As a big Spidey fan from my childhood onwards I am actually glad they did re-boot it.
ASM is the big-screen Spidey we should have gotten first time round.
IIRC Plumbbob was a nuclear test series. I am reading Area 51 which goes into detail on it and also Project 57 which was the "dirty bomb" test that came just before it.
I do not see the US using CW or BW to respond "in kind". These weapons are of even less use in this kind of conflict than an air dropped nuke.
Even in 91 the US had sufficiently advanced conventional weapons that nothing in the WMD bracket would be required. Nowadays NBC weapons are more so...
Sadly both are a bit out of date when it comes to nuclear warfare.
Better trying Von Clausewitz who despite pre-dating nuclear weapons at least covers the concepts that still play today.
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I was trying so hard not to be arrogant as it would have been very easy to have been insulting as well.
You are entitled to your opinion and I can see that you are not to be dissuaded from it.
Can I ask you an honest question, what age are you? This is not an attempt at sarcasm or...
There is almost no chance that the US would have used nuclear weapons during this conflict. No matter what Saddam did in-theatre.
Had Saddam had the capability to actually pose sufficient threat that the US would contemplated nuclear release then there would have been no war, simply a very...