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I just wonder what the economic fallout of 5 KT bombs going off in Manhattan and Washington would be.

That's not so far fetched any more: a lot of rich ragheads are working hard at getting the means, and MAD means nothing to them.

Or, "container bombs" 20X OKC going off in ports and in trains crossing key bridges (easy with GPS) all over America one fine day.

Or twenty smallpox carriers getting off twenty airplanes and getting multicultural.

ETC.

I just wonder how the economic dislocation might play out. MAD worked with the Russians; in the end they loved their kids more than they hated capitalism.

Not so with our Insane Death Cult adversaries.

That's not so far fetched any more: a lot of rich ragheads are working hard at getting the means, and MAD means nothing to them.

No one should think it's far-fethced after Sept 11 and knowing they tried to hit the Pentagon, Congress, and were trying to kill Bush. Where would we be if they had succeeded --and they came quite close.

That's not so far fetched any more

Not a single one of your hypothetical scenarios are "far fetched" anymore. There's probably another thousand scenarios right behind them, equally close fetched, and nobody should think the bad guys haven't thought of a lot of them...

a lot of rich ragheads are working hard at getting the means, and MAD means nothing to them.

Unfortunately, PC still means a lot to a huge bevy of influential people around here even after 9/11 should have wakened them from their own mad delusions, so real MAD hasn't occurred to them, either. Or, if it has, they've rejected it on their own sacred altar of tolerance.

After the next 9/11 (and there will be a next) we hopefully will see fit to shift gears to UAD (Unilaterally Assurred Destruction). But it won't happen until then. Like the Japs of two generations ago, these guys aren't giving up until they are buried deeply and permanently in their own bed of ashes. Reading their rights to them and getting them their own taxpayer-funded lawyers isn't going to solve the problem. Neither is confiscating knitting needles from grandmothers.

"I just wonder how the economic dislocation might play out. MAD worked with the Russians; in the end they loved their kids more than they hated capitalism. Not so with our Insane Death Cult adversaries."

Atomic bombs, plural, went off in Japan during WW2, yet the Yen remained in circulation.

As for our enemies, we are no longer under MAD but RAD, for Rest-Assured Destruction. It is no longer mutual.

Asymetrical attacks can certainly damage America, but they can NOT assure our destruction. In contrast, we already have the nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional weaponry to assure the destruction of all non-American life on this planet.

The death cults may get what they ask for, but it will merely be their own destruction and no one else's.

Perhaps someone should have told the death cults that asymetrical attacks are lousy at defense...

As for gold, it is accepted in fewer places than is oil or Dollars. I suppose it might make some sense to have a small amount for some unforseen contingency, but clearly having guns, ammo, Dollars, oil, and various modes of transportation are all more important than holding onto an ugly yellow mass of metal that is worth a third of what it sold for 20+ years ago in non-inflation-adjusted Dollars...