Tell it to the NORK Young Un and then get back with us.
Any nuclear strike of any magnitude would only take place as a last resort to convince the stubborn enemy that further resistance is futile.
The more conventional form of warfare, pounding targets with aerial bombardment of non-nuclear nature, bunker-busters and MOAB drops, strafing motor columns on the ground, taking out concentrations of enemy war material, breaking up lines of communications, and generally making life quite complicated for the North Korean ruling elite, including Kim Jong Un, would be applied first. If total demoralization of the North Korean army does not then take place, whether Kim has attempted to launch nuclear weapons or not, THEN the decision to use sterner measures is warranted. Whether that includes nukes or not, is a command decision, coming from the top.
Nuclear weapons are not, and never should be, the first option in any military engagement. They are very definitely last resort.
No Nukes was a lie. They didn’t protest NorK and Iran becoming nuclear powers or using nuclear energy.
The two man rule ensures that the SECDEF verify the Presidential launch order.
Contrary to this moronic article, the 1979 computer chip episode did not nearly put us in a war with the soviets. In my mind, the closest we came to nuclear war was the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. A somewhat close second is the 1983 Soviet reaction to NATO’s Able Archer exercise.That would have been a far deadlier attack than what would have occurred in 1962. By 1983, the Soviets had thousands of strategic and tactical warheads at their disposal.