[riri]

I hope behind the scenes we are letting it be known that we have some pretty horrible weapons ourselves and will not hesitate to use them if we even suspect something like this is even considered. Stuff that would make them wish we had nuked them instead.

[gjenkins]

We would never use them first, and they don't think like us. They think it can be won, and they think that we don't have the heart for it (by virtue of ideals and principles). If the conditions were right, I think they could destroy us and we would forego retaliation for fear of sealing the fate of the entire world. If they hit us with biologicals today, we would require knowledge of who did it before retaliation.