[inquest]

It's very well within the realm of possibility that al-Qaeda wouldn't want to set off just one nuke, because they know what our response would be. They'd probably consider it far more desirable to set off as many as possible at once, so as to completely demoralize the population and take away the will to fight.

[RightWhale]

so as to completely demoralize the population and take away the will to fight.

Are they that stupid? Don't they have anyone who remembers when Japan [an actual country with an actual military] tried to demoralize the population and take away the country's will to fight? It's going to be a busy couple of hundred years, but other diseases have been virtually eradicated.