[aegiscg47]

I used to think that as well, but after reading some actual studies on EMP recently I think they would need several hundred nukes to get the effect that is presented in fiction, movies, doomsday scenarios, etc. My opinion (and it's just an opinion) is that the EMP threat has been blown way out of proportion for whatever reason, more than likely funding to harden things, countermeasures, etc., but one, two, or three nukes will do a few weeks damage to localized areas, but not much else. In return they would be obliterated from the face of the earth.

[Black Agnes]

I really doubt obama would seriously retaliate. What he would do is install martial law that would be difficult to ever get rid of.

The ultimate Reichstag fire.

[Oatka]

In return they would be obliterated from the face of the earth.

We might be up against this kind of mentality: "We are willing to have our nation glow in the dark for the next thousand years for the glory of Allah - are you willing to have (fill in ANY U.S. city) do the same for your Christ?"