Originally Posted by
rickair7777
At the time, they probably would have used the bomb to prevent even very minimal further loss of life and treasure, perfectly understandable after all they had been through.
No, 'they' would not have used nukes for minimal loss of life or treasure.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The scale of 9/11 was in the ballpark for justification, if somebody actually wanted to go there and you could identify a culprit to target.
Not even close if it involved nuking general population.