If/when we attack Iran (w/nukes) what are you gonna do?

[NightWatcher]

My family and friends say that I'd be wasting my time and efforts, but they accept that fact that when/if we nuke Iran (limited, tactical of course) I am relocating to the mall in DC. I'm sick of sitting here on my ass typing night after night and day after day. When/if we nuke Iran I will be that nutball that you hear behind the MSM anchors who is standing there outside the Whitehouse shouting into a bullhorn. I dont know what else to do, but I have to do something. I already have my camping gear packed and ready to go. I could leave the house in ten minutes when I get the word. I realize that I cannot save the world, but I'd have to do something.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Gather my kids and get ready to head for the hills

seriously, that is my first impulse.

[Kingshakabobo]

2. These nut-cases in charge make me want to dig a hole in my back yard...

.....I used to work in the concrete business so I'm pretty handy.

[tabasco]

3. I've already done it.

Got a cabin in the middle of nowhere.

[AndyTiedye]

4. Bush**ler Will Announce It From the Ashes of His Latest Reichstag Fire

and none of use will be able to do a damn thing about it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. you mean from his bunker?

aka shadow govt.

[hippiechick]

5. Party like it's 1999, cause the end won't be far behind ...

:scared: :(

[rucky]

7. We all meet in DC.

I won't live in fear.

[blues90]

8. I would imagine if this happens it will be too late

For many of us to do anything other than to wait to be vaporized . DC will be in a lockdown all safe within their bunkers and we will be out here with our asses in the breeze .

They continue to press Iran and this may soon become a reality . If one is lucky enough to live out near the woods or some form of land with water and resources then you have alot more chance than me .

[dave_p]

9. Protest

You're safe so long as you're not in the Middle East. Iran doesn't need to retaliate in the US, it has 200,000 hostages nearer home and can engineer some barely effectual counterstrikes against Israel as a first instalment. Nobody else will get involved militarily, they'll be too busy identifying the reconstruction pickings, and this time Halliburton won't be at the front of the queue.

keep on fightin', this is no time to lose your nerve. If they do it, these nuts will have screwed-up big-time. And the 200,000 are going to need someone to get them out more than ever.

[MN ChimpH8R]

10. Head for the liquor store,

stock up, and wait for the end to come.

I hate to say this, NightWatcher, but going to DC after such a series of events would get you nothing but a one way ticket to Gitmo. Martial law would be on the way immediately.

[Usrename]

11. The most subversive thing to do..

stop paying credit card bills.

Three months and they would be on their knees.

[Selatius]

12. My friend says I should follow his example: Flee to Germany. He can gain citizenship instantly.

The German government automatically grants citizenship to anyone who can prove their parents or grandparents were originally German citizens. If I follow his example, I'd probably head to France.

Or I can stay here while the shithouse burns down in the form of a wrecked economy and massive blowback from the conflict. It might be funner to stick around.

With the wrecked economy, I will likely be unemployed. If that's the case, would you mind if I hitched up to the Mall and hung out with you and countless thousands of others?

[City67]

13. A long time ago I worked on nukes

and we were kept abreast of nuclear combat strategy to a certain degree. We were just techs on missile sites but we still got monthly classified briefings on the state of the art. Granted that was many years ago but even today I cant see us initiating even a limited nuclear strike except in retaliation. And then I expect it would be after a second device detonation as a minimum. Most people dont realize how much safety is built into nuclear arms hardware and launch systems. Even the president couldnt initiate a first strike without overwhelming reason. No flimsy crap like the WMD's in Iraq would be even close to sufficient reason. The political fallout alone from using even tactical nukes would be enormous. I doubt even Bush would think he could get away with it.

[Posteritatis]

14. Second device?

You think there wouldn't be retaliation until the States (or an ally) got nuked twice? How come?

I'm not being incredulous here, just surprised. I would've thought a single hit would result in a pretty big retaliation, but then again I'm likely to be far, far more clueless about nuclear strategies than someone who worked with them is.

[City67]

15. If they had a video

Of a foreign national saying yes he had attacked us then maybe we would retaliate after a single detonation. Thats a real thin maybe though. If there was the slightest bit of doubt and I mean the tiniest bit, and I dont mean some knucklehead CIA guys slam dunk, then no there would be no nuclear counter strike. Obviously thats not to say we wouldnt retaliate with more conventional measures.

Nuclear combat has come to be considered almost a doomsday weapon by first world countries. During the cold war MAD (mutually assured destruction) was an effective deterrent. Today thats not the case today because the "enemies" that we would worry about detonating a device within our borders would most likely be a terrorisy group.

Maybe they would be supplied by Iran or North Korea. But even then it would likely be thru a number of intermediaries and we would have a damned hard time proving it. Russia's nuclear forces are a dangerous joke. We only fear them because they have literally tons of fissionable material missing since the fall of the Soviet Union. They cant even afford to effectively guard what they still have in active service.

I guess in short what I am saying is there are a lot of constraints on our political leaders in this area that most people do not realize.