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To: Road Walker who wrote (269821)	1/23/2006 8:37:57 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) of 1580831

"If they ever used them, everyone in Iraq would be dead, the country would be uninhabitable for 100 years." Which is exactly the point. I dunno, there are a lot more things to be worried about than nuclear weapons. Sure, they can be devastating, just ask Japan. But they are expensive to develop, expensive to maintain, difficult to deliver and would get the attention of everyone if they ever get used. Two fears have been expressed here. One, that Israel gets attacked with them. But just like between the USSR and the US, unless they can knock out Israel's ability to respond, it would be suicide to do it. And they can never be certain they can do that. The other fear is they would sell one or more to terrorists and the terrorists would use them against the US or Western Europe. The same logic applies, unless the target can be crippled, the blowback is going to be severe. And it would be fairly easy to guess who supplied the device based on the technology used. And the supplier wouldn't exist for too much longer after that.

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