I am of the mind to use them. Anybody have any thoughts on the matter? Pro or Con? What do people think about the fallout, both physical and political?
I guess that my position is that in a war, winning is the thing. I don't have a problem nuking the enemy. Matter of fact, I think that should be the first resort, not the last. Why waste American lives if we don't have to?
I wonder where people get the idea that our tactical nukes are so radiological. The only radiation emitted is during the initial blast - gamma rays that dissipate almost immediately. These weapons were designed that way so that our troops could occupy the terrain almost immediately after impact. Our nuclear weapons are not area denial weapons or area destruction weapons - they are point destruction weapons. In other words, they are used against specific targets. And they are not dirty - they just make a bigger boom than conventional weapons.
Thermo baric weapons kill, but they also destroy by causing over pressurization at the point of impact or above the point of impact. Over pressurization collapses buildings, bridges, etc. Used properly they can cause double destruction - where the over pressurization causes destruction, and then the sudden depressurization caused by the burning of the atmosphere around the point of impact creates a vacuum sucking debris back into the point of impact.
And lastly, and I have said this before - it is our stated national policy that if WMDs are used against us, we will retaliate in kind. Since we have renounced the use of chemical and biological weapons, we can only respond with nuclear weapons. In a tit-for-tat scenario, our nukes would be used against troop concentrations and logistical facilities.