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To: Scumbria who wrote (130948)	1/29/2001 4:11:36 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571204

A nuclear missile is traced from the source, and everyone in the home country dies. Under certain perhaps very unlikely circumstances that might be what someone wants. If you get a country where central control of nuclear weapons has broken down (or perhaps nuclear power that doesn't have adequate controls like secure launch codes to begin with), and a fundamentalist fraction, or a terrorist organization, or even a commando group from another country gets control of a nuclear missile, the strike might be as much to provoke retaliation as it is to hurt the US. Also would everyone in the home country die? If China took out San Francisco, would we nuke 1 (or several) good sized Chinese cities, would we concentrate a strike on their military or would we unload a good portion of our nuclear arsenal into China. I guess it depends on who is president at the time. Tim