# What If The US Gets Nuked? What Is Its Policy?

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**Created:** [June 26, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-us-gets-nuked-what-is-its-policy/309911 "2005-06-26T12:21:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-us-gets-nuked-what-is-its-policy/309911/12 "2005-06-26T17:08:19Z")

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> [@Polycarp](#):
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> Clearly, if someone detonates a suitcase nuke within U.S. territory prior to 01/20/09, our proper course is to invade Venezuela, or alternatively perhaps assert domination over the North Sea. This is based on an analysis of foreign policy from 01/21/01 to the present.

**Poly** This is GQ. Let’s try to keep out political jabs.

Because, then some other poster is gonna come back and…what? _crap!_

See, now you have **rstubblefield** doing it.

Quit it.  
**samclem** GQ Moderator

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