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Originally posted by SnookBooger
The "Cold War" is over and we got bored. Now we have the "War on Terrorism." We were trapped in a "Cold War Psychosis" and did not know what to do with ourselves. By the way, have you seen the MOAB (Mother of all Bombs)? Looks pretty spiffy to me...
Yeah the MoaB is essentially a nuke without nuclear payload from the way this article I read described it. The "Brass" is saying this weapon is primarily for "psychological warfare." In essence, the explosion so closely resembles a nuclear explosion (giant mushroom-like cloud rising high into the sky) that it is supposed to spread fear of nuclear attack or something like that and cause the enemy to throw down their weapons and run away.
My question is this: If in appearance this bomb closely resembles a nuclear explosion, wouldn't it stand to reason that the enemy would just be more pissed that they've been nuked and retaliate accordingly??? Even in Iraq who, in theory has no nukes, they still have biological/chemical weapons of mass destruction (based on reports to the UN by the U.S. and Britain) which would probably be the course of retaliation. And since they cannot actually launch on the U.S., who will suffer that wrath? Israel.... ?