Quote:DHBirr wrote:Who else? The new POTUS. The thin skinned leader who stated during the election that he sees no reason to not use nuclear weapons. Which was one reason I voted against him. I got skin (my own) in this game. I can easily see him starting WWIII for S&G. What you folks seem to forget is that there are no controls against a POTUS deciding on his own to kick off a nuclear exchange. Once he gives the order, the entire command structure has been designed and trained to follow through. Period.Quote:ordnance11 wrote:Ummm, ordnance, who do you expect to be launching those ICBMs? 'Cause the Ivans are happy as clams with a Trump presidency, and he's perfectly fine with letting them run the Middle East, as long as we get a hefty share of the oil. I doubt that China has anything that can reach all the way to Washington, unless it's launched from the Atlantic.Quote:You're that close to a target? Don't waste your money on a bomb shelter - it won't do you any goodDon't you mean right at ground zero? Because all of D.C is one big fat target. You got the White House, Pentagon and Andrews AFB in the same area. When you have enough warheads, why not go for overkill? I expect at least 2-5 megaton multiple MIRV's. Whether the shelter does any good depends on the day or time of the day ICBM's gets launched. If it's late afternoon local or the weekend, it's useful. During the workday, well the workplace was designated as a shelter in the 50's so just go to the lowest level (how low I'm not gonna tell) and should be able to ride it out. Unless they decided to launch a ground penetrator nuke. What happens after the strike is gonna be interesting.
So the next terrorist attack the comes around, any takers that Trump won't decide to launch a nuke in exchange? So if Hezbollah does something to us, he takes out Tehran? Because there are better ways of retaliation.
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