Laugh of the day - NK nuke strike on white House

[cubby1223]

The NK regimes number one goal is to stay in power. Attacking the US mainland (especially with a nuke) would be about the quickest way for that regime to be obliterated.

All it takes is one crazy person in the right place and time to hit the button. Unless you can guarantee the regime builds in a robust failsafe system requiring authorization from multiple people... usually how dictatorships work, the dictator demands the ability to act without even secondary authorization.

 

[werepossum]

All it takes is one crazy person in the right place and time to hit the button. Unless you can guarantee the regime builds in a robust failsafe system requiring authorization from multiple people... usually how dictatorships work, the dictator demands the ability to act without even secondary authorization.

This is true. Plus, he might decide to nuke Japan or South Korea as our proxy, or even accidentally nuke them while trying to nuke us. Who is going to tell him his rocket can't reach the USA? Much better to tell him it can and did, but the cowardly Americans are covering it up.

Another possibility is that he could launch a nuke into a carrier group. But honestly it's a lot simpler to build a nuke than to build a nuclear-tipped missile and I still think he's more likely to nuke himself than anyone else.

 

[irishScott]

This is true. Plus, he might decide to nuke Japan or South Korea as our proxy, or even accidentally nuke them while trying to nuke us. Who is going to tell him his rocket can't reach the USA? Much better to tell him it can and did, but the cowardly Americans are covering it up.

Another possibility is that he could launch a nuke into a carrier group. But honestly it's a lot simpler to build a nuke than to build a nuclear-tipped missile and I still think he's more likely to nuke himself than anyone else.

Targeting would still be an issue though. Seoul and most of South Korea would definitely be at risk, but Japan or a carrier group hundreds of miles away? With the tech they've demonstrated thus far, good luck!

 

[werepossum]

Targeting would still be an issue though. Seoul and most of South Korea would definitely be at risk, but Japan or a carrier group hundreds of miles away? With the tech they've demonstrated thus far, good luck!

Yeah, I don't think even with his HE-tipped missiles he has much hope of hitting where he wants. IF he could manufacture nuclear-tipped missiles, though, he has the ability to air blast at moderate altitude and do mega damage with EMP as long as he is within the general vicinity.

 

[sweetca]

The UPS comment was great.

The real issue with N.Korea, Iran, etc., in the long-run, is preventing access to nuclear material. Even these dimwits could eventually build a missule that works. Our biggest concrrn is the nuclear viability of that missile. If N.Korea shot off a nuke at us, yes, we would likely want to toss a few back. But we would essentially be F'ing our ally S.Korea in the process. Not to mention other nearby neighbors. Hell, we would be trashing a large part of our own ecosystem. This is why we are always so damn militant about nuclear componentry; we can't afford to let someone with shit to lose control a nuke.

 

[Olikan]

Dear NK, if you want to nuke something, nuke the congress
Don`t nuke the white house... it is pretty




Mmm, someone knocked the door

 

[jruchko]

Dear NK, if you want to nuke something, nuke the congress
Don`t nuke the white house... it is pretty




Mmm, someone knocked the door

It would hit like 5 members of congress, the rest are too busy taking bribes, or as they like to call it "fundraising".

 

[disappoint]

rets see...Amazon.co.nk

search: nucular warherds.....

none


nope they dun sell umm yet

 

[Jaskalas]

Given the quality of their intermediate range rockets, let alone the long range/ICBM; your concern is highly over-rated

Iran is developing the ICBMs, and North Korea is a trading partner of theirs. In a decade or two, they'll have the capability. Thankfully, by the time this happens we'll be ready to shoot them out of the sky.

 

[sao123]

About the only way they could hope to get a nuke to the White House is by UPSing it. Although I doubt it would be much of a threat once UPS got done with it.

Best! Comment! Ever!