Look what two passenger jets fully loaded with fuel did on 9/11.
Imagine 2 or 3 ICBMs strategically hitting their (large populated) targets.
If 9/11 proved anything, it is that in order to deal major pshchological and economical havoc on the U.S. doesn't take as much as we may have once thought.
Got us willing to put paid to the folks who did it.
Imagine 2 or 3 ICBMs strategically hitting their (large populated) targets.
Cathay will glow in the dark for generations to come. US citizens of Chinese descent will lie through their teeth and insist their ancestors came over from Japan.
If 9/11 proved anything, it is that in order to deal major pshchological and economical havoc on the U.S. doesn't take as much as we may have once thought.
Part of that was the unexpected use of our own economic assets to inflict the attack.