[Captainpaintball]

what if China or Russia drove their best nuke missile parts over the border and NK was able to assemble a bomb that is able to make it to the dead center of the US and detonate a that magical altitude to permanently put us in the dark?

[GOPJ]

Well, in that case about 90% of us will die within the first 6 months.

[JimSEA]

“what if China or Russia drove their best nuke missile parts over the border and NK was able to assemble a bomb”.

That’s a reasonable concern. Would Putin take advantage of a NK attack to get fat boy to take out American cities and thereby weaken his American opponents? As long as it couldn’t be traced back to Russia, of course he would.

Second, I’d expect fat boy to try and get his shock troops to get in and among South Korean civilians very quickly to use them as de facto hostages and slow the counter attacks. He’s shown repeatedly that his own civilians mean little to him but he likely understands that the opposition values theirs.

[Former Proud Canadian]

I don't think China, at this point, sees an EMP attack against the US to be in its interest. Who would buy all their cheap crap? Their economy would be destroyed.

Russia is in better shape to weather the storm of a collapse of the US electrical grid, but I don't think they would cause one, or even allow it to happen.