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I hope Finn's belief that we won't use nukes at any juncture is correct.

Yeah, it's not like the US is the only country to have ever done this evil a deed, twice, with plans for many more deeply evil deeds, is it?

The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced that North Korea is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

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Respectfully disagree. Cruise missiles can take out anti-aircraft while simultaneously launching moab's... That's just one scenario.

Cruise missiles can only destroy known locations. Not useful against mobile radar/SAM sites. Not useful against fixed sites that we don't know about.

MOABs are simply not powerful enough to instantly kill an entire country before they have any chance to react. If North Korea manages to destroy Tokyo (or Chicago) while we are still in the process of destroying them, we'll have failed.

Don't usually disagree, but....

We'd have use of the satellites we have in stable orbit over N. Korea to mark each and every piece of artillery they have. Each of those would be marked and tracked and assigned how ever many cruise missiles needed to take them out.

We would jam their radar and communications and take 90-95% of those threats out within an hour.

I am pretty sure that if we decide to do any kind of strike it will be rapid and overwhelming.

How did life begin?

What is consciousness?

Is time travel possible?

TOKYO — North Korea accused President Trump on Friday of “making trouble” with his “aggressive” tweets, amid concerns that tensions between the two countries could escalate into military action.

Tensions have been steadily mounting in recent weeks, as North Korea prepares for what it is calling a “big” event to mark the anniversary of the founder’s birthday Saturday, while the Trump administration warns that all options are on the table.

Expectations for a nuclear test or missile launch in the lead-up to Saturday’s celebrations in Pyongyang have not come to pass. Instead, there are signs that the regime is getting ready to hold a huge parade this weekend, perhaps showing off new missiles — something that would qualify as the “big” event it had heralded.

The United States has sent an aircraft carrier strike group to the Korean Peninsula region, and Trump has repeatedly tweeted that if China won’t use its leverage to rein in North Korea, the United States will act.

physical evidence which underlies the anthropogenic greenhouse gas hypothesis.

Then I hereby bequeath France with America's leadership role when it comes to Climate Change. Show us how it's done!

We'd have use of the satellites we have in stable orbit over N. Korea to mark each and every piece of artillery they have. Each of those would be marked and tracked and assigned how ever many cruise missiles needed to take them out. We would jam their radar and communications and take 90-95% of those threats out within an hour. At the same time, anti-missile technology (patriots or other) would be tracking anything coming over the border.

I am pretty sure that if we decide to do any kind of strike it will be rapid and overwhelming.

“The United States and South Korea and North Korea are engaging in tit for tat, with swords drawn and bows bent,” Wang said at a news conference after a meeting with visiting French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, Xinhua reported. “We urge all parties to refrain from inflammatory or threatening statements or deeds to prevent irreversible damage to the situation on the Korean Peninsula.”