Why couldn't the US just drop an atomic bomb over the area where they think Osama bin Ladin is?

Question

It worked @ Hiroshima after the second try, so it should definately work in the Middle East.

The reason I suggest the atomic bomb was because it was thought to believe that bin Laden was in a rough terrain of a stretch of mountains that was almost impossible to be reached. Now, how many "innocent civilians" do you think would be up in those mountains?

Excuse me um, Lindsey? George Bush didn't send 2 planes crashing into the World Trade Center, did he? I didn't think so. Did everyone forget about what happened to our country in 2001?? It seems as though everyone did. But maybe we should take the liberal approach and let them attack us again. Won't that be fun?

Answer 1

Because in our post-modernism culture, self-sacrifice prevails. In this case that means send our boys off to get slaughtered rather than risk a decisive win.

It's a little like hiring thousands of people to pick up leaves in your yard using chop-sticks, while the leave sucker and rake are tucked away in the garage.

If we were to rain fire down on one of these hoodlums, other states may get the idea they better not mess with us.

Answer 2

Because they would be bombing the United States. Fact. It's a war because they needed a war(oil and war are the two biggest money makers) and O'sama was the patsy. It's a war because they needed oil and wanted to put Saddam out. Most importantly they're using 911 and other disasters to play upon our emotions as American citizens. They're using our sentiment so that we will be scared into giving them more control of our privacy rights.This way of political life has taken place over centuries of time and more people would know if they would just do the research. It's all fact. Bush and his minions in the UN will be responsible for the New world order. Also, the only place where wreckage was found was at the trade center and it was not enough to be two airplanes. At the pentagon and at the field where the "planes" crashed, they found nothing. If a shuttle blows up in the hemisphere, we get so much wreckage that we can put it all back together again. In plane crashes they are required to find ALL pieces to figure out WHAT happened. Accountability. There was absolutely no wreckage found at the pentagon or in the field where the other plane crashed. Nothing turns to dust upon impact aside from a bomb. The other building that fell in NY was a controlled demolition experts say. So in essence, we did drop a bomb on O'sama and the CIA that put his entire force together. They were all in the pentagon.

Answer 3

The US is the only one that has ever used the bomb. Even with it being necessary to end the war, we are still shamed by the other nations for it. Osama bin Ladin doesn't rise to the level of ending WWII. A nuclear weapon is really a useless weapon. One is dammed if he uses it. Only a small country can use it against a large one. Any large/strong country would be looked at as a bully.

Answer 4

Not to be overly facetious, but... why couldn't the North Koreans just drop an atom bomb over the area where they think George Bush is? Maybe they could drop a second one on [your city here]. Simply, we all want to hope and pray that no one ever drops The Bomb on anybody ever again. That's the price that 100,000 innocent Japanese men, women and children paid to teach you and me that lesson. It was a very steep price for a very important lesson. That we learn and forever remember that lesson is, in my mind, far more important to world history than that their deaths likely prevented a larger number of Japanese and American casualties that would have occurred by conventional warfare.

Answer 5

You know, it's controversial, using Nukes.
My thinking is that in some instance it could work, but they don't want anybody to know they have a nuclear bomb "small" enough.
Bunker-Buster technology has gone forward, I'm sure, kind of in line with the Neutron Bomb, but with even less radioactive fallout, practically negligible and absorbed by water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_fusion_weapon
This "weapon" is thought by some to have been used at the bottom of the elevator shafts in the World Trade Center buildings, causing the "molten steel" which was discovered under the collapsed buildings (controlled demolition theory).
What I'm saying by this is that "they" don't want their "secret" weapon brought out into the open.

Answer 6

You do understand that dropping a bomb would have repercussions on the entire earth...right? The cloud from the explosion would cause a little thing called nuclear winter (it would, of course, reverse that nasty global warming thing we have been hearing about) and the radiation wouldn't just stay neatly in one spot...it would effect the air, water and soil everywhere. Dropping a nuclear device is not something that should be done lightly.

One can only hope that you were kidding....

Answer 7

Because the United States has signed a treaty along with the United Nations do not use any more nuclear weapons or develop any nuclear weapons. As well it will kill many innocent people and perhaps destroy many enviromental sources such as oil.

Answer 8

First of all becase no one is quite sure where bin Laden is. Second of all he's probably living in a cave, which would probably survive a nuclear strike. Third, the US does not have any atomic bombs anymore, the US arsenal is made up of Teller-Ulam Thermonuclear Tritium-Dueterium Fussion weapons Four, that idea is bat-s**t insane.

Answer 9

We know exactly where Bin Ladin is.....

What would be the point in killing him? Somebody else would just rise up and take over his position, then it would just take that much more work to figure out who this person is, and how they think.

Answer 10

He could be in New Zealand for all they know. Also, the bomb is like trying to kill a mosquito with a cannon. The surrounding areas would be affected and the radiation cloud might travel far and wide.