I find all this very worrying.
Is it possible to take out said facillities without causing a massive leak of radioactivity?- I am not looking for an answer to be posted on this.
Bearing in mind the distance the radioactivity from chernobyl travelled, how will the friendly/allied/neutral countries in the middle east/eastern europe/indian subcontinent feel or react when their people/crops/animals are contaminated?
If said event did happen, how many countries would still offer the USA (and us if we're daft enough to get involved) bases/facillities.- Not many I think.
Were we being conned for 40 years in Germany that deterrence worked? I know the Warsaw Pact/ NATO confrontation was different but we sat for 40 years opposite the biggest collection of nuke/chem in the world and never seemed to feel the need for a pre-emptive strike.
A bit simplistic maybe, but I can't see an easy way out.