"I do think that the only rational response to the use of a nuclear weapon on people is another nuclear weapon on the folks who started it."

I'd call that mad. Once the bluff has failed, all that achieves is further devastation. That was the logic underlying the use of the term MAD. It involved convincing other side that you actually were mad enough to do that. And the chances that it wasn't a bluff, and that in fact our leaders were that mad. Or perhaps evil is the word.

Makes Bin Laden's lot look like very small beer in comparison. A mere three thousand souls? As against how mnay hundred millions?