Reply #9: 90 plus percent of Americans would believe anything the gov't told them [View All]

[kenny blankenship]

about the origin of the bomb, and that's despite having learned to distrust Bush. There would be overwhelming public support (to say the least) for massive nuclear retaliation against the named party, whoever that might be.

When Chirac recently stated that a large scale terrorist attack against the territory of France would be answered with nuclear weapons if it were traced back to the hand of some other state, he was just expressing the obvious and inevitable policy of any country confronted by an attack on its territory by another. If the attack turns out to be the definite work of another state, it is an act of war. War against a nuclear-armed power has a well known and predictable consequence. An atomic attack on the United States would surely mean that millions of people in some country beyond our shores are about to be vaporized, and their country annihilated, no matter what party or person holds power here.