THe strategy of using fear of a nuclear war to get your way. Imagine a threat made public, saying there's a nuke somewhere in the USA and will explode unless the US does this or that.
OK, I understand what nuclear blackmail means. What were we blackmailed out of? What did the bad guys win -- because they have nukes -- that they otherwise would not have won?
Imagine a threat made public, saying there's a nuke somewhere in the USA and will explode unless the US does this or that.Very frightening. I wonder what the US would do? Here's a little tidbit from a professor who created nuclear war models.
If you had only one bomb, where in the US would you drop it?
Answer: St. Louis, Missouri. It might contaminate the Missisippi/Missouri river system and harm the US breadbasket.
So the question is: Al Queda reports that there's a bomb somewhere in the US? What does the US do?
Al Queda