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The strategic advantage of blowing up NYC harbour is getting bombed back in time before stone tools where a thing.

• ceejayoz 8y ago
  That's why you'd do it in this fashion. A nuke in a random container on a ship filled with thousands of them, owned by a bunch of shell companies, combined with the fact that the evidence gets blown up in the process... Quite a bit harder to track to a source than "hey look a rocket launched from Iran".
  • zaroth 8y ago
    An attack like that would also be carte blanche to nuke whoever the hell you wanted — that wasn’t themselves a nuclear power that could survive the volley — in retaliation.
  • jm4 8y ago
    Not really. It’s a fairly short list of organizations with the means and the motivation. If you’re already spying on them it’s not hard to pick up on changes in communication, movements or even catch them red handed on a recorded line.
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