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[davepoobond]

You mean the country that is 95% Shia muslims? Russia would be more believable than that.

congress cant tell the difference

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Would be great if they bought it and brought it back to their HQ and every one of them gathered to celebrate and the thing went off.

 

[Dennis]

Would be great if they bought it and brought it back to their HQ and every one of them gathered to celebrate and the thing went off.

brb gonna forward this idea to the CIA

 

[OrlanisWorks]

brb gonna forward this idea to the CIA

Operation Birthday Cake.

 

[GameAddict411]

Why would Pakistan sell them nukes? Lol

 

[FStubbs]

Even if it were a couple of corrupt officials, what would be the point? ISIS would turn around and nuke you while you're hiding out in France or Dubai or wherever you'd go to try to spend your millions.

 

[slit]

Yeah and where would they get the delivery system from?

They'll just blow their own territory up, of course I'm sure they would like that. Twisted fucks.

 

[Valnen]

Yeah and where would they get the delivery system from?

They'll just blow their own territory up, of course I'm sure they would like that. Twisted fucks.

That's what scares me. Even if they can't launch it, simply detonating it would have serious consequences for the world no matter where they do it.

 

[Joezie]

ITT: People don't think the US has considered this possibility and planned for it

According to military and intelligence sources, any answer to a Pakistani nuclear crisis would involve something along the following lines: If a single weapon or a small amount of nuclear material were to go missing, the response would be contained -- Abbottabad redux, although with a higher potential for U.S. casualties. The United States Joint Special Operations Command maintains rotating deployments of specially trained units in the region, most of them Navy SEALs and Army explosive-ordnance-disposal specialists, who are trained to deal with nuclear weapons that have fallen into the wrong hands. Their area of operation includes the former Soviet states, where there is a large amount of loose fissile material, and, of course, Pakistan. JSOC “has units and aircraft and parachutes on alert in the region for nuclear issues, and regularly inserts units and equipment for prep,” says a military official who was involved in supporting these technicians.

Seizing or remotely disabling a weapon of mass destruction is what’s known in military jargon as a “render-safe mission” -- and JSOC has evidently pulled off such missions before. In his memoir, Hugh Shelton, who chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, recalls an incident from the 1990s in which the CIA told the Special Operations Command that a ship had left North Korea with what Shelton describes as “an illegal weapon” on board. Where it was headed, the U.S. didn’t know. He wrote: “It was a very time-sensitive mission in which a specific SEAL Team Six component was called into action. While I cannot get into the tactical elements or operational details of this mission, what I can say is that our guys were able to ‘immobilize’ the weapon system in a special way without leaving any trace.”

 

[foxuzamaki]

So they're raving that they might be able to get maybe 1 nuke that they more than likely have no idea to use when other countries such as the U.S already has thousands of probably way more advanced nukes that are already tested and proven and can be just be sent with a push of a button?

 

[DaiHard]

I think it would be more likely that they get their hands on some radioactive waste and make a dirty bomb rather than a full on missile and delivery system

 

[Kieli]

nvm

 

[grandjedi6]

Meanwhile Pakistan is all like "Why da fuck would we sell that to you?"

 

[Majorzero]

I’m shocked on how many people think this is even a possibility. It seems like the obvious BS the came from the Iraq war hasn’t been a lesson on not falling for such crap.

 

[Jedi2016]

ITT: People don't think the US has considered this possibility and planned for it

Hehe.. "Render Safe" mission. i.e. "We think it's there." "Good. Carpet bomb it."

Realistically, that's probably what they'd end up doing.. destroying the weapon is a much better alternative than its detonation, regardless of location.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

Hopefully the UN would be able to wipe them from the planet.

The UN? They aren't even capable of picking up the pieces.

If there's one country they can get it from it's Pakistan, it's not without precedent

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Operation Birthday Cake.

"Is the device in position? All right. It's time to LIGHT THE CANDLE!"

ITT: People don't think the US has considered this possibility and planned for it

They would just send Sam Fisher

 

[linsivvi]

It's scary to see replies where people suggest nuking ISIS which wouldn't eliminating them at all but would kill millions of innocent people and would result in more people joining them.

 

[GameGuru59]

ITT: People don't think the US has considered this possibility and planned for it

Dat empire lol

While obviously there are limitations to our power, its amazing how easily the US is able to shape world events.

 

[Yagharek]

If they ever got one it would be a race between Israel and usa to strike first.

Plausibility suggests that Isis would probably want to hit Israel if they could, and on that front I would expect no hesitation from Israel if there was even a faint whiff of a chance that isis had some bomb.

Any nuclear scenario is terrifying.

 

[Jarrod38]