Hate to tell you this, but (1) the energy released at the WTC was a few tenths of a kiloton of TNT, which is already equivalent, at the low end, to a tactical nuclear weapon, and (2) bin Laden has been reported, by credible intelligence organizations, to already have up to 20 tactical nukes that he obtained from the ex-Soviet Chechnyan arsenal.
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I, for one, discount some of that information, but if not today it is only a matter of time. So, our options are, wait for a crazed lunatic to order his terrorist gangsters to explode a few kiloton nuclear device in a major US city one, five, ten years from now, or pre-empt and clean them out in their nests while we have the upper hand.
I don't say we do this alone, I say we do this in concert with other nations that are willing to face the reality of this threat to civilization, and to take action that is unthinkable to some, but not unthinkable to the depraved fanatics hiding in camps that are hard to get to by anything but tactical nukes. It's called deterrence, and it kept a pax atomica for over 50 years after our first use. |
