"Threatening obliteration in exchange for any attack borders on Strangelovian lunacy. If one Iranian happens to fly off the handle and attack say an airforce base in the southern Israel, which is known to harbor Nuclear missiles which Israel is aiming at Iran, Mrs. President will kill 40 million Iranians, not known to be involved in the attacks? "

THAT IS THE WHOLE BASIS of MAD- Which is why I want to see anti-missile systems in place that provide for some other response. Like stopping the IRBM BEFORE it goes off.

But the response to THAT ( in thread discussion) was that it was better to just have a GTW and kill everybody, since it might annoy Russia to be able to prevent that impact.