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Why do you think there is a U.S. and a U.K. Trident deployed near Iraq? It isn't as if Iraq could not be erased by a launch from 3000 miles away. I'm sure the warning has been given. This is playing for keeps. If smallpox is unleashed, millions dead. So this is not quite a big a deal as all out thermonuclear war between the West and the USSR, but it's within shouting distance.