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Surely that will be considered when employing these weapons in a war.

• bcoates 9y ago
  The "right altitude" maximizes damage and mostly reduces fallout as a side-effect, so yeah
• kazagistar 9y ago
  Surely the "when" was meant to be an "if"? Is the default assumption that this level of violence will happen again? The presence of that mindset is what allows escalation, rather then it being considered at most a crazy edge case scenario. My coworkers were discussing what would happen if California voted to declare independence from the United States. The hypothetical scenario instantly moved to "occupation by US Military forces", which hadn't even come up in my mind. Its not like the EU states moved to occupy Britain or anything. It seems like the obvious solution is to try to sit down, think about it, debate it, and work out the problems of the involved parties. Why turn directly to violence?
  • marcoperaza 9y ago
    >The hypothetical scenario instantly moved to "occupation by US Military forces", which hadn't even come up in my mind. Its not like the EU states moved to occupy Britain or anything. We had a war about this. US states are not allowed to secede. The Union is perpetual.
    • marcoperaza 9y ago
      And in contrast, the EU explicitly allows exit. So it’s not a very good comparison.
    • isostatic 9y ago
      So was the Roman Empire.