----- Original Message -----
From: "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: Retaliation RE: Attack
> There is of course one little detail that is standing in the way of a
> nuclear attack: the promise from the US that they will never be the first
to
> launch a nuclear weapon. But then, I do not doubt that the US will break
> that promise if it suits their needs.
>
If it made that promise, it did it since the fall of the USSR. The only way
that the US was able to protect the Neatherlands was that it told the USSR
that an attack on the Netherlands was the same as an attack on the US, and
that we would use every weapon at our disposal to defend your country.
Bottom line, the US put New York, Chicago, Washington, LA, etc. on the line
to defend your country. IIRC, I heard that the chances of a conventional
defense suceeding was often no better than 50-50.
Dan M.
