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Um, it seems to me you'd direct your submarine close to the coast of a city and your missile launch would not need ICBMs.

In fact, I am worried about TacNukes - like the kind we see in James Bond movies - being smuggled INTO A CITY!

https://www.wired.com/2002/11/nukes-2/

Here is an article about loose nukes.

North Korea has ALREADY given Syria nuclear material to build a functioning nuclear weapons facility. Google "operation orchard".

I am worried that, as soon as we attack its regime, some sleeper group would use nukes somewhere.

And what do we do in general with rogue nukes? How exactly are they accounted for across every country?

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It has been speculated Pakistan is already playing with tactical nukes and using unmarked vehicles to move them around the country, because they fear the USA will disarm them ala the bin Ladin raid on a larger scale. They already do not move nuclear materials in armed convoys because that would make them stand out and a target for anyone in a pretty divided country so they use unmarked vehicles. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/12/the-all...

You should not be nuked because those are real questions. I think we have organizations (not legal) which kill anybody attempting the variations of what you describe.

We sleep soundly because there exist men willing to do inhuman things to ensure our security. It's unpleasant until compared to the other options. That's what genuine heroism is like. When Putin is praising that organization he is thinking of something like this. We live very sheltered lives I think.

You're probably down voted because actual discussion would lead to the Samson Option.

Probably a large portion of the forum thinks the subject is itself immoral. That option isn't specifically anti-semitic even if it gets those undertones, we should expect every nuclear capable state has come up with items of that sort and more like destroying an innocent non-nuclear state to demonstrate convincing evidence for convictions.

What's the Samson Option?

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