Reply #236: they run that risk now

[krispos42]

Bush, remember, was trying to set of a simulated nuclear bomb in Nevada. Divine Strake. Equivilent to 0.6 kilotons.

The nuclear fallout of a relalitary strike on Iran would contaminate Pakistan and India, with over a quarter of the world's population. And both have nuclear weapons, and would be really unhappy with us poisoniong everybody with, say, lungs. North Korea borders China, which has nuclear-tipped ICBMs, and South Korea, which is a major world industrial power. North Korea is also across a sea from Japan, the worlds second-largeest economy. I doubt either of those three players would appreciate having radioactive fallout on them, either.

This is getting too dicey to think about. Iran or North Korea may get taken out, but there is a real chance of wordwide economic collapse. Anarchy, starvation, mass casualties.