Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
Your last sentence is irrelevant. I can imagine a variety of reactions, both political and perhaps with hardware, but nothing nuclear.
The US didn't nuke Saddam when the Stark got hit, did they? And that was with Reagan at the helm.
Nice to see someone in Pakistan has their ducks in a row. Would have been a strange incident, to be sure, had they managed to pull it off.
Nothing is ever irrelevant, least of all nuclear weapons.
That is, in fact, the entire point of having them.
It is one thing to disown the actions of an aircraft. That is easy to sell. A warship is another thing altogether.