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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (614)	12/17/2002 9:39:12 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

My guess is that against Iraq, we'd use neutron bombs, which have little of the heat and blast effect, a much greater radiological effect, over a much smaller area, with far less residual fallout. The reason we'd use nuclear weapons is exactly the reason you are opposed to it -- they are shockingly destructive. Using nuclear weapons worked in Japan, and there's every reason to think they'd work in Iraq. Worked in this case means galvanizes public opinion against the regime. There's a limit to the ability of the public to tolerate nuclear exposions without panic, terror, anger, and all the other normal reactions.