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Old Apr 30, 2004, 04:45 pm   #3 (permalink) (top)
Jet
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The usual definition of terrorism is the deliberate killing of innocent civilians in order to terrorize people into supporting a political cause, where the cause is usually but not always to withdraw from a territory. Hence, the use of nuclear weapons to destroy a city à la Hiroshima and Nagasaki is terrorism, but using a nuke because you can't be bothered to attack person WXYZ more accurately and using a tactical nuke on military targets are not.


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