How heavy do cobalt/neutron bombs have to be?
It wouldn’t look like we did it to ourselves, if North Korea actually dropped the bomb. It would look like our noble (foreign enemy combatant, to those who have comprehended the 2008 coup) Commander in Chief had done everything he could but an unhinged North Korean (or Iranian, take your pick) dictator had jumped the shark.
And Iran already sent a BUNCH of Hamas/Hezbollah operatives to Venezuela on direct unchecked flights. Between them and the drug cartels, there’s an army ready to invade - perhaps armed with WMD’s. A lot of them are probably already here in the major cities and awaiting the signal for some kind of WMD attack.
And the drones would be perfect for finding rebel patriots who had survived by being off the grid and/or escaping to the countryside.
Nobody would believe the NK’s could do it. No one would buy it, despite the remake of Red Dawn.
The US is a big place, and it is decentralized. You need to hit a bunch of key bases AFTER you blind the satellites, and there are a lot of those too.
See, that’s the thing - is there a response doctrine for systematically blinding a superpower? It’s a really good question, because your response time goes down so fast.
Comms wise, you end up having to rely on voice comms via HTTP or by data coms via ULF which is hard to jam (harder to jam).
No doubt about it I’d hit the satellites first if I had the ability to do so. Nobody is dead, so a nuclear response is possibly seen as an overreaction.