Nuclear proliferation has reached the point where any Rogue state can use a terrorist group to plant a nuke without fear of reprisal. The two most likely targets are London and New York because both are major harbors with too much small boat traffic to inspect.
That destroys the MAD theory. If New York gets nuked, who do we nuke back? Pakistan, Iran, or the Norks? There is no way of telling who would be behind the caper, no way of believing anyone foolish enough to claim it. The Middle East of full of people twisty enough to pop a nuke, then call in a claim in the name of their enemy. The NPT has failed, mainly thru it’s violation by Russia and China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty
On a positive note, New York getting nuked would be the best thing that ever happened to the USA. Several metric tons of Media types, movie stars, TV personalities and crooked politicians blowing out to sea as radioactive particles. I’ll bet there are a lot of Englanders that feel the same way.
The Mad Dog Mullahs know this, which is why they hid their A-bomb test among a series of earthquakes. If they go public, they are setting up for Israel to nuke New York, then standing back and watching the USA turn Iran into a parking lot that glows in the dark.
India could do the same with Pakistan but Indians are not quite that twisty.
I bring this up because now is not a good point in history to have Ali Obama and the 40 thieves running things.
Have you ever seen a cabinet with more ambition and less talent? Maybe the Harding administration of Teapot Dome fame.
