especially modern nukes

true, but so do 15 years of limited warfare

If you bomb Tehran with an A bomb, you'll be radiating multiple local countries and shit as well.

What Iran needs is a reason to have deplomatic elections.

The US welcoming them to the world stage in exchange for free elections would go a long way.

I bet they'd take it.

I don't think a well used tactical nuke exploding at the correct altitude, generates that much fallout

but probably yeah , and thats why they haven't been used

arial explosion is normal from what I understand, it amplyfies the force or something.

yes, but reduces fallout

the worst fallout is irradiated soil , sublimated and thrown into the air, thats what creates the whole "post apocalyptic" picture people have of an atomic explosion

Pretty sure it still radiates the area pretty heavily as it's dragged though the area with the weather.

but really if you think Hiroshima and Nagasaki, became viable cities only a a couple decades after the explosions, compared to places thatw ere used for underground testing for example

I'm not saying you are wrong

I'm not 100% either way.

just thinking that maybe considering the costs of long wars it might not be that farfetched

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were different bombs as well, so I dunno how much diff that makes.

yeah they were smaller , and pure fission

I don't think the middle east would calm down just because we nuke Iran though.

pretty small compared to what the huge 80s bombs

but you could absolutely make smaller cleaner bombs that would erase a whole city and force a country into submission

Might aswell tomahawk Tehran's higher ups.

true

That's what they did in Iraq.

problem with that

Very effective.

smaller hits

Yea, that's the goal.

just create martyrs

People care about casualties.

lol

you end up with even more radical groups

what i meant to say was that there's something to be said about shock and awe

NAh, kill the people holding the leashes and these people go play tribe politics.

Just like iraq and Syria

exactly thats been arguably worse

Tribes rule over the middle east.

I say let the tribes rule themselves.

like whats happened in IRAK, that was exactly why the Hussein Regime was put in place in the first place

They weaker than way anyways

Hussain was one tribe having power over everyone else too bne fair.