You can't be serious.
Killing millions of innocent civilians in response to a (successful) attack on a military target in the open ocean, with zero collateral damage, is unthinkable.
“You can’t be serious.”
Tactical nukes would fly nearly instantaneously. At military targets.
It would be up to China if they wanted to go strategic.
Not a good choice for them.
We have over 1,500 nukes ready to go RIGHT NOW.
They have about 300 total.
No, YOU can’t be serious.
An attack on significant strategic U.S military forces, especially those that would dramatically alter the defense of the United States is an act of total war, unless you want to sue for peace at the onset.
JN: You raise an interesting topic.
Would we want to ‘destroy the planet’?
or ‘better red than dead’
How many boomer skippers would launch ?
I hope our threat is enough of a deterrent that we won’t have to find out.
Remember Pearl Harbor and what that cost the Japanese for their culture of striking the first blow.