LetвЂ™s get rid of other вЂњproblem areas.вЂќ 2.В Ramadi, Iraq Once youвЂ™ve popped the cork thereвЂ™s no reason to stop. On top of that, most of those remaining alive will probably die in the coming weeks as well.Д«ut our nuke happy President wouldnвЂ™t stop there. Most of them were civilians but now theyвЂ™re all dead and the 4000-year-old city will be uninhabitable for the foreseeable future. Homs is gone now, along with 340,000 of its nearly 1 million residents (according to old census numbers). HereвЂ™s what a medium yield (300 kiloton) ICBM would do to Homs. WeвЂ™re going to deploy an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) instead of a tactical nuke because in order to use tactical nukes you have to get them near the target and weвЂ™re more into push-button, Facebook style click nuking. ThereвЂ™s been lots of ISIS in Homs (though they were driven out) and we have to get rid of them (or make sure they can never return). WeвЂ™ll call him President Nukem and IвЂ™ll pick the targets. I think itвЂ™s fair to assume that most of theseВ people have no idea what вЂњnukingвЂќ a country actually means but for the sake of illustration letвЂ™s conduct a thought experiment where a President willing to nuke people willy nilly becomes President of these united states and starts nuking. Talk about nuking places may as well be a national pastime on Facebook where angry and ignorant people gather to vent their spleens. ThereвЂ™s also state level elected officials who believe in nuking like this Arkansas State Senator who argues about it on Facebook. So, 5 out of 7 GOP candidates at the time werenвЂ™t willing to take the nuclear option off the table and thatвЂ™s just in regards to Iran continuing to develop a nuke of their own.ДЄnd youвЂ™ve likely seen that 30% of Republicans are all for the notion of bombing countries that donвЂ™t exist as long as they sound like theyвЂ™re in the Middle East. This was in regards to Iran possibly gaining a nuclear weapon of their own. Back in 2007, nearly every Republican candidate was unwilling to take nuking Iran off the table.

When asked if he would rule out using nuclear weapons against ISIS, Donald Trump directly declined to answer the question, meaning that he neither ruled it out nor ruled it in.Д«ut this is all nothing new really.

Maybe he wants to carpet bomb with nukes. Only nukes carry that mythology and only nukes produce enough heat to melt sand and fuse it into glass. Carpet bombing involves traditional, non-nuclear arms but these bombs donвЂ™t have the power to melt sand into glass and they donвЂ™t carry with them the insinuation that everything bombed to smithereens will then glow. ThereвЂ™s been someВ loose talk about using nukes by Republicans this campaign season.В In the above quote, Senator Ted Cruz is talking about bombing ISIS but itвЂ™s a confusing statement.

вЂњI donвЂ™t know if sand can glow in the dark, but weвЂ™re going to find out.вЂќ - Ted Cruz, December 2015 вЂњWe will carpet-bomb them into oblivion,вЂќ he says. Castle Bravo explosion (15 megatons) via Wiki Commons

Nuke them till they glow