Re: MAD (WAS Re: [californiadisasters] Electromagnetic Pulse: Effects on the U.S. Power Grid

I doubt he'd not retaliate against a nuke of any kind. Not in the real world.

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On Mar 20, 2011, at 18:55, Ernest Hayes <retiredsergeant@gmail.com> wrote:

> You forgot that O[bama] said that he would not retaliate, so its open season on us.
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Louis N. Molino, Sr. <lnmolino@aol.com>wrote:
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>> I don't know if MAD would apply. Say Libya had some nukes (multiple even
>> for arguments sake) they launch a few towards us and Israel again for the
>> scenario. Assuming we kept Israel on a short leash as we have with SCUDS and
>> the possible use of or threat of the use of BIO and or CHEM stuff in the
>> oh not so distant past.
>>
>> I see the rest of the planet turning their back on Libya real fast and that
>> carton showing where Libya use to be as being a cake of New Mexico Glass
>> being very real. Or in this case we now have a use for those Neutron Bombs
>> which were one of two good things to come from the Carter era.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
>> To: californiadisasters <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Sun, Mar 20, 2011 6:19 pm
>> Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Electromagnetic Pulse: Effects on the
>> U.S. Power Grid
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>> *M.A.D. would still apply in this scenario.... any nation launching an
>> E.M.P. attack upon the U.S. would A) Risk getting nuked right out of the
>> starting gates before their vehicles even launched their warheads as we saw
>> their launches from orbit and tracked their I.C.B.M.'s headed towards our
>> homeland as we could not know they were not actually armed with regular
>> nukes and B) Assuming we waited to counterstrike after we experienced the
>> effects of the E.M.P. attack we would reserve the right to treat the attack
>> as a regular nuclear attack and counterstrike with actual nukes aimed at
>> ground targets bearing in mind that our essential military assets have their
>> electronics hardened against E.M.P. effects leaving the civilian sector of
>> our civilization to suffer whatever E.M.P. effects the attack achieved.
>>
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>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:04 PM, James Nelson <jnelson_lifesaver@yahoo.com
>>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Granted, Forstchen's talks about a terrorism scenario with multiple
>>> nuke air bursts over different parts of the country (remember the 'missile
>>> launch' off of the west coast last fall?) but as Kim points out, it could be
>>> a natural cause like a large CME... It doesn't sound like the system would
>>> withstand any large hit.
>>>
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