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human
ELI5: How would the United States react to a nuclear attack on its own territory, most likely? Is there a plan to nuke in response?
gpt
It really depends on who did the nuclear attack...if it was Al-Qaeda than we would most likely look at where the plan was hatched, possibly Yemen? and we would invade and punish them pretty harshly...if it was another nation-state, we would most likely retaliate and let them know we will do it agains't one of their cities. We would declare war regardless because the emotion would demand the federal gov't respond..look at how 9/11 galvanized us that year. This would be on order a magnitude greater.