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2013-04-13 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by tipper 2013-04-13 18:04|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Yup, looks like Austin made the cut....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-04-13 18:35|| 2013-04-13 18:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Is it wrong to think the country would be better off without many of these places?

Posted by Titus Ulans4144 2013-04-13 19:02|| 2013-04-13 19:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Very simplistic analysis. Simply going by population? Come on, No.18 Detroit. It's already imploding. Talk about a waste of resources.

Is it a oneie or twoies rather than MAD? MAD means having to take out the sea based retaliatory capability. There is only one technically capable of attacking some of that. Anyone else is SOL. One or a handful will have have to be very selective for very obvious reasons. Rational targets will be restricted to political, key command and control centers, and key infrastructure/resource points. Pure terror targets have to be culturally high profile which would include NY, LA, DC, not flyover country. Then there are NIMBY targets not near major metro areas.

What could you deliver and by what means. What is the size of your system. If it's small enough to smuggle inland, it's not going to take out whole metro areas. Ports are better targets for infiltration delivery.

If you're delivering by missile, what is the accuracy of your system. Think terrain. A mile or so off could put the round on the opposite side of a mountain obstruction. Nagasaki's terrain mitigated the full effect that was witnessed in Hiroshima.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-13 19:39|| 2013-04-13 19:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't give a f*ck, as long as they hit D.C. and surrounding areas with a several megatons. We'll rebuild.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2013-04-13 20:43|| 2013-04-13 20:43|| Front Page Top

#5 All right. Everybody sing along, please.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2013-04-13 20:44|| 2013-04-13 20:44|| Front Page Top

#6 ROFLMAO!

Thanks for that video, Eric.

I'd forgotten about that song, though the words and the tune came back once he started.

I'd also forgotten how much fun it is to see Lehrer perform. His facial expressions are hilarious! He was a tresure.

:-D

Posted by Barbara 2013-04-13 20:54|| 2013-04-13 20:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Barbara, I once watched the end of a game of "Nuclear War" ("Have you change for 25 million people?") when somebody managed to hit the stockpile with a 100 megaton bomb. Everybody cheered, and marched arouind the table giving their finest rendition of "We Will All Go..."

By the way, for those of you wishing for DC to be nuked, please note that I live in the area. Barbara lives in the area. Fred works in the area!

Posted by Eric Jablow 2013-04-13 21:10|| 2013-04-13 21:10|| Front Page Top

#8 ...So let's just keep it in our imagination or computer/console.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-13 21:16|| 2013-04-13 21:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah yes - the game of Nuclear War! What fun. Used to play it in college. One time a girl asked us to stop because her boyfriend ( who was not playing) was getting upset because we were having so much fun.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-04-13 23:03|| 2013-04-13 23:03|| Front Page Top

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