[sukhoi-30mki]

Rather exaggerated scenario

[mc5cents]

South Korea’s staunch ally President Barack Obama immediately ­dispatched an aircraft carrier to take part in ­exercises with the South Korean Navy in the Yellow Sea.

(Rolls eyes) Yea right.

[MichaelP]

Talk about hyperbole! They would never get the chance to launch any nukes. They would, in effect, blow themselves up!

Mike

[mikey_hates_everything]

[beebuster2000]

not a bad story. probably already been written as a book.

[Bamanot]

It looks as though we're in for an interesting week. What is the response Yeonpyeong gets hit a second and third time? What will happen if these nuts launch a missile at the Washington or the escorts? If the North threatens recriminations, they sure won't issue some meaningless decree at the UN, they will follow up militarily.

One wonders if the US will even respond with force if one of our warships is attacked.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Totally not gonna happen. Worry about something else like Oblahblah getting re-elected in 2012. Now thats a scary scenario.

[rotstan]

I guess Hiroshima and Nagasaki don’t fall into the category of nuclear war

[screaminsunshine]

MacArthur was right. Truman was Wrong.

[Dr. Sivana]

I was trying to be open minded about the piece, until I saw the words “nuclear winter,” and I realized that the author is stuck in 1983.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The only way there can be a nuclear war is if there is an aggressive nuclear detonation, carried by a delivery system a long way. This means missiles. And missiles can be shot down by other missiles.

Lots of problems here.

The first one is “overkill”. Contrary to popular belief, overkill does not mean to hit the same target a bunch of times. In fact, almost the opposite is true. Overkill means that both nuclear weapons and the missiles that carry them tend to not work at a pretty high rate.

Missiles can just not launch, or they can blow up on their pad or in their silo. Just getting out of their silo kills some. As does failure in their first stage, or if their expended first stage doesn’t separate properly. Or their second or third stage have problems. Or their guidance system.

If any other nukes are going off anywhere around, it can scramble a missiles electronics. A lot fail in reentry, and then finally, they either miss their target by a long distance, or the nuclear weapon fails for any of a number of reasons.

Oh, yes, and they can be perfectly functional, and still get shot down. Or have their electronics messed with by electronic countermeasures. Or a scrambled fighter aircraft AESA radar. Or Mr. Murphy’s mother, Lady (Bad) Luck.

And, if the US has one of its airborne lasers in the area...

[The Comedian]

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[Bean Counter]

This reads like the Cliff’s Notes from a Dale Brown novel, and that’s about the best I can say about this piece...

[DNME]

Slightly exaggerated scenario but certainly plausible. Once the Rubicon is crossed and the first balloon goes up, all bets are off.

If Chinese nukes are landing on the Continental U.S., would that mean we have to rely on FEMA to protect us? Lovely.

All that “fallout shelter” and nuclear survival information from the 1950s is now forgotten. People no longer have a clue about nuke effects, except for a few “survivalists” and “preppers” who get absolutely no respect in the media.

Time to take out a few “put” options on “Human Race, Inc.”

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sukhoi-30mki. Looks like some faux-pacifist agitprop. And here's the buried lead:

the official North Korean news agency declared that: "North Korea will wage second and even third rounds of attacks without any hesitation, if warmongers in South Korea make reckless military provocations again."

[LRoggy]

Why don’t we just send Team America back in? They have experience in North Korea . . .

When all is said and done this is all about a certain NK leader singing “I’m so rone-ry”.

[Koracan]

Nuclear War is so yesterday.

With the results of the Super Collider and the Z-Machine coming in, we will just lift those cities into the Sky using the Higgs Boson forces of Anti Gravity.

[rmlew]

Tom Cain confuses brigades with divisions, thinks that the US has nuclear cruise missiles (we haven't had any since the first Bush administration), that current Chinese ICBMs have the range to him the continental US (not until the DF-31 and DF-41 are operational in the next decade), that Japan would not be involved in a Korean War (as if Okinawa would not be hit before Guam), .....