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I support the general principle of using nukes in our defense but I wonder about the military practicality of it. Do we have bunker buster nukes? Maybe our conventional bunker busters are more effective than a nuke that's not designed for this purpose. Another example would be the taliban forces north of Kabul. We want to take them out, but not the northern alliance. A nuke couldn't be used in this case. One military use we could use nukes for could be to carpet bomb the entire mountain range in northeast Afghanistan with nukes. This would effectively end the use of those mountains as hideouts. In terms of practical military use, nukes aren't well designed for the objectives we want to achieve.

ACTUALLY, you are quite incorrect. The nukes we have in inventory were designed to penetrate and destroy Soviet missle silos and command/control centers that were 100 ft. deep. They would be ideal for destroying mountain complexes as the fallout would pretty much be limited to those mountain ranges and valleys where the detonation occcurs.

"Do we have bunker buster nukes?"

They are under development, waiting resumption of underground testing..see article in 11/01 issue of Popular Mechanics...also see the V12 concept Caddy, 750 hp...this punk pulls up next to you in his SVT pickup...hehehe