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The Soviets and their stupid, short-sighted allies, should be informed of a new US policy: if any nuclear weapon lands in US territory, and the delivery system, or guidance system, or other critical piece of high-tech was provided by a third party, that third party receives the same retaliation we reserve for the suicidal nation that attacks us in the first place. MADD with linkage.

SO, if such a thing happened we should launch against Russia, right? Well, you should remember that although a good part of the Russian military machine has atrophied they have not let rust and rot touch their missile forces. They pour billions into those each and every year. Within 30 minutes Armageddon would reign.

A question: PAkistan has several F-16s (the few that managed to get to it before Viper sales were stopped and we withheld the planes they had already paid for). Anyways, Pakistan has several F-16s, and a number have been tweaked to allow them to carry a nuke (specifically the F-16As of Nos 9 and 11 Squadrons at Sargodha have allegedly been modified to carry and deliver a Pakistani airborne nuke in a strike against India). Ok, you know the Pakistanis are crazy. Let's say they attack India, and even though most of those Falcons wouldn't even reach the Indian border without getting shot down by the Indians, let's say one manages to drop its 'egg' on its intended target (or for that matter any target within India's border). Do you think it would be appropriate for India to fume against the US for selling the Pakistanis the F-16s, and to try their best to sneak an Indian nuke into an American city?

In the real world there is a lot of weapons leakage. MOst of the stuff in the world today is Chinese in origin, and before the Chinese copied it most of it came from the then Soviet Union. Thus i can see where you are finding your link from. But just remember that if we nuke a Russian city because Al Queda nuked an American city (most probably using Pakistani nuclear material since Pakistan is the number one place to get such stuff, and Pakistan's nuclear program was basically given to them by China, and decades back it was the Soviets/Russians who helped China develop a working nuclear program, thus, using your logic, putting the 'blame' on Russia). So, if we nuke a Russian city, do you think the Russians will just sit there and say its ok over a bottle of Stoli? Or do you think they will launch at us, and we will launch at them, and the only victor will be China since it will be rid of both Russia and the US.

You can be assured of this. IF an attack ever occured on US soil using WMDs and from a terrorist nation (God forbid), that one of the first things to occur would be communication between the Kremlin and Washington to ensure that there was adequate communication between the two so as to avoid 'misunderstandings.' What is for certain is that Trident SLBMs from our Boomers wouldn't be flying towards Moscow because some nutcase wearing a rag on his head and sitting in some cave was stupid enough to mess with Uncle Sam.