On The Third Hand

Citizen Smash’s When Counter-Proliferation Fails and Froggy’s response, Pondering the Nightmare

It’s an old conversation and I don’t think a nuclear attack is inevitable; however, I do think it is possible and certainly something we should think about.

For an earlier conversation, which also includes chemical and biological attacks, see this post by Wretchard at Belmont club, the thoughts on that post by Steven Den Beste, and Wretchard’s response to Den Beste.

My thoughts on the subject are closest to Den Beste’s post, including his comment on the danger of biological warfare (though I consider it the least likely WMD to be successfully used by terrorists). I consider the current administration’s policy to be our best chance of avoiding such attacks, thus our best chance of avoiding ever having to use nuclear weaponry again. In many ways, I fear our response to a serious attack more than the attack itself.