[HitmanLV]

Think anything you want. None of the nations you mentioned would go nuclear in response to a limited nuclear attack from terrorists. Who would they attack? You can't bomb a city of innocent people for what a terror group that numbers in the 1,000s does.

I question your perception - I can't see how you would think that any of those civilized nations would bahave that way. It's a violent, posturing fantasy.

[ought-six]

"I question your perception - I can't see how you would think that any of those civilized nations would behave that way. It's a violent, posturing fantasy."

We'll see, won't we? Because it will happen. The Islamists, once they get hold of a nuke, will use it. And, as for civilized nations behaving badly, who would have thought Germany would have gone the route it did in the 1930s and 1940s? Who would have thought the Soviet Union would have happily slaughtered some 30,000,00 of its own people? And China? The "Cultural Revolution" accounted for some 50,000,000 million Chinese dead, at least, all killed by their own government, not so very long ago. Don't tell me about "civilized" nations; their track record is abyssmal.