Like Mike Tyson said “everyone’s got a plan until they get hit”
Not a smart thing to take on the US military
I did read that Russia has a 200 megaton nuclear missile positioned in the ocean to cause a wave of 1000 to 1500 ft that would go A thousand Miles inland when it hit the US.
Of course they would be annihilated but it is something that sounds quite difficult to defend against
They ought to lob a couple rounds into the city of Portland while they’re at it.
That’s about the same energy as Krakatoa - and the furthest inland would be a wave “engineered” to go up the Mississippi Valley. MAYBE 200 megatons @ the bottom of the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico could cause such a tsunami (great depth is needed to efficiently create a really big wave when it hits the Gulf Coast), but then a “missile” doesn’t make a lot of sense. Plus it could be shot down. Now, a robot submarine, maybe, but, it takes a LOT of energy positioned just right to create a true monster tsunami. It likely makes more sense / would be much easier to inundate East Coast / West Coast cities.
FWIW, 200 megatons sounds like a lot, but, Chicxulub was approx. 20-25 MILLION times larger, and caused an “only” around 330 ft. high tsunami when it got to FL and TX. Granted that Chicxulub hit in relatively shallow water. OTOH it made a crater 62 miles wide and 19 miles deep. Quite the bang.
“Of course they would be annihilated but it is something that sounds quite difficult to defend against”
Nah, easy enough. Just build a 3 inch thick x 250’high steel wall with diffuser holes spaced every 1.5 inches from Canada to our southern border.
When wave hits the diffuser holes break up the force and everything is cool.
Let DJT do it, he can build things.
Tyson said “Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
The story I heard is it is always under the surface off the coast.
But then again, I am still waiting for the suitcase nukes from 9/11.