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To: BwanaNdege
What is absurd is everyone's preoccupation with ICBMs & re-entry vehicles. All the NORKs have to do is put the bomb in a yacht and cruise into a marina in DC, NYC Chicago, Seattle, Miami, San Fran, Minneapolis, etc. Somali pirates have the 'sophistication' to accomplish that.

You're right. BUT to kill 90% of us they'll need to get a nuke up high enough to cause the emp effect over a wide area. One nuke 125 miles above Nebraska will wipe out the grid and un-hardened computers chips.

Most of us would die within the first three months.

That said, of course you're right - they'll bang for their buck if they walk a nuke across the Mexican border or do the yacht thing. But that damage is regional and we'll be able to totally destroy North Korea - and survive. We would not survive as a first world country if our grid was taken out...

48 posted on 04/14/2017 8:04:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama to Lynch to Bill Clinton: Unmasked reports transferred face-to-face at obscure airport?)
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To: GOPJ
We would not survive as a first world country if our grid was taken out...

Because we're too stupid to rebuild?

99 posted on 04/14/2017 8:34:00 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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