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Old January 15th, 2005, 10:36 PM

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Default Re: OT: Nuclear War???

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TerranC said:
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If, for example, North Korea launched a nuke at the US because one of their leaders was a little bit loopy,
That's a rhetorical question, right?

NK's leader is known to be more than a bit kooky.

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what do you think the US would do?? Wait until they got another few nukes thrown at them, or nuke 'em back??
Hopefully, the US will have developped sufficient missile defense programs/systems by then; It's not as if NK nukes (if they exist) are high tech, most of them would be scuds with with a plutonium bar attached. But should one hit, it is most likely that the US will retaliate, but not with nukes.


IIRC standard US policy is pretty simple: any large scale use of chemical or biological weapons, or any use of nuclear weapons, gets a nuclear response. Probably a larger one than the initial attack. As pointed out later dirty bombs are pyscological weapons; the actual damage would be minimal.

Biological and chemical weapons are similar. Yes, they are nasty. No, they AREN'T anywhere near a nuke in potency. Not the ones we have now anyway.

An attack with chemicals in a Japanease subway- basiclly the best possible enviroment for such an attack, since its enclosed and has a ventilation system to spread the chemicals for you- only killed about 10 people.
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