WI: Terrorist Groups Acquire "Nuke"; First City To Go Is...?

"The Conservative Fellah", no one who truly understand terrorism believes for one moment that any terrorist group wants a nuclear device.

Shall I tell you why?

"It is because a campaign of terrorism has NOTHING to do with mass death on the scale of witch a nuclear device operates.

One a nuclear device is used, terrorism is completly beside the point, there is nothing more you can do. You have already done the worst thing you can do.

But,

A campaign of shrapnel bombs planted in grocery and retail stores and pharmacies?

Well, now, that is another story entirly, isn't it?

The targets are soft, in addition they are quite literally spiking the watering hole and the feeding ground of their prey.

If you wish to embark on the campaign of terror that will do irreparible damage to the morale of a western industrialized nation, you do NOT bomb ONE city.

You bomb multiple small scale targets at seeming random in cities all over the country.

You convince "The infidel" that at any time, in any place, when he shops for his food, when he gets his pills, when he goes to fuel his car, the Wrath of "Allah" or God, or Yahweh or whomever will strike him down.

DO that for long enough and society will be parylized with fear.

ANd you can do that for much cheaper and easier and with much greater effectivness than anything you can do with ONE nuclear device that you had to spend every resource you had, to get.

Do you understand?

i didn't start the thread, i answered the question. if you're going to direct that at someone it should be the person who wrote the thread.
 
not according to a documentary i watched on the subject

and a congressional report: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116177/What-happen-nuclear-bomb-hit-Washington-D-C.html

The Daily Mail is not the best of sources, but there's also the fact that the designated survivor is almost certainly not in the White House to begin with. The location of the survivor is kept secret, and for good reason. Given that the procedures originated at the height of Cold War paranoia of a nuclear attack, I find it very unlikely that the survivor would be anywhere near a likely nuclear target.
 
The Daily Mail is not the best of sources, but there's also the fact that the designated survivor is almost certainly not in the White House to begin with. The location of the survivor is kept secret, and for good reason. Given that the procedures originated at the height of Cold War paranoia of a nuclear attack, I find it very unlikely that the survivor would be anywhere near a likely nuclear target.
One of these days I will figure out this bixarre preoccupation men have for nuclear weapons.

I have not done it yet, but I will.
 
One of these days I will figure out this bixarre preoccupation men have for nuclear weapons.

I have not done it yet, but I will.

Nuclear war is the 'end' right? Humanity has always had a facination with the end of the world .Its been the subject of speculation probably since man had leisure time. All religions including Christianity dwell on the end times, Armeggedon ,ragnorok, gotterdamerung the list is long . Even the last Narnia book has as its theme the end of the world!
On a personal level its the end of that 6am alarm call, the drive through traffic, the guy in the next cubicle with the annoying cough.
Of course you survive and remake the world in your image... thats a given:rolleyes:
 
bourough-in-furness....

aafter which terriosts would be proclaimed heros for gettign rid of the dump
 
Nuclear war is the 'end' right? Humanity has always had a facination with the end of the world .Its been the subject of speculation probably since man had leisure time. All religions including Christianity dwell on the end times, Armeggedon ,ragnorok, gotterdamerung the list is long . Even the last Narnia book has as its theme the end of the world!
On a personal level its the end of that 6am alarm call, the drive through traffic, the guy in the next cubicle with the annoying cough.
Of course you survive and remake the world in your image... thats a given:rolleyes:
But that's just it, Terrorists don't WANT the end of the world, by definition they want two things, A) to be listened to and B) To be obeyed, and the finality and brutality of a nuclear weapon gives them neither.

If a Terrorist were to get a nuclear weapon, it would be a weapon he would not be able to use. Why, because in the real world if he mortgaged his network to the hilt and traded away every favor he had, if he were lucky he MIGHT get ONE.

That's it. At that point he has ONE nuclear device that he might not even know how to arm or activate.

What the heck is he supposed to do then?

What's more is that like as not EVERY intelligence and law enforcement service in the world is looking for HIM.

Former friends are happy to rat him out and that weapon is a radiation source that is shining like a beacon telling sattelites and sensors,

"The bad guy is over HERE!"

He cannot ever use it because if he does, or if he even threatens to use it the former empties his option box and the latter tells the lawe that HE's the guy they're looking for.

Bad news either way.

So, all that having been said, What exactly is a terrorist going to want a nuke for, again?
 
But that's just it, Terrorists don't WANT the end of the world, by definition they want two things, A) to be listened to and B) To be obeyed, and the finality and brutality of a nuclear weapon gives them neither.

If a Terrorist were to get a nuclear weapon, it would be a weapon he would not be able to use. Why, because in the real world if he mortgaged his network to the hilt and traded away every favor he had, if he were lucky he MIGHT get ONE.

That's it. At that point he has ONE nuclear device that he might not even know how to arm or activate.

What the heck is he supposed to do then?

What's more is that like as not EVERY intelligence and law enforcement service in the world is looking for HIM.

Former friends are happy to rat him out and that weapon is a radiation source that is shining like a beacon telling sattelites and sensors,

"The bad guy is over HERE!"

He cannot ever use it because if he does, or if he even threatens to use it the former empties his option box and the latter tells the lawe that HE's the guy they're looking for.

Bad news either way.

So, all that having been said, What exactly is a terrorist going to want a nuke for, again?

Yes no honour amongst theives .Just some thoughts Firstly terrorists are by definition abnormal from a psychological standpoint history is full of people willing to sacrafice their lives for a cause.
For my self trouble caused by obtaining a nuke is not worth it use it and the western response will make the response to 9/11 look like a tea party there will be regime change but it will be delivered by ICBM
 
Yes no honour amongst theives .Just some thoughts Firstly terrorists are by definition abnormal from a psychological standpoint history is full of people willing to sacrafice their lives for a cause.
For my self trouble caused by obtaining a nuke is not worth it use it and the western response will make the response to 9/11 look like a tea party there will be regime change but it will be delivered by ICBM
That is why for my money, were I to completly lose my blessed mind and take up terrorism as a hobby, I would be the Wal-Mart Bomber.

Shrapnel bombs, laced with anti coagulant chemicals so the victims of the blast bleed out right there, and just for thrills I would make every bomb a twofer.

One bomb goes off, then when first responders show up the second bomb goes off specifically to hurt them and discourage thjem from coming next time.

See? Aren't you glad I am NOT a terrorist?
 
I would put the nuke in the Canarias islands, inside volcano Cumbe Vieja; then the explosion will create the biggets tsunami , that would destroy the entire west cost of USa and also some parts of Europe;
so, you have there a big attack
 
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