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closeupready

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5. Of course it is, but most terrorists understand the concept of MAD, or even

Reply to brooklynboy49 (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:26 PM

Mar 2014

eye-for-an-eye - anyone involved in such a nightmare scenario would have to know that there would be retribution on at least a matching scale.

We all know that even that wouldn't deter some people, so this is why we all need to find ways to make nuclear ANYTHING illegit and prohibited.

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