North Korea -- What should be do?
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April 7th, 2017 at 3:20:52 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
Anyone that says nukes will prevent you from being attacked needs to learn history. Every nation with nukes, except N Korea, has been attacked or/and lost a war. What we do not know is what will happen when 2 nuke powers get involved in a war with each other. I have heard that the Pentagon has wargamed India/Pakistan and it always ends up in a nuclear exchange. The President is a fink. |
April 7th, 2017 at 5:58:47 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Of course it does. Do you expect common sense from countries that spend millions on nuclear weapons when they have so much poverty within their borders? |
April 7th, 2017 at 6:32:56 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
Naturally I'll say "So when Hitler was cutting a swath through France, Greece and Russia, the French, Greeks and Russians should have just let the Wehrmacht through and acquiesced to all Nazi demands and terms? After all, no war is ever necessary." And the logical question about the Japanese in China in the same period. Not to mention the Russians invading Finland. It takes two, at least, to make a war. You could always just let an invading army through and allow it to take over. You don't have to fight back. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
April 7th, 2017 at 6:42:54 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
I would not put it under "common sense." It is just about how once things escalate they are hard to de-escalate. For an example, go to YouTube and re-watch the 1980s film, "Countdown to Looking Glass" which I have heard was taken from wargaming. It is the perfect example. The President is a fink. |
April 7th, 2017 at 7:47:03 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4961 |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been wargaming that area since the mid 1990's. I had a friend that worked on that scenario. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
April 7th, 2017 at 3:16:58 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
You mean they have been attacked before they acquired nuclear weapons? I realize that USA has lost the Vietnam war after acquiring nuclear weaons 2 Five nuclear-weapon states under the NPT (non-Proliferation Treaty) 2.1 United States 2.2 Russian Federation (formerly Soviet Union) 2.3 United Kingdom 2.4 France 2.5 China 3 Other states declaring possession of nuclear weapons 3.1 India 3.2 Pakistan 3.3 North Korea 4 Other states believed to possess nuclear weapons 4.1 Israel |
April 7th, 2017 at 3:48:37 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
No, I mean attacked or lost a war after. USA- Lost Vietnam Attacked 9/11, though not a traditional attack USSR Lost Vietnam Misc attacks by breakaway republics Israel Attacked 1967, 1973, 1982, 2000s UK Attacked Falkland Islands China/India/Pakistan Numerous smaller wars amongst each other France Lost Indochina Lost Suez Canal with Brits, not a major attack I concede Could research for more but it has been a tiring week. The President is a fink. |
April 7th, 2017 at 4:12:09 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | Am I the only one who thought it really odd that Japan and South Korea didn't throw a punch when evidence came to light that North Korean agents were kidnapping their citizens, including children? Perhaps the spectre of a tactical nuclear response is enough to keep all of North Korea's neighbors in line. It's like a crack head walking around the mall waving a gun. All the store owners are willing to give him their merchandise, and let him have his way with their employees in the hopes that he will leave them alone. |
April 7th, 2017 at 5:18:52 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
OK, I shouldn't say that the nuclear force prevents attacks. It does prevent an attack that is sufficient to threaten the nation's sovereignty. The motivation for Britain and France to have their own nuclear force has been questioned given that it is assumed that Britain and France would only enter into nuclear war if it was part of a NATO mission. Both nations feel that they need a guarantee that they can exercise purely as a national decision (as unlikely as such a decision would ever be made). In general the use of nuclear weapons to do anything other than prevent a takeover is met with considerable discussion. I will admit that the USA had a nuclear torpedo. The general feeling is that nuclear material does not spread as well in water as in air, so a very limited nuclear option is much more viable (i.e. including removal of cruise missile submarines like Oscar that threaten sea convoys). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar-class_submarine
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April 7th, 2017 at 6:18:13 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
No nation besides the USA has made a nuke on their own without direct assistance or espionage. By this I do not mean AZD and Face read how-to then go to the hardware store and buy a bunch of parts after reading it on the internet. I mean the USA helped the Brits. Probably to have more than one nuke adversary to the Russians, who had the Rosenbergs to teach them. Not sure where France got their help, but they helped the Israelis. France having their own nukes makes some sense as back in the day Warsaw Pact troops could have made it from the GDR to France in days, it happened before. The Brits then still had a large empire to defend. The USSR probably would gladly have helped India to balance China. China then returns the favor to Pakistan. Looking at this pattern, N Korea is still a wildcard. Israel is not balanced, but they are stable. What does N Korea do with a nuke? They do not have the population to occupy any neighbors. Maybe they could take S Korea, but they have to know they would never keep it. They have no navy to be able to work an occupation of Japan. China and Russia are so far out of the question to be laughable. This still leaves what I will call a "Tony Soprano Problem." If you remember the show, Tony did not always want to fight back. He hated his sister but when the Russians slapped her around he had to hit back or "how will it look?" Obviously, a nuke attack means the end of N Korea and everything in it. But how much sabre rattling does a POTUS put up with? Finally, what does N Korea have? Having a "nuke" and a "nuclear weapon" are two different things. Lets say Face and AZD, the two guys here most inclined to try to build things, do go to Home Depot, AMZN, and a few other places and get what we need. We build the nuke, but the thing is the size of a RV! Useless as a weapon! A weapon must be delivered. Even a nuke must be delivered with some accuracy. It has to be small enough to sit on a missile since N Korea has no heavy bombers. Can they do that? Maybe. Maybe not. The President is a fink. |