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What if the 9/11 attacks killed an excess of 20,000 Americans in 2001. The US uses tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan following the attacks. How does the world react?
What if the 9/11 attacks killed an excess of 20,000 Americans in 2001. The US uses tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan following the attacks. How does the world react?
What if the 9/11 attacks killed an excess of 20,000 Americans in 2001. The US uses tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan following the attacks. How does the world react?
What if the 9/11 attacks killed an excess of 20,000 Americans in 2001. The US uses tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan following the attacks. How does the world react?
Yeah, leaving aside everything else about the US not using nuclear weapons as a general policy, there's nothing in Afghanistan (or even Iraq) worth using a tactical nuclear weapon on. The US had essentially uncontested air supremacy in both conflicts; any targets the US wanted to hit, could be hit with conventional weapons. The only ones that were tricky were ones that required precision targeting, and that's not something nukes are particularly good at.There really wouldn't be any target worth hitting with a nuclear weapon.
Why? What? A psychotic break on the part of the president??
There really wouldn't be any target worth hitting with a nuclear weapon.
This raises a question that has always disturbed me. Since congressional war powers have pretty much become irrelevant in the modern age, POTUS can launch a nuclear attack more or less whenever he wants against whomever he wants. So what would happen if a President actually did become somewhat unhinged and ordered a nuclear strike?
Unless it is during an actual attack I believe that it is a two-man system.
What if the 9/11 attacks killed an excess of 20,000 Americans in 2001. The US uses tactical nuclear weapons in Afghanistan following the attacks. How does the world react?
Taliban are wiped out, Saddam Hussein is scared straight, and people start calling Gore "Our real President".
Why would the US resort to nuclear weapons against guys with Kalashnikovs and RPGs?