POLITICAL: Defending the Arsenal

[Snusophile]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...6fa_fact_hersh

Your opinions, fears, concerns.

Is converting to a purely diplomatic strategy in Pakistan our best hope, or are we on the brink of nuclear destruction?

[sgreger1]

I was told that the understandings on nuclear coöperation benefitted from the increasingly close relationship between...

What a bunch of Lösers :lol:


The issue with Pakistan is that their security sucks and there is rumor that the people who helped create Pakistan's nuclear program openly admitted to selling information about it to certain militant groups. Either way whether that is just a rumor or not, we know their security is sub par so the US is given only a few options on how to deal wth it.

Do like we always seem to do and give them millions of dollars to build better facilities and train/arm their security forces better (This always backfires on us),

Or we can have a large US presence in Pakistan, which of course will not look good politically because it will be seen as a growing of the war effort.

Odds are we will just throw more cash at them.

Pakistan is probably the best place for a terrorist to be able to get small scale nuclear devices to use on US soil since they are so crappily guarded. Unless Iran starts selling off nukes to militant groups someday, Pakistan is the easiest place for the bad guys to get nukes from.


But, it's been 8 years and as far as we know they havn't gotten any yet, so how real the threat is can be debated.



So, to answer your question, diplomacy is probably all we can really do right now, which really means throwing money at the problem. Nuclear annihalation is always a threat since it is too easy to get a suitcase nuke onto US soil, but no one has managed to do it yet.

Only time will tell.

My question is, if a nuke did find it's way into a US city, how would the adminstration handle it? More war? Against the same guys? Not sure what the right answer would be. We've wasted enough money already.