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2006-04-10 11:05 am
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So apparently the Bush admin has learned that land wars in Asia are folly, which is why the Iran war is gonna keep it real with bomber-delivered tac nukes. I mean, it makes sense from a historical perspective. Every country we've ever nuked before surrendered immediately, right? Why didn't we think of this ages ago?

It'd be pretty funny if it turns out that RL is like Civ and using nukes automatically causes every country in the world to declare war on you. Whoops Now's our chance to legitimately annex Canada by right of conquest though. 54 40 or fight!
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2002-03-09 04:18 pm
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Boom

When I read the headline Congress provided with report on potential nuclear targets, I thought it referred to a list drafted of domestic sites that bad guys might want to blow up.

No, it's a list drafted of sites abroad that we might want to blow up.

I suppose in some way it's just a restructuring of how it was for a long time, just bringing our bombs up to date. During the Cold War, each warhead, silent in its silo, certainly had a specific destination in mind. That list has been rather well obsolete for a while.

Such rationalization doesn't make me that much more comfortable, though.