I wish I believed this. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone in our government or military with the ability to make that kind of decision has the gumption to actually do it. If they did, vast sections of Afghanistan and Iraq would now be irradiated volcanic glass...
My initial post states that in the event of a Islamic terrorist nuclear attack on U.S. territory we would retaliate by turning Mecca into a radioactive glob of glass. To this point in the war on terrorism there has been no need to retaliate to that extreme ...