What I mean is that they don't have the nuclear capacity of the old USSR. The Soviets could nuke us from shore to shore, and we could return the favor. Even China does not currently have the capacity to do a shore to shore in the US (or the range for that matter).
I don't think its the weapon itself we need to fear, we need to more concerned with the fallout, both nuclear and policical. A single terrorist nuclear weapon could thus be more dangerous than the entire cold war arsenel.
I would speculate that Isreal would fall victim to nuclear terrorism first though. Tel Aviv being the biggest nuclear terrorist target in the world in my opinion.
[Devils advocate = on] [Insensitive idiot = on] If Jerusalem got nuked though, it might be fairly nice. No more worries about whos temple is where. The nuke would certainly cause some commotion in the world, but the Jerusalem problem would be solved for the long run.
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Date: 2004-04-09 11:27 am (UTC)I don't think its the weapon itself we need to fear, we need to more concerned with the fallout, both nuclear and policical. A single terrorist nuclear weapon could thus be more dangerous than the entire cold war arsenel.
I would speculate that Isreal would fall victim to nuclear terrorism first though. Tel Aviv being the biggest nuclear terrorist target in the world in my opinion.
[Devils advocate = on]
[Insensitive idiot = on]
If Jerusalem got nuked though, it might be fairly nice. No more worries about whos temple is where. The nuke would certainly cause some commotion in the world, but the Jerusalem problem would be solved for the long run.