuked another nuclear capable country.

Does the annihilation Japan and Germany faced by choosing WWII as just one example give you any sense of how ineffective such a detterant finally is?

Japan was not a nuclear capable country, that's why using nukes against them was an option.

While it can prevent some wars, can deter and delay wars, when the war finally comes the price is very high, and it's a terrible policy.

Umm, okay, still waiting for the magical war to occur between nuclear capable nations. If the goal was to annihilate your enemy, you wouldn't want to annihilate yourself in order to do it. Face it, nuclear capable countries are forced to live in peace with each other because the only alternative is mass suicide.