What Would The World Do If Terrorists Managed To Use Nukes Or A Dirty Bomb?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35947702

[Zacs-Master]

Interesting question. I suppose it would depend on who they targeted. An attack on the US with Trump in charge........goodnight Christmas for us all.

[douglas9401]

Build a wall? And make them pay for it.

[ivor4781]

nothing !, what can you do,unless all the western countries and most of the mid eastern countries gather to form an all out war on them,again,nothing!

[anotheoldgit]

Who would supply ISIS with such a weapon and why?

Reminiscent of 'weapons of mass destruction' to me.

[steg]

If they set off a bomb near me, I think I would be tempted to jump up into the air and throw bits of me in every direction

[mikey4444]

Panic I expect. It can only be a matter of time I suppose.

[Baldric]

///Who would supply ISIS with such a weapon and why?///

Just a thought, they might not supply it willingly

http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/17/isis-dirty-bomb-fears-after-theft-of-highly-dangerous-radioactive-material-5702120/

[retrocop]

Looks like 40kg of the muck has gone West from Iraq and Theresa May reckons a dirty bomb threat is real.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2854729/Islamic-State-dirty-bomb-says-British-jihadi-amid-claims-40kg-uranium-taken-Iraqi-university.html

[Xeronema]

Steg: A quote by Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder Goes Forth - out in No Mans land whilst George is trying to paint a picture and asks what the little mushroomy things are on the map.

.... mine field... 'I don't remember having any fields, Sir. Are you use they're your and not mind. The quotes are way off, however you've just inspired me to watch some Blackadder.

TTT and others; sorry for going off topic. Take care everyone.

[retrocop]

Cameron and Obama apparently played a doomsday war game scenario only yesterday with regard to a dirty bomb attack.
The supposed delivery platform used by Daesh were drones and the material was stolen from 'a medical establishment'

[Xeronema]

The spelling and grammar is shocking as well (mine (pun intended). If anyone seems Ummmm, could you let her know I asked about her? I could do with having a catch up chat with her. Night all.

[Baldric]

Wouldn't help a great deal if it had been stolen though, would it fender?

[Old_Geezer]

They would use existing techniques to try to discover who it was, and most likely wipe them off the face of the Earth. In the meantime the services would be busy trying to clear up and care for survivors. It would concentrate the minds of all world States to cooperate.

[Huderon]

Retaliation in kind is unlikely. Terrorist groups, by their nature, tend to be amorphous, operating from within the cover of civilian populations with no single base of operations. The political fallout (pun intended) from killing large numbers of civilians by retaliating in kind would be unacceptable.

[Hypognosis]

@ToraToraTora

Nukes have a kind of "minimum size", due to the required critical mass and all the mechanism required to make it go off. The Trinity test device and the Hiroshima/Nagasaki devices are about as small as it gets. So a vehicle capable of shifting a 6ft sphere, weighing a ton or two, would be the minimum. No drone can lift that much, yet and any truck has to make its way here without setting off detectors.

Hence the emphasis on a dirty bomb. The question, there, is "do they want to wait 25,000 years to be able to claim any landholdings in the target zone or not?"

If they wipe out all the prime farmland in Europe and then climate change turns the levant into an extension of the Sahara, what the heck are they going to eat?

More to the point, where is their food coming from, right now? Who, in their right mind is still farming in Syria and Iraq?

Footnote:
Given the magnitude of foreign investment in London real estate, several nations will come down on them like a ton of bricks if extremists tried anything there. Although the Saudis seem to have left their mansions to go derelict and probably go to Dubai to do their shopping, rather than Harrod's.

[stuey]

Why bother devastatingly destroying everything? Just place a gallon or two of the latest most powerful toxin into all the major reservoirs; sit back for a while; and walk in, obviously with a huge supply of Perrier water, and take over whatever allah decrees that you must.

[tamborine]

Iran (Shia) has nuke enabled, albeit subject to US sanctions. ISIS (sunni) hate Shia & have Iran top of their hate list, vice versa. I think we are safe so long as we favour Iran.


G'forbid shia & sunni unite :(

[ToraToraTora]

good points hypo but your major error is gifting these people with rational thought. They would see it as striking the infidel above all else. If they could build and deliver such a device, it would probably be Israel they'd use it on and them Israel and the US would turn the middle east into a sheet of glass. They know that but they'd still do it. That's why they lob a penny banger over the wall and get their town flattened regularly. They know it will happen but they have no rational thought processes.