Exactly what it says on the tin. What do you picture being the political and economic fallout of the U.S launching nuclear missiles into Afghanistan after 9/11 as revenge?
How would you know? There's a reason that seal team six was used to eventually take down OBL rather than a bombing raid on the compound.What if Bin Laden was killed in the explosion?
If more than 20,000 civilians were killed in the attacks it may be considered justified as long as it was a tactical warhead. It may also have to be on a non-civilian target such as Al-Qaeda training camps or the fleeing leadership.
If more than 20,000 civilians were killed in the attacks it may be considered justified as long as it was a tactical warhead. It may also have to be on a non-civilian target such as Al-Qaeda training camps or the fleeing leadership.
Tactical weapons used on non-civilian targets like Tora Bora would have been accepted by a vast majority of Americans OTL.
The majority of Americans would have supported much harder, nastier and more extreme things then Bush actually did after 911. Many people here seem to have the idea Bush did the limit or pushed beyond the limit of what American public option would allow for, but it's a very inaccurate retrospective goggles based on views developed many years after 911.
More reason for Iran and North Korea to develop their own nukes.Exactly what it says on the tin. What do you picture being the political and economic fallout of the U.S launching nuclear missiles into Afghanistan after 9/11 as revenge?
North Korea only went nuclear in the years after the U.S. invaded Iraq. Few believed that in the modern age America had the audacity to launch such an invasion, but did and is freaked out others opposed by the United States.
Indeed. 9/11 pissed Americans off about as much as Pearl Harbor did and Bush could have gotten away with tactical use of nukes in places such as Tora Bora. I, however, disagree with the assertion that people would have been OK with thousands of civilian casualties. Bombing cities hadn't been done since WW2 and in the 21st century such things will be displayed on TV and the internet.
So they had minimally according to the IAEA one to two weapons worth of highly enriched Uranium in 2002 because? They withdrew from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty before the Iraq war because?
The Iraq War wasn't the start of the North Korean nuclear program, it was very far along with huge resources and effort invested in it before the war.
A mushroom cloud over Kabul would have Americans celebrating in the streets. Sure, there'd be a voice or two saying "isn't this a bit disproportionate?", but those voices would be pretty quiet at first.
But if/when Bush becomes unpopular, it would be yet another bad thing Bush did, and probably treated similarly to the Iraq War OTL.
No it was the catalyst for them to begin building a functioning bomb. The Axis of Evil speech probably had a role in that too.