Insane Metal
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Rest of the article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-from-pakistan-within-12-months-10270525.html
Welp.
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Isis claims it could buy its first nuclear weapon from Pakistan within a year
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Rest of the article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-from-pakistan-within-12-months-10270525.html
Welp.
schlongdog
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Do it. Purchasing wouldn't give them the ability to launch, and would justify the US on striking them down.
The clock ticks on, for if and when ISIS acquires nuclear weapons, they will have little reservations utilizing it.
I doubt the time-table they have set, but I would not scoff at the possibility.
Although whether they have the necessary people to properly operate one is a separate manner entirely.
I doubt the time-table they have set, but I would not scoff at the possibility.
Although whether they have the necessary people to properly operate one is a separate manner entirely.
Succinct Verbosity
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Pretty much, by that point it's no more messing around; they'd go all in with the military.
Ooccoo
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What do you nuke though? Syria? Iraq? Don't be a fool, this isn't an option until ISIS actually does it.
Of course you are ISIS, of course you are.
No one is dumb enough to sell them a nuke, anyone who did would be invaded by NATO and the rest of the world within a fortnight, and even if someone were ISIS is more likely to accidentally blow themselves up than anything else.
Obliterator
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If the US actually saw this or will see this as even a remote possibility it will be full scale annihilation before theres even a chance.
StalkerUKCG
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I don't see it getting that far. I could see a full scale incursion in to occupied territory to wipe them from the face of the planet before they get to buy a nuke.
Unknown Soldier
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If anybody actually thought ISIS was trying to get a nuclear weapon, ISIS would not exist right now. On that particular point I'm pretty sure the US, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel and everyone else would be in consensus.
Nuke where exactly?
Obliterator
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Pretty much. Any country that even thought about selling them a nuke would be bombed into obliteration as well
LostMyNarbles
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Very scary to think about because they'll definitely use one if they have it.
The USA and other countries can't nuke them without causing colatetal damage since ISIS is so spread out.
The USA and other countries can't nuke them without causing colatetal damage since ISIS is so spread out.
Vicetrailia
Banned
Hopefully the UN would be able to wipe them from the planet.
Kiever Sher
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They probably know they couldn't launch it, they just want it. It's like me with Rosetta Stone, I'll never use it but it's nice to have.
Heh, nice analogy. Pretty spot on though.
ISIS obtaining a nuke would be just reason (like we don't already have one, or a thousand) to wipe them out too.
Saucycarpdog
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I doubt they will ever get a nuclear weapon but it could be possible for them to get some chemical or even biological weapons with all the cash and resources they have.
We're talking about the same country that sheltered bin Laden for half a decade. There are clearly powerful enough interests in Pakistan that could give two shits about NATO and the rest of the world.
Yeah. Selling Nukes to a group that openly plans to kill an enslave all non-muslims (or at least all people not part of the Abrahamic religions) if given the chance seems like a good way to get China, India, Russia AND the west to turn on you.
There's a gigantic difference between sheltering a terrorist figurehead and selling nukes to a group that has a decent chance of using them.
schlongdog
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They definitely won't. Having nukes and having the ability to launch them are two very different things. Look at North Korea, clearly have them, but still rely on CGI to try and convince the West they have the ability to launch them.
It's not like it would be an official sale by the state or something. Corrupt official with access becomes a million/billionaire and disappears.
I don't know where they would want to use it, but it's not like detonating it somewhere terrible is out of the question minus a launch platform.
More Fun To Compute
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Why would they need nuclear weapons to create long form narrative poems? I don't understand these idiots they really make next to no sense.
Housing bin Laden doesn't get you glassed.
Obliterator
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The entire world would be against them obtaining Nukes. Bin Laden did not have a nuclear weapon.
The US, Russia, China, Israel, India, etc. everyone with nuclear capability would be against it.
If Pakistan was crazy enough to sell them one it would be fucked
so many possible nuke areas
if only I had a map with a large red circle on it to show you
ISIS probably has one of their own, with big red circles all over the place
what we truly need is a space laser
triplestation
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Uh, that's a scary thought
If these guys are able to recruit people smart enough but crazy enough to deal with wmd business they could fuck shit up big time
If these guys are able to recruit people smart enough but crazy enough to deal with wmd business they could fuck shit up big time
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
I have the official US counter offensive in the case ISIS obtains a nuclear weapon.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
This doc was pretty alarmist, but interesting.
I'm not saying the entire Pakistani government is offically sanctioning the sale of a nuke to ISIS, just as the entire government wasn't concealing Bin Laden's whereabouts. But there are a handful of people there with the influence to pull off the latter, why is it impossible that there'd be similarly a handful to do the former too?
There's a huge difference between hiding a guy, even Bin Laden, and selling ISIS a nuke. If they went and did it every nuclear power in the world would flip their shit and come down hard on them, the whole point of getting nukes isn't to use them but so that no one will use them on you. Having a country selling them to the highest bidder would destroy any semblance of balance we've managed to create and start a huge panic. Pakistan would have to be run by suicidal nutjobs to even consider this a good thing.
Because hiding Bin Laden doesn't cause the entire world to want to wipe you off the map out of fear.
Obliterator
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Im willing to bet any movement of a nuclear device in the area would be known by the US almost instantly.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Anything is within the realm of possibility if you wanna stretch it that far.
Nah, huge infrastructures and tons of people watch over them. Not likely for anyone just to sneak one out.
Blackage
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Fairly sure Israel would pull the trigger before the US if they truly felt threatened.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
And reason #127 for why the leaders of the Western world are a bunch of spineless cowards and hypocrites for not doing anything about them.
Insane Metal
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Well I wouldn't give them any chances, lol. Burn them from the face of the Earth just in case.
And they're probably stupid enough to use it. And the entire world will go from condemning their actions via strongly-worded letter to full-on military mobilization... the gloves would come off, for everyone, and they'd be utterly obliterated before they could finish their victory dance.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
they should have said Iran, would have made people go batshit insane
And then they'd all go after the guys that sold it to them.
You mean the country that is 95% Shia muslims? Russia would be more believable than that.
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