Originally Posted by Mimesis

Iran is an extreme threat right now. They do have nuclear capabilities.

We can't drop an atomic bomb on a country like Iraq. The radiation would go into other countries and the rest of the world would hate us even more. There is only a few rebellion groups, therefore an extremely larger porportion of the casualities would be civilian.


also you have to think of todays atomic bomb... they are a gazillion more powerful than the hiroshima...and nagasaki.. were talking about enough power to throw earth off its axis.