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Old 11-November-2007, 03:41 AM
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Why would a sane person think Fox News would boast about the use of tactical nuclear weapons?
Uh... A person who's making a joke, perhaps??
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Uh... A person who's making a joke, perhaps??
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But I could quote it as improbable fiction.
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I'm still not sure why there'd be only one such bomb apiece for multiple planes, though.
Political pressure to maximize number of sorties flown, as that's the measure of success. Ref. Goodhart's Law as reformulated by Professor Marilyn Strathern `When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.'
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