Defense Secretary Gates says he’s worried about the decline in the overall U.S. nuclear arsenal as a deterrent to rogue nations and actors.
You’re either clueless or else shilling for a job in the nuclear weapons industry after Jan. 20, 2009.
First, folks like al-Qaeda are basically undeterrable. In fact, an exchange of suitcase-sized “dirty bomb” for a true nuclear warhead would probably be welcomed as an invitation to martyrdom.
A half a dozen bombs would deter a Libya from actually doing anything if a country like it got a bomb.
Pakistan, unless it truly descends into lunacy, has no plans to aim at us. And, even it did, if we were dumb enough to get in a direct exchange, rather than using New Delhi as a surrogate, well, we’d be about dumb enough to “deserve” it.
Besides, with most of these follks, delivery is as much an issue as the actual weapon. Look at North Korea. Its ICBM was as much a flop as its A-bomb was.
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