Trump might. Hopefully there are cooler minds with the ability to stop him.

The US is pretty much distanced from the rest of the world, but if Russia was nuked by them, and responded, they would both render large parts of each country uninhabitable, with hundreds of thousands of burnt, injured or dying from radiation, let alone the deaths. Radioactive pollution would like ly drift to other countries as well, causing further deaths.

When would it end? Likely only in escalation. If Russia felt it was losing, it would likely use it's so called "Doomsday device" Cobalt Bomb. That would likely be the end of all of us. Not just the US.

Of course, if the US used a nuke first elsewhere, then it might create a "get in first" mentality with any future adversary that also possessed them. if there was anyone left to have a future conflict.

I always thought some nutcase like Kim Jong Un might be the first likely to launch a nuclear bomb in modern times. Never for a minute did I think it could possibly be some nutter in the White House.

Even for a country like Iran. Let's say Trump decides to bomb them. What? A single bomb on somewhere like Pickaxe mountain where he suspects they have their enriched material? What if it strengthens their resolve even more, and they still keep the Strait closed? Destroy or irradiate the oil / gas fields? I don't think so.

Nuke Tehran and kill millions? Apart from likely becoming a pariah, the US would likely face the threat of retaliation from many parts of the Moslem world. Their military bases, staff, embassies etc. would become targets. Trump himself would forever be moving around in food carts every time he travelled abroad. That's without the possibility of dragging Iran's bigger allies into taking some form of action.

No thanks. Let's just keep the implied threat of mutually assured destruction just that. A threat.

Second response - nuke Iran; but where will the nuclear fallout travel to? Most US allies in the Middle East, including Israel?

First - nuke US enemies; does the Trump's USA have any allies, apart from Israel and Russia, and now it seems North Korea?

10 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Trump might. Hopefully there are cooler minds with the ability to stop him.

The US is pretty much distanced from the rest of the world, but if Russia was nuked by them, and responded, they would both render large parts of each country uninhabitable, with hundreds of thousands of burnt, injured or dying from radiation, let alone the deaths. Radioactive pollution would like ly drift to other countries as well, causing further deaths.

When would it end? Likely only in escalation. If Russia felt it was losing, it would likely use it's so called "Doomsday device" Cobalt Bomb. That would likely be the end of all of us. Not just the US.

Of course, if the US used a nuke first elsewhere, then it might create a "get in first" mentality with any future adversary that also possessed them. if there was anyone left to have a future conflict.

I always thought some nutcase like Kim Jong Un might be the first likely to launch a nuclear bomb in modern times. Never for a minute did I think it could possibly be some nutter in the White House.

Even for a country like Iran. Let's say Trump decides to bomb them. What? A single bomb on somewhere like Pickaxe mountain where he suspects they have their enriched material? What if it strengthens their resolve even more, and they still keep the Strait closed? Destroy or irradiate the oil / gas fields? I don't think so.

Nuke Tehran and kill millions? Apart from likely becoming a pariah, the US would likely face the threat of retaliation from many parts of the Moslem world. Their military bases, staff, embassies etc. would become targets. Trump himself would forever be moving around in food carts every time he travelled abroad. That's without the possibility of dragging Iran's bigger allies into taking some form of action.

No thanks. Let's just keep the implied threat of mutually assured destruction just that. A threat.

IMO if Trump gave the order to use a nuke-anywhere- as a first strike, the military should arrest him as unfit for office. Otherwise, they would become war criminals themselves.

Nuremberg set the bar for unlawful orders.

The OP does not specify which nukes.

Low yield nukes ? Neutron bombs ? YES , they should be used.

High altitude (EMP) nukes , yes.

Other tacticals that they supposed to have , maybe.

Just keep the big ones (H- bombs) as deterents.

No need to kill millions at once to make a point.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

IMO if Trump gave the order to use a nuke-anywhere- as a first strike, the military should arrest him as unfit for office. Otherwise, they would become war criminals themselves.

Nuremberg set the bar for unlawful orders.

Why wait until then? His unprovoked attacks on Iran are, IMO a clear indication that the man is totally unfit for office and should be removed NOW!

The problem with that is, look who's waiting in the wings!

Do you think the US should use their nuclear bombs?                                   

 

A famous quote comes to mind  "  Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

  Are you recommending  USA should accidentally or deliberately bomb the prisons  or cemeteries  in Iran that hold women who were Killed ,beaten or  jailed for showing too much hair. ? Their children?  Their  elderly  relatives ? Their hospitals and schools ?

Or  the 3 to 4 million non Iranian  tourists , immigrants and refugees now living there from neighboring countries.?

Or  the 60 plus foreign embassies along with their  staff and families

while  possibly destroying  some of the most culturally important historic treasures  in the world ?  (as  I.S.I.S hopes to).

All as some sort of pissing contest  over who is  the most powerful country in the world ?

The question has to be a joke  or a wind up .

Have we really come to  the point of condoning something like this as being a viable solution to a conflict?

("Adolf Hitler ordered the complete destruction of Warsaw, Poland, systematically razing it to the ground to wipe it off the map following the Warsaw Uprising of 1944"

Where is he now?

A warning from Pandora:

."Be careful what you ask for "

On paper , Russia  is listed as having  MORE nukes than the USA........they have been doing their best to justify why they should be able to use them in the Ukraine war.

Go ahead , lets see what happens when we nuke their Embassy in Iran.

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Russia: ~                5,580 total warheads 

United States: ~5,042 total warheads 

We've crossed this "what if" path before when I was a kid in 1962......228 miles from Russian missiles docked in Cuba.

If  Nikita Khrushchev hadn't backed down and moved them out of Cuba ,  I seriously doubt  the world would be the same as it is today.    

"During the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. military launched the largest mobilization in Florida's history, deploying over 100,000 troops, HAWK anti-aircraft missile batteries to public beaches, and tactical aircraft to bases like MacDill Air Force Base "...........

10 hours ago, Tug said:

I’m just a regular person you are the one that try’s to be the tough guy lol 😂 anyway if I was unfortunate enough to be close enough to see him walk/waddle by I’d most likely vomit on account of the stench and revulsion…….cjinchiangrai true we don’t need any dirty bombs we have his diapers.

Oh look another poop fantasy. That's two in one topic. When are you going to get to his penis? You Trump poop obsessives sure can't wipe away the stench in your brains

Only on Seattle, Portland, NYC and Canada. Communism needs wiping out.