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We know the DOD has contingency plans for every possible scenario any place in the world and updates them periodically.
If NK targets anything US, island, continental, ship, etc. will be sufficient provocation to do surgical strikes on NK destroying all missile sites and selected military targets. That will effectively end NK as a threat in the foreseeable future. Certainly the DOD has such a plan on the books, but it requires POTUS approval to initiate.
Now, it will leave a huge humanitarian problem. If we had a conservative in the WH, we would have a chance to cause a revolution to rise up, and with he SK operatives working the area, remove the communist government and install one friendly to SK, and by extension the US, and eventually lead to a unified peninsula. Both China and Russia will work against this plan. But with smart US leadership, it could happen.
OOPs!! sorry ‘bout that. I am not sure the US possesses “smart” leadership in the WH, Congress or in the Pentagon. Like I said - just a thought.
Austin is full of Obama voters, so THAT struck a nerve!
“could send America back in time a hundred years.”
Sounds good to me.
As an ex-military member, a large (nuclear based) EMP pulse would cause significant damage to our power grid and nonmilitary graded equipment, but is recoverable and would not take that long to recover key components (6 months). Doomsayers aside. NPK has no followup strike capability.
Fortunately, the NPK doesn't have that level of nuke capability. They have only demonstrated a low yield nuke. Additionally they have not demonstrated they have the miniaturization capability necessary to launch a ICBM based nuke.
If they managed to do this and actually followed through, our response would be overwhelming. North Korea would cease to exist. The current regime would be destroyed and they know it. They exist to preserve their regime. The leadership is not ideologues, they are parasites on the Korean people and the world.
Kim and his generals are not suicidal....They want something, more free food aid etc.
Note, to get an EMP that would affect the whole US, the article estimates the enemy would need to detonate something in the 1-10 megaton range at an altitude of 250 to 300 miles.
These sumbitches better not make us hafta’ saddle up here in Texas. Might hafta’ borrow some boats from somebody...
Not trying to downplay the threats, but a ‘blacked out’ U.S. would create a ‘blacked out’ world. A world grinding to a halt would bring China and Russia to a halt. Then where is the fat little Korean going to get his food? He may not have thought this all through, but I’m sure his Chinese puppet masters have.
The radius of effect would not be that large from a single nuke and the effect on electronics would not likely be that severe.
We and the Russian detonated hundreds of atmospheric nukes. EMP was noticed but it wasn't a game changer. Yes, a most of our components aren't hardened, but then a lot of them are inadvertently hardened via their location.
And the Norks aren't going to deliver a hydrogen bomb, but a low yield nuke with a low yield EMP.
Everybody calm down!!! Obama will take care of us. He has everything under control. Nothing to see here folks, move along move along...
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I’m not real worried about Kim Yung Dung and the bull$hit he babbles on about.
Raptor22 thanks for the topic! I will buy the “one second after “ book.
Pinging all y’all to posts:
42, 64, 83, 86, 104, and 136.
Also 72 & 77.
Observation:
How far can those e.b.t. folks in the cities walk ?
Now can we thank Ronald Reagan?
Now that SecDef Hagel has lit the fuse, how long will it before 0 will be 'forced' to address the nation?And let’s not forget that Obammie the Commie pulled our missile defense out of Poland, leaving a great ally unprotected against attacks from the Soviets, the Chinese, and a handful of other dictatorial regimes in the region.
“We have always been at war with Eastasia”
Why the focus on complex 3-stage rockets and nukes when there are so many remote and exposed HV T-lines and substations in the US, that would take months to repair/replace/re-energize?
Actual Quotes From the Iraqi Information Minister
(aka ‘Baghdad Bob’)
“There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!”
“My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all”
“Our initial assessment is that they will all die”
“I blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!”
“God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.”
‘We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back.”
“Surrender or be burned in their tanks.”
“No I am not scared and neither should you be!”
“We have them surrounded in their tanks”
Britain “is not worth an old shoe.”
Of U.S. troops: “They are most welcome. We will butcher them.”
“We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.”
“Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire”
“These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying”
“They’re not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.”
“They do not even have control over themselves! Do not believe them!”
“Faltering forces of infidels cannot just enter a country of 26 million people and lay besiege to them! They are the ones who will find themselves under siege. Therefore, in reality whatever this miserable Rumsfeld has been saying, he was talking about his own forces. Now even the American command is under siege.”
“They tried to bring a small number of tanks and personnel carriers in through al-Durah but they were surrounded and most of their infidels had their throats cut.”
“We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.”
“On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of the infidels who were killed and the number of destroyed vehicles. The operation continues”
“We’re giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn’t accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.”
“I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.”
“Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected.”