Great post. Somebody should post the fantastic Times of London article which described the first Iraqi nuclear test, conducted in a shaft tunneled under a lake southwest of Baghdad in 1988.
I wonder what "time" it is now on the FAS Doomsday clock.
Great post. But, the way I think about this situation, especially with Iran and Pakistan in mind, having or been close to have nuclear weapons, is like comparing an army armed with muskets circa 1800, against an army armed with modern rapid fire Gattling guns.
We as a nation with our arsenal of weapons, can cover and destroy the world 10 times over, before those countries even realize what hit them.
Guess what, they know it very well and they are scared to death...one wrong move their part or somebody associated with them (bin Laden for instance), and their country will cease to exist as we know it. They just do not have the fire power, including the Chinese for that matter, to distroy United States. They might inflict some heavy wounds to us, granted, but their country will be evaporated.
They will allways remember what happend on August 6th 1945 at 0600 hour in Hiroshima. They might be fanatics, but my gut feeling tells me that they love their children too.