OK, here’s a wargame for y’all:
Missile bloom identified by satellite in DPRK. Two minutes into boost phase, destination is Kansas City.
Attack conference is called. POTUS is presented with the launch authorization codes.
No other inbound tracks.
Question one: Attack DPRK or wait. If attack, provide your attack scenario. If wait:
Warhead lands, explosive charges detonate, no nuclear explosion.
Question two: Warhead is a dud. Provide your response and rationale.
Alternate one: Nuclear detonation 10km west of KC, 8kT, 250 foot wide crater, 500 dead plus livestock, fallout to the NE x 150 miles. Provide your response and rationale.
Alternate two: Nuclear detonation in KC, 100kT, extensive destruction, 50K dead, 200K seriously injured. Provide your response and rationale.
Kansas City was hit in the 80s you dope! See the missiles coming from the secret silos on the KU campus?! That's Ellsworth Hall in the background ;)
What is it with KCMO always getting nuked. LOL.....Seriesly, though, it IS a primary nuclear target. We build triggering mechanisms for nukes that we ship to Pantex form KCMO (former Richards Gabauer AFB area). Also, nearby is Whiteman AFB, with their estimated 100 B61 nukes.....or none in the WSA.
I think a quarantine and blockade of NK with nothing going in or out (except via the Chinese border) and a demand to hand over Little Fat Boy for a war crimes trial. You think there's at least a few NORKs with sense enough to not launch a first nuke strike. Very bad public relations blunder to the rest of the world.