On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 21:48 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 04:21:26PM -0400, John Young wrote:
http://warincontext.org/2013/03/25/mcchrystal-americas-drone-war-risks-provo... ing-another-attack-on-new-york-city/
Ex-General Stanley McChrystal:
And although to the United States, a drone strike seems to have very little risk and very little pain, at the receiving end, it feels like war. Americans have got to understand that. If we were to use our technological capabilities carelessly -- I don't think we do, but there's always the danger that you will -- then we should not be upset when someone responds with their equivalent, which is a suicide bomb in Central Park, because that's what they can respond with.
Their equivalent would be a 20 kT nuclear device in a Manhattan penthouse. If Theodore B. Taylor would be alive today, I think he would agree that today a thermonuclear device is no longer out of reach for small groups.
I can't remember where, but I saw a review paper claiming this was impossible because individuals with the intelligence to construct a nuclear device tend not to join terror groups. -- Sent from Ubuntu [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]