ruveyn wrote:
Roman wrote:
http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/2010/03/israeli-historian-israel-could-find-itself-forced-to-wipe-out-europe/
Israel does not have enough nukes.
They have more than one, which is all that's needed to crash the global economy, let alone Europe; but that's midterm. They do have enough to hit the major European capitals, though I'm not sure what they'd be trying to deliver them with. Their only real chance would be a surprise attack with long-range missiles (the existence, capability and status of which I certainly don't know enough about) or shipping containers; I wouldn't bet on their aging submarines or outdated F16s getting very far. The Israeli military would have a hard fight against
one mid-rank European power, and would of course be comprehensively trashed if it attempted to take on Europe as a whole.
And there's the whole MAD thing going on. I wouldn't bet on a British nuclear response even in the event of London being redecorated in glass (it rather depends what Gordon's written in his letters of last resort) but I'd certainly bet on a French or Russian nuclear response, and Israel is not a big place.
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