I hear you and I do follow our anti-missile announcements by the mils. I am not confident of US ability to zoink missiles and warheads in flight-but for the sake of brevity, let me concede your rational point. There are a couple of work-arounds for North K, or anyone else, to do the US severe damage. One is the deployment of North Kor missiles. They are working on miniaturizing warheads for ICBM missiles. Another facet would be to hit the US where it ain't, such as a Gulf of Mexico southern attack. Fuels and warheads would need enough fuel to place a warhead on a south attack approach, and not on the US West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska. Another possibility is to use cargo ships as missile launchers, suitably, disguised. Lastly, there is always the argument about EMP, as the debate with Jon Postrel of MIT and other physicists consider is EMP an Unreal threat or a Real one? On this matter, the lives of many could hang in the balance.
The USA has the capacity to destroy the missile before it even touch the US... USA has not the capacity to do this for all the Russian ICBM *by treaties* not because it's too difficult... USA has enough anti-ICBM to destroy any north korean ICBM who would threaten them... I doubt that North Korea has developed stealth ICBM... Quentin -----Original Message----- From: Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 11:07 am Subject: Re: American Intelligence The USA has the capacity to destroy the missile before it even touch the US... USA has not the capacity to do this for all the Russian ICBM *by treaties* not because it's too difficult... USA has enough anti-ICBM to destroy any north korean ICBM who would threaten them... I doubt that North Korea has developed stealth ICBM... Quentin 2014-06-30 17:01 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com>: Quentin, I am more concerned that if North Korea attacks the US, Obama and his party will do nothing. "It'll just make things worse!" "We cannot risk things getting out of hand." "The entire human species is at stake. We can absorb the damage done and minimize our losses." "We'd be killing their children as well as their leaders, we cannot do this!" This is what I see, in reaction to a Kim Strike. Also, as you rightly mentioned: do you really think that if the USA use nuke against those countries, China and Russia (and others who have the bomb) will do nothing ? lay back and enjoy it, maybe ;-D ? I am more worried about what our elites do than what China and Russia do. I don't see this as a hollow threat, or a paper tiger, Quentin, as this article indicates. Its from Reuters, which is a progressive news agency. I never post stuff from Fox, or some blog, when I engage in polly discussions, because its more meaningful when the news comes from "ones' own." http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/02/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSBREA4102S20140502 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/02/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSBREA4102S20140502 Yes, from what I've read, a local nuclear conflict is pretty sure to escalate to a full blown global nuclear conflict leading to global destruction... do you really think that if the USA use nuke against those countries, China and Russia (and others who have the bomb) will do nothing ? Quentin -----Original Message----- From: Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 10:16 am Subject: Re: American Intelligence 2014-06-30 14:38 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com>: Well, I somehow do remember MAD, and it worked with the Sovs, but I suspect less so with Iran, Isis and North Kor. Do you disagree? Yes, from what I've read, a local nuclear conflict is pretty sure to escalate to a full blown global nuclear conflict leading to global destruction... do you really think that if the USA use nuke against those countries, China and Russia (and others who have the bomb) will do nothing ? Quentin Because all out nuclear war would make large chunks of the planet uninhabitable? -----Original Message----- From: LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sun, Jun 29, 2014 8:39 pm Subject: Re: American Intelligence On 30 June 2014 11:14, spudboy100 via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: I tend to agree with your sentiments, Telmo. My idea, should you care, is that if one goes to war, half measures and quarter measures end up quite badly. If one can achieve peace, justice, and free beer, without doing violence to one's fellow primates, this is a great thing. But it is not assured, that simply because one tries a peaceable track, that it will even work. So, if one fights, why hold back? Because all out nuclear war would make large chunks of the planet uninhabitable? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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