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FoxNews: What would happen if North Korea fires a missile at the US
FoxNews.com ^ | 8-Sept-2017 | By Lucas Tomlinson, Jennifer Griffin

Posted on 09/08/2017 8:21:08 PM PDT by topher

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Note that the 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled in a few months just MILES from the DMZ in South Korea.


21 posted on 09/08/2017 8:44:52 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: topher

Uh, your post is so retarded, it would be a disservice not to suggest you seek a better education...


22 posted on 09/08/2017 8:46:21 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: topher

Souel is downwind of the DMZ


23 posted on 09/08/2017 8:48:23 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: topher

A wall of nuclear detonations that would wipe out Seoul?
Please tell me more about clean nukes.


24 posted on 09/08/2017 8:48:48 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Finalapproach29er
I guess I disagree. Trump is not a do-nothing president.

Nor is he an Obama-Mess masquerading as president.

He has shown that he will quickly use force.

Ask the survivors of that recent ISIS convoy from Lebanon.

Ask the Syrians at the Syrian Airbase bombed by Trump after a Chemical Weapons attack.

The article claims that the NSA team has marching orders in place.

25 posted on 09/08/2017 8:49:15 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: sparklite2

You mean like with a cloth


26 posted on 09/08/2017 8:55:07 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: sparklite2
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design#Clean_bombs

The basis is using material that is not fissionable.

27 posted on 09/08/2017 8:56:17 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: al baby

No, Hillary. LOL


28 posted on 09/08/2017 8:56:39 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Finalapproach29er; CatOwner

We were muted in 2001 because it took us a while to figure out what had happened and where to strike. Even now, we are not 100% certain we responded to the right target.

As to the flights over Japan, you are right. But since then the nuclear portion of his arsenal has improved and become weaponized. Also, as I remember, these flights were over Japanese “territory” that is uninhabited. Nonetheless, your point is well taken. I just think things have progressed to the point that our nuclear response is ready and waiting on a light trigger pull.


29 posted on 09/08/2017 8:57:12 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: sparklite2
I am suggesting far enough North. If North Korea fires 20,000 artillery pieces, estimates are 1 million dead for South Korea.

Far enough North might be 20 miles North of the DMZ.

30 posted on 09/08/2017 8:58:09 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: CodeToad

The boomer sub would launch all 16 missiles 30 seconds after the bomb hit LA (or Pearl Harbor or San Diego). The second strike would be worse than the first. BUT I think—Kim will set us up, hit his own people and say it was the USA before launching—That way he could get Russia and China on his side. He’s no fool. Go to the UN as be blows South Korea off the map.


31 posted on 09/08/2017 8:59:12 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: oldplayer

I have no idea where the autocorrect or spellcheck came up with the word “muted” in my response above. Skip it and put in any appropriate word that you can think of. LOL


32 posted on 09/08/2017 8:59:13 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: topher
I may be WAY OFF IN LEFT FIELD on my posts.

But there is such a thing as a clean bomb.

If we respond to North Korea, North Korea might fire 20,000 artillery pieces at Seoul, South Korea.

Estimates are 1 million dead from that.

There has to be a plan in place to take out 20,000 artillery pieces before 1 million people (in South Korea) are killed.

But again, I may posting rubbish -- it is an area I have no expertize. And going to GlobalSecurity.Org would take too much time.

Apologies if this sounds like a bunch of HOGWASH.

33 posted on 09/08/2017 9:08:13 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: topher

We would have to react sighing a few minutes to shoot down an oncoming missile but our boomer subs were designed to be a dead hand strike.


34 posted on 09/08/2017 9:10:19 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: Fai Mao

Are the folks in HK scared?


35 posted on 09/08/2017 9:11:15 PM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: topher
Article on Clean Nukes (Discussion):

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/zero-radiation-nuclear-bomb.56356/

36 posted on 09/08/2017 9:13:31 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: topher

Sorry, but your post was just asking for it. No cruelty intended. Peace.

I doubt We respond with anything nuclear unless he succeeds in hitting launching and detonating a nuke over us or one of our partners. Otherwise, Our response will be something on the order what happened to Baghdad after 911, but without any wait for UN resolutions. It will be massive but conventional. And South Korea will definitely have casualties because we have no silver bullet for the artillary problem. It will take days to weeks to neutralize 10000 dug in artillary positions, unless they just up and surrender after we take out Kim.


37 posted on 09/08/2017 9:21:07 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: topher

Here is the deal. If Trump chooses to retaliate, vs. a test launch by attacking NK you can expect China to intervene expansively. And you can expect Russia to intervene covertly. Between the two of them there will be a lot of fire power and a lot of soldiers. Then there is NK which will fire everything they have at Seoul. We can easily defeat NK, but we cannot easily defeat China, Russia and NK. And that is what we are up against.

I like Trumps idea of arming Japan and SK to the hilt. Let China deal with that.


38 posted on 09/08/2017 9:27:18 PM PDT by poinq
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To: Exit148

Yes, they know where I live.


39 posted on 09/08/2017 9:34:30 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: granite

People in HK are like Canadians. They don’t think anything will ever happen to them.


40 posted on 09/08/2017 9:36:22 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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