From Politics Daily:U.S. military forces are poorly equipped and untrained to face nuclear-armed opponents such as North Korea who are seeking to neutralize American military superiority -- much as insurgents did with IEDs in Iraq.
Defense Department experts say soldiers and Marines haven't been equipped or trained to fight in a nuclear-contaminated environment since the Cold War ended a generation ago. Aircraft carriers, warplanes and military command and communications networks are insufficiently hardened against the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by a nuclear blast that can burn out electronics systems.
This vulnerability to battlefield nuclear attack or blackmail was seen as an "acceptable risk'' for a decade or more because an Iranian or North Korean bomb seemed a distant threat. Meantime, American diplomats struggled to bring these nuclear development and testing programs to a halt.
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My Comment: The remarks in the comments tread for this article deserve a read .... it illustrates the strong feelings that exist on this topic. As for myself .... it may be the ultimate IED, but any rogue nation who is in possession of such a weapon will mainly target civilian ... not military targets.
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