Posted on 09/06/2017 5:40:49 AM PDT by C19fan
> You make it sound much more difficult and problematic than I understand it would be. I won’t go back and forth with you.
It involves deep changes in the technologies, which have been designed and implemented for features and low cost, rather than rad hardness. You can’t retrofit rad hardness, and it is generally expensive.
> Bottom line: we’re in deep trouble.
Agreed 100%.
Thank you. I respect and appreciate your knowledge.
So, curious, but what would happen to someone with a pacemaker if a bomb with an EMP went off? They’d die, right?
Same for those on any heart/lung machine...
The major drawback of these large fission yields is safety?
Ummm, isn’t that an advantage?
Who would want a safe weapon? Lol.
Pretty sure if Taiwan was given nuclear weapons they would either.
Not arrive,
or
Taiwan would be China within a matter of days.
North Korea obviously has a better manufacturing capacity then we have been led to believe.
I don’t buy that North Korea is a “third world” country.
I think a lot of what the public knows about North Korea is propaganda.
Because “shocker” it’s not that hard. If you have enough radioactive material, and conventional explosive, you CAN create a fission reaction.
The Norks are heavily in bed with both Pakistan & Iran. They could have easily bought what pieces (If not the whole assembly!) they needed from either or both places.
Could have but there is nothing to indicate that they did.
We’d have heard more than just theories it was going on.
If they were, I’m sure our intelligence would know, and Pakistan would be on the chopping block as well as Iran. But mostly it’s just China and North Korea. If anyone helped them it’s China for sure. China has the most to gain from a war between the US and North Korea. If North Korea detonated one bomb in say.....New York City, it would wreck the US financially, China would be way ahead, and they would have plausible deniability in any involvement.
My personal opinion is that there is something going on we aren’t being told, I think there is a growing list of countries with major grievances against the US and that the plan is to take the US off the world stage through one surprise strike. North Korea has a part to play in that plan. Pretty sure we’re going to wake up one day with no power, no communications, and nobody is going to know what happened.
To paraphrase JFK.
It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from North Korea against any allied nation as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon China.
Well, South Korea is technologically advanced. All North Korea had to do was kidnap, blackmail and/or hire people...from the country next door.
agree
Thanks to the Zero, the US interceptor program was largely de-funded, and there are only 20 anti-ICBM missiles in the battery in AK. To be sure of a hit, 3 or 4 missiles would be launched at each target ... how’s your 100’ deep underground bunker - well stocked with several years supplies of food and water, generator and fuel?
I AM SO SCREWED.
“I AM SO SCREWED.”
Laz, we’re starting to think that isn’t a statement but a prayer for “server”.
NORK “hydrogen bomb” ping
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