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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 546319" data-attributes="member: 1213">I think that the blast would have to be amazingly ananymous for that to work.  You would need to create a compelling reason for terrorists with the means and motive to use a nuclear weapon which would have no effect other than the destruction that it would cause.  It can't possibily further any cause or create fear of any group, because the cause/group is unknown.  This scenario is HIGHLY implausable.It would also require that this could be done without the US ever getting any idea as to who generally is responsable.  It is very unlikely that a terrorist group would produce a weapon without the help of a foreign government, and remember that after detonation the source of the nuclear materials can usually be determined.Whatever nation or nations helped would be bombed off the map.  That is almost a certainty.  These kind of worst-case plans are obviously calssified, but it would be unimaginable that they would not involve nuking back.There are interesting scenarios that can be woven around a situation where the culprits are the Islamic world, which stands together in some sort of grand allience (possibly after the fact), and the American left somehow (again implausably) uses charges of racism and crusading to prevent a retaliation that becomes necessarily collective.  That MIGHT produce a system that does not involve large-scale nuclear war and might even create a Cold War-like bipolar internaitonal order.Or, perhaps, in the grand tradition of many 911 conspiracy theorists ( <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ), one could say that India or Israel detonated the bomb and made it LOOK like it was the work of Islamists.Beyond that, unless you could think of a compelling reason for China or North Korea to do it, those see to be all the availible solutions.</blockquote>

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