I vote for global mutually assured destruction. No matter who the perpetrator might be.
If we go down — then we’ll make sure that EVERYBODY goes down — all over the planet.
Snake Plissken kinda faced this scenario in Escape from L.A.
Excellent idea, with the first 4 salvos of MIRVs reserved for Mecca, Brussels, Caracas, and Tehran...
Oh, and 2 more for Paris and Moscow.