Nuking the terrorists By Joseph Farah

When I proposed adopting a national deterrent policy against nuclear terrorism, I knew it would upset some people.

There are some understandable reasons:

(A) No one really wants to consider the distinct possibility – some would say probability – of a nuclear terrorist attack on America.

(B) Few in the American body politick today can conceive of any circumstance in which they would unleash the deadly force of nuclear weapons again.

(C) Many Americans think that a nuclear deterrent policy, one in which we let the enemy know what's coming in a worst-case scenario, is immoral because it sounds like anyone proposing it is calling for the deaths of millions.

(D) Most Americans have already forgotten Sept. 11, 2001, or, six years later, consider it a one-of-a-kind event that will never be repeated, certainly not on an even grander scale.

(E) Some people, perhaps superstitiously, believe talking about horrible possibilities and scenarios and planning for them make them more likely to happen.

Nevertheless, talk about them and plan for them we must.

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