On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:58 AM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:46:31
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Hi,
[snip]
On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:03:46
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Hi,
[snip]
It eliminates the need for occupation.
What does this mean?
It means if you wipe out the population you don't need to occupy the
country with massive amounts of troops.
If you drop enough nukes to wipe out the country you have committed
genocide and
the land itself is useless as well because it is uninhabitable for
thousands of
years.
And your point regarding occupation is?
(This already happened once before - see Ur). Furthermore, the jet
stream
will carry the fallout around the planet, and millions of your own
population
will also die of radiation poisoning and cancer. Perhaps needless
to say, the
perpetrators could well be among them.
This is possibly not necessarily true. It is only necessarily true
for lots of massive air blast weapons. Growing up I lived for years
in the path of fallout from nuclear testing. Sure, lots of people
probably have died from cancer from the tests, but the world goes
on. Few think of it today.
The infrastructure of a country the size of Iran can probably be
knocked out using a few 20 megaton bombs and lots of underground
burst weapons followed up with periodic neutron bombs and
conventional weapons.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
