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2015-05-23 Terror Networks

Isis claims it could buy its first nuclear weapon from Pakistan within 12 months

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Posted by Fred 2015-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 knowing the Paks they would sell for the right price just like North Korea and Iran would do.

Posted by paul 2015-05-23 08:11|| 2015-05-23 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 The key concern is deliverability.

Can the thing be strapped to a missile or put into an aircraft and dropped?

Otherwise you are looking at a car bomb on a vast scale.

I believe the first nuke from Iran will find itself on a container ship just outside Long Beach or South Hampton or Bremen...and detonated outside the range of the radioactivity scanners.

A nuke, even one of those old technology fission types, produce enough power that you don't have to park it next to the target, parking it in the same zip code is good enough.

ISIS would buy a nuke for one reason and one reason only, and the answer to that is painted red, white and blue.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-05-23 11:49|| 2015-05-23 11:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe Pakistan will drop ship it.

Posted by KBK 2015-05-23 12:08|| 2015-05-23 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe our new freetrade agreement will let Obama sell ISIS a nuke.

Posted by Airandee 2015-05-23 12:21|| 2015-05-23 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The US should draw up a "top secret" list of nuclear retaliation targets for someone to leak to the press. Mecca should be included.

Posted by Apostate 2015-05-23 13:20|| 2015-05-23 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Disagree with Bill on this. A high-value target area to nuke, with Isis gains, has to be one of three places. This is purely from a logical standpoint that they can turn around and reach quickly. I wouldn't imagine ISIS would want to sit on a nuke to long and risk losing it to an airstrike.

1, somewhere in Kurdistan, this includes the Mosul Damn. Hard to protect it against a damn nuke. 2, Jordan, where causing mass chaos will open a clear path to Isreal and millions of Paleos waiting for war. US abandoned equipment would go a long way there. Third, Finish Assad. While corralled, he's still a thorn stuck in ISIS foot. Finishing him won't draw condemnation nearly as much(from Arabs), and give ample opportunity to demonstrate your power to recruits.

A distant fourth, might be Russia. I think there's still Chechen support willing to do it if given the damn nuke. I still remember Beslan.

Posted by Charles 2015-05-23 16:31|| 2015-05-23 16:31|| Front Page Top

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