I love that I know a guy like you who got to do some real s***. :)
Break it down for the less educated, tho. Explain in more detail while ISIS would use a nuke right away if they had it. Your comments are cryptic enough that, yeah, *I* understand them, but Freeper Gertrude in her robe and bunny slippers will still be freaked out at the headline of this thread.
Help Gertrude sleep better tonight. :)
Post 26 is gonna keep her up ...... stay safe !
Consider what would happen if Russian, Israel, or even Saudi Arabia had solid intel that ISIS had a functional nuclear device? Now, forget what bammy & crew would do - probably send them help with maintaining it "for everyone's safety."
But if these other powers who have felt the sting of ISIS' found out ISIS had nukes... They wouldn't hesitate, they wouldn't take the chance that they might draw the short straw and be the ones ISIS picked to use it on. No, any of them would immediately marshal their forces and absolutely level any place and every place ISIS might have it stored. No worries about collateral damage or civilian casualties, no quarter given, bomb those sites back to the stone age then bounce the rubble.
Now, you think ISIS may have worked that out on their own too? That nukes, while extremely powerful both physically and politically are a tremendous liability? So if they had one or more, every hour they held it/them would increase the likelihood of getting completely stomped, possibly even hit by a tactical nuke themselves. So if they ever get one, they need to use it quickly. That implies they would want to already have plans drawn up to use whatever they might obtain - so that they could go on mere minutes or at worst a few hours notice. Anything else, they risk it leaking, and total annihilation.
Because if they do get one they will have to us it or lose it ..... they shoot themselves in the back so often they can’t trust a mirror. Old rule.... the only way for two people to keep a secret is if one of them is dead.... Sort of like the telecom long ago.....:o)
Stay Safe !
“Explain in more detail while ISIS would use a nuke right away if they had it.”
The simple version:
The longer ISIS waits to use a nuke, the more likely it won’t work.
Batteries wear out.
Irradiated components degrade rapidly.
Radioactive components “wear out” on their own (half-life degradation).
Stupid people tend to break things.
And every major military in the region & world would be he11-bent on finding it and carpet-bombing the suspected location with extreme urgency.
And, rumor is, it’s really hard to hide one of these things (radiation-detecting satellites can basically see them all everywhere).
I am NOT wearing bunny slippers. They are little lamb slippers.