[dark_lord]

Ya'll are missing the truely cunning approach. Which is, assuming he has more than 1 working nuke, he:

1. Gets it smuggled into the US.
2. Calls up the White house and has a quiet discussion with the appropriate person, tells them where it is.
3. HEAT goes and finds it.
4. Yep, its a live nuke. Confiscate it.
5. Saddam calls back, asks - You find it yet?
6. Yes, he is told, found it.
7. Saddam says - more where that came from. They are dispersed. You invade, kill me, they get smuggled in and detonated. Now you know I have them. Leave me alone.

Bush team backs off, says lets go with weapons inspections. Because, by that strategy, Saddam shows that:
(a) He is sane enough not to preemptively strike when he has the chance.
(b) He deters any attack on him.
(c) By handling it real quiet he gives Bush a way to quietly back down.
(d) This plan would mean we don't get nuked unless we attack him first. So he uses MAD against us!

Scary, huh?

[mhking]

After this, Hussein would appear in the media and credibly claim that he has hidden several of these devices in secret locations in New York, Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles. He would also state that any attack on his country would lead to massive destruction of these cities, immediately.

Talk about emptying those cities out... You haven't seen an exodus like you would at that point.

[mhking]

The only spot in Nevada where he'd set anything off is Las Vegas. When he's ready, he's gonna light two or three or four at once, hoping beyond hope that we'd be too busy dealing with the ensuing mess and panic here to turn the entire nation of Iraq into glazed stain glass instantly.