petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If the SAS are coming through the front door, you just went bankrupt.
>
> If England, France, Belgium etc. *new* that you would dump a
> massively toxic witches brew into their fishing waters, they might
> make sure that you weren't invaded by guys with guns.
>
> Then again, they just may shoot your off-site personel in
> their sleep, and blockade your platform until you starve.
It's still a nuclear-power type of scenario. One of the problems with
nuclear powers is that if you back them into a corner, they have
nothing personally to lose by nuking you and anyone else who gets in
your way. They're dead anyway. So long as your adversary thinks that
you're insane enough to detonate your weapon, they'll leave you alone.
Detonating a dirty nuke sixty miles off the coast of Britain would
cause a toxic cloud to blow over Europe. The public panic might be the
worst part.
Then again, NATO might just bomb the platform with a low-yield nuclear
bomb dropped from an aircraft, too.
