North Korea
 

As you might have heard on the news lately, North Korea has announced that "a conflict with the capitalistic predators is inevitable." As they have produced plutonium in their fission reactors and violated the UN regulations, it's very likely that they have access to nuclear ballistics.

So what if you woke up one morning, turned on the TV, and heard that NYC, Washington D.C. and Houston are no more? They've been evaporated, and all that's left is a nuclear fallout. Millions and yet more millions of innocent lives are lost, and you would be completely unaffected by it, standing there without even caring, knowing that it's a bad dream. Knowing that it can't have happened. It's just like the WTC, it could not have happened in any way, it was impossible until it actually happened.

Tanks, soldiers and civilians are running down the street in a full-scale panic as the sounds of windows being smashed in ache throughout your ears, people screaming as they steal goods from stores and gunshots are being heard in the panic. You just go back to bed, close your eyes and once more think it must be a really bad dream. Then you realize that you won't wake up, and the world has changed forever. All of this because someone pressed a button halfway across the world.

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Yes, lets just hope that doesnt happen....but someday, some country will be stupid enough to make a nuclear war.

I don't believe North Korea has the capabilites to launch a TBM at the U.S.A., but rather only at its neighboring Countries. U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, and Japan (Not sure, maybe China) are the only nations in the world with that capability. Other nations have Nuclear threats, but not very effective means to carry out those threats.

Indeed, that would be a very distressful day/moment in American (or any Nation's) history. Much would change due to that "button being pressed." Much mayhem, chaos, and mass destruction would result, and not many lives would, or even could for that matter, be spared. Lets just hope this hypothetical situation doesn't take place anytime in the near future.

Actually i think that a nuclear attack on the USA is not impossible for us to be targetted. In fact we are not that powerful if some terrorists were to randomly just attack us. In war it is different but terrorism is something even powerful countries can't widthstand. Personally I think if they were to launch a missle from half way across the world we could intercept it, but it is quite a possibility to take us from the inside and no I don't find it impossible and I fear such an attack happening on the United States, or any other country for that matter.

I agree, they could bring it over secretly and detonate it, but a fact is a fact, they don't have the capability to launch an attack on us from that far away (with nuclear weapons that is).

well...if not us than they could detonate it on some other country which would still cause us (the human race as a whole) to lose millions of lives. What if they attacked bejing or some place like that. It is a very dangerous situation...I don't trust this is something that can be left unattended and I think nato should make this it's topmost priority.

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I thought it was Fat Man and Little Boy?

Those are old ones lol... 'Big Boy' is what i would name the one aimed at North Korea

I recall seeing a show on Discovery over a year ago about terrorism, including various biological and nuclear threats. It turns out that in Russia has "lost" several "suitcase nukes" about five years ago. They are about the size of a backpack, loaded with 1 Mton of fission power (the same as the atom bombs used to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Imagine if someone took a subway train to Washington D.C. from far away, set the timer to one hour and then left the train about one hour before its arrival, leaving the backpack behind. How often do you really think people check out forgotten backpacks on trains while they're moving? Not very often.

any country in the world knows that they couldn't use their nuclear weapons soley because their will be no winner in a nuclear war. the only countries which have armed missiles with over 5000 Km are the USA, UK, France, Russia and China. even if N. Korea is nuclear capable it cannot launch it to any of its enemy (exept for S. Korea). M.J, China is Communist and so is N.K. it won't use nukes against Bejing or what-so-ever. it is a possibility that N.K could smuggle it, but thats not very likely also. what you should be worrying about instead, its the what Bush.Jr said bout the possbility of nuking Iraq if it does strike the U.S, not this silly little piece of crap.

Bush should go to hell..

I remember seeing a show like that. (fuck man dont give them any ideas they're everywhere!)

Well...any nuclear attack should be feared. Nukes are probably the worst things to happen to humanity. The US could probably blow the whole world apart a 1000 times...i dont see why they spend so much on all this when all it does is destroy. The result of nukes being used anywhere would be disastorous. I agree with you strider that we should worry about mr bush nuking iraq, but at the same time i dont consider this whole thing with north korea "a silly little piece of crap"

Mutually Assured Destruction keeps us more safe than it seems.

over 5000Km, not 100 kilometers. >_<

Its not the explosion in the nuke that I would worry about...its the radiation that would plague the zone for years to come..Thats why nukes are so horrible, they are basically bombs that cause Cancer.

nukes are not actually as horrible as they might seem to be. it actually prevent wars between major countries.

A nightmare scenario?

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