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What would happen if that balloon had been equipped with a nuke?

Posted on 02/04/2023 5:01:51 PM PST by Jonty30

I'm just wondering what might have happened if it had a nuclear payload and it was set to go off after dropping to 75,000 feet or so?


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To: Jonty30

I think there are far more efficient and capable ways to deliver a nuclear payload than a balloon.


21 posted on 02/04/2023 5:17:48 PM PST by 03A3 (If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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To: Jonty30
With that being said, here's something else for you to ponder:

Riddle:

Some are red, some are orange, some are green and all have one thing in common..........

22 posted on 02/04/2023 5:18:27 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: davidb56

They claim they saw it.

I don’t think they did until some concerned citizen in Montana made a fuss.

Then they looked at archived sat images and started spinning stories.


23 posted on 02/04/2023 5:18:30 PM PST by algore
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To: Jonty30

EMP takes out a large portion of out electric grid and practically everything connected to it.


24 posted on 02/04/2023 5:19:05 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: Jonty30

Biden had to let it distribute whatever bioweapon it carried before he shot it down.


25 posted on 02/04/2023 5:20:47 PM PST by PAR35
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To: djstex

It’s all fun and games till someone gets a city put out.


26 posted on 02/04/2023 5:21:10 PM PST by Equine1952
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To: Jonty30

This was my first thought when I heard about it, EMP Lights Out!!


27 posted on 02/04/2023 5:23:28 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: algore

Some Canucks knew about it before it hit Montana. My guess would be that they asked the U.S. about it around the time it wandered in from Alaska, and if the U.S. didn’t know about it before, they did then.


28 posted on 02/04/2023 5:23:44 PM PST by Hieronymus
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To: Jonty30; Fred Nerks

Balloon with nukes?

Nah!

More like a balloon disseminating Covid 19 virus into the atmosphere or other bio weapons.

It may have ALREADY happened.

And Brandon destroyed the evidence by shooting it down into the ocean, never to be found, after the balloon spread virus and disease all across the United States.

It should have been shot down as it entered US air space.Too late now.


29 posted on 02/04/2023 5:25:21 PM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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To: Jonty30

Another thing to worry about, rather than it dropping 75,000’, is it going off at 75,000’ and causing an EMP, thereby frying damn near everything electronic, if I’m not mistaken. Modern cars not running. No electricity.

Dry run: Balloons called top ‘delivery platform’ for nuclear EMP attack

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dry-run-balloons-called-top-delivery-platform-for-nuclear-emp-attack/ar-AA174OkJ


30 posted on 02/04/2023 5:26:16 PM PST by qaz123
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So.....just in time to take Biden's document scandal and his son's treacherous dealings with the CCP off of the regular *news* cycle....

along comes a Chinese *spy* balloon to dominate the news cycle; Biden gets to look "Presidential" as he orders it shot down....

Anyone else besides me ever see "Wag The Dog"....??

With the Biden family business dealings with China and the CCP, is it a stretch to think that maybe all it took was a phone call...?

31 posted on 02/04/2023 5:26:43 PM PST by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: Jonty30
Well that's it. But just spitballing here, let's say we know where all their missile launch sites are. Naturally, in a full out war we would target those first. But launching biological weapons from a balloon would probably require less stationary infrastructure. It's just another wrinkle to be added to the mix.

Of course, I don't know, but they probably have the capability to launch nukes from submarines, as we do. So a balloon-borne weapon is more of a psychological terror weapon, I guess. Part of the whole doomsday matrix. They are running tests and collecting data. Since 1945, unfortunately, every human being on the planet is living on the battle field.

32 posted on 02/04/2023 5:26:43 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Regulator

And what about everything to the eat and the radioactive cloud went inland?


33 posted on 02/04/2023 5:27:31 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Hot Tabasco

It would have been detected long before it ever reached Canada or the U.S and destroyed.

And you know that, how?


34 posted on 02/04/2023 5:28:17 PM PST by qaz123
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To: devere

Winds over 50,000 feet up are much more steady and predictable.

If China had put a nuke on it and wanted to detonate, it wouldn’t much matter to them if it went off over Michigan or over Texas. Either way it would have really sucked for us.

Huge margin of error for Xi and Co.


35 posted on 02/04/2023 5:28:57 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Equine1952

Thumbs up on your orginal post.


36 posted on 02/04/2023 5:29:42 PM PST by djstex (All I have To Say ...Trump Was Right About Everything !)
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To: qaz123

Details, details

“Regrettable collateral damage” as the mil spokesdroids say


37 posted on 02/04/2023 5:31:22 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Regulator

I would have had front-row seats from the beach two blocks from my house, and wouldn’t be responding to your post.


38 posted on 02/04/2023 5:31:33 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: davidb56

“They seen it …”

God I love this site.


39 posted on 02/04/2023 5:31:40 PM PST by plain talk
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To: fhayek

“”A WMD would be a full on act of war.””

With Biden at the helm? I wouldn’t count on it. I believe the shooting down of the balloon was done specifically over the ocean today so no evidence could be retrieved.

I’ve always been concerned about EMP...


40 posted on 02/04/2023 5:31:56 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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