The Terror Ahead A nuclear attack? Be very afraid.

Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 21, 2003 | GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

[TADSLOS]

North Korea will eventually employ a nuclear weapon against U.S. Forces in South Korea. It will be their doom, of course, but they will still do it based on the paranoia and arrogance of their regime.

[2timothy3.16]

Hope and pray you're wrong, there are young men serving in S. Korea that were scouts with my boys.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[The Mayor]

Bump

[Jack Black]

Dirt is your friend. Download some material on bomb shelters. Time to dig.

[Rutles4Ever]

I think they will at least threaten to through back channels. There is a blackmail card to be played here before a detonation takes place.

Europe is clearly concerned about Iran -- moreso than Iraq. This is odd, since the player with his cards on the table (Iran), is conventionally less of a threat than the one that had the ace up its sleeve (Iraq). Yet, both need to be dealt with for the sake of European security.

We are still at the nascent stages of World War III. This will get much messier, I assure you. There will be extremely difficult decisions made and there will be more regimes marked for extinction. As Americans, we need to be prepared for devastation at home, only in the respect that 1)we're a target, and 2)the law of averages dictates that someone, somewhere, will succeed in bringing a WMD to our under-protected shores.

[boxerblues]

bttt for later

[Snidely Whiplash]

I don't know whether to be impressed or not...though the subject material is interesting, this has to be the longest article I've seen on FR in a long time. It's 6740 words, or 23 pages of 12-point, double-spaced type. It's almost like this guy is paid by the word or something. He desperately needs an editor.

Snidely

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Playing Poker with Korea

Woulda, shoulda, coulda.

The next Korean War will be over before America can scrape up any reinforcements for 2ID. Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq have our land power tied down. I hope 2ID moves south before the kimche hits the fan.

[MissAmericanPie]

The Israelies, God bless them, ended Saddams nuclear ambitions with one bombing run. They endured the typical howling from the U.N. but they saved our bacon and theirs.

We should engage in the same in Iran and N. Korea while denying everything.=o)

[djf]

It makes far more sense for us to try to control the spread of the fissile materials, rather than the high tech stuff we use in our bombs. There are simple designs for bombs that don't need alot of high speed switches, etc.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The Wild Card is still Pakistan. If the raging nutballs of Mad Mo take control woooboy.

[dawn53]

I read it, but I was a little put off by this statement near the beginning of the article:

Nuclear weapons have been used in anger only twice: first at Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and then three days later, when the Japanese still refused to capitulate, at Nagasaki

So the reason we bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshim was because we were ANGRY????? What does that mean?

[conservativecorner]

Complex issues tend to need more words to fully express the author's thoughts and points. Nuclear proliferation is as complex as they come.

[RoughDobermann]

So the reason we bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshim was because we were ANGRY????? What does that mean?

It's just an expression.

[r9etb]

The Air Force's "daisy cutter" weighs in at 15,000 pounds and can dig a much deeper and wider area of destruction.

Daisy cutters don't dig big holes.

[snopercod]

What does that mean?

A temper tantrum. You know, like when the voters threw Davis out in California. (Dan Rather speak.)

[Blueflag]

Daisy cutters explode above ground so the blast effect will clear an LZ.

No name/type of air to ground munition is more mis-represented than a daisy cutter

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The article needs
1)a good edit, and
2)improved research.

South Africa was a nuclear power by 1964 and is often credited with selling its expertise to Israel.