Can you say Armaggedon?
The sad part of a lot of this is at one time we could have easily nuked out the Middle east with the neutron bomb. For those that don't remember it, that was the very dirty nuke designed to kill people while leaving the built up infrastructure relatively undamaged. People died but he buildings were OK. They were designed so that the radioactivity would drop to safe levels within about three months. IIRC, it was President Ford who ordered them destroyed. Too bad. Just might have been a serious tactical mistake.
Paul B.