>>If the average person on the street knew 10% of what I know about nuclear weapons (and I’m assuredly no physicist) they’d shudder every time they heard the word Korea.
For example what? I study nukes too and consider myself extremely educated on them - but also like you, not as physicist - so maybe we can provide some contextual information for the rest of the gang here.
Well, for example, one MIRV’d SLBM from our submarines could destroy and kill pretty much everyone in North Korea. As a matter of fact, that would probably be overkill, to say the least. One missile. How many of those are typically deployed? Or we could destroy them with less cruise missiles than Trump fired at Syria. Or a handful of bombers. Or other weapons that I cannot discuss.