But the cost would be extremely high—particular for the civilian population in Seoul and other large cities in the region. “A war on the Korean peninsula would be terrible,” Milley said. “However a nuclear weapon detonating over Los Angeles would be terrible.”
The author fails to provide any evidence to support his last sentence.
“particular for the civilian population in Seoul and other large cities”
Isn’t the initial plan to only surgically destroy missile and a-bomb facilities?
You mean this sentence?:
“However a nuclear weapon detonating over Los Angeles would be terrible.”
Well, it would be terrible to the ten or so remaining conservatives in LA....
I favor MAD for dealing with this situation.
Look, a low-yield NUDET within CONUS would be bad, for sure (I do not believe in the EMP story, at least not in its catastrophic version).
However, Japan was ready to keep fighting after TWO (plus all the other catastrophic damage inflicted before 8/6/45), and a single 8-12 kT explosion in the US would mean the immediate and irrevocable end of Kim, his regime, and his nation.
So yeah, it would suck, but I bet he wouldn’t do it, and if he did, we would deal.
Might tickle the fault and send it all into the Pacific - putting the beautiful climate out of reach of conservatives forever.....and creating a terrible stench of dead liberal bodies that would take several months to abate....