Ah, I see.AFAIK the nuke would actually need to be triggered, an explosion would not cause it to detonate, so shooting it down may be a viable option.
Ah, I see.AFAIK the nuke would actually need to be triggered, an explosion would not cause it to detonate, so shooting it down may be a viable option.
Everyone's just reading it wrong. When they said ''We're going to Nuke US'' they really meant ''We're going to nuke ourselves(US)''.
AFAIK the nuke would actually need to be triggered, an explosion would not cause it to detonate, so shooting it down may be a viable option.
Danger with shooting down a nuke, depending on how it's shot down and where people could inadvertently cause an emp(electomagnetic pulse). Definitely need to do something, should they actually do it.Everything has it's consequence though. You avoid detonating the missile in that case, but now you've got enriched uranium just chilling out and causing environmental damage wherever the missile went down. Hopefully over water, but now you're contaminating a pretty big water supply and all of the creatures in it in that area.
Can't fucking win. -_-
Woah that was an interesting read!
Pretty sure it'll be the end of NK.if this is true, how the fuck do the NK think it will end? it will be the end of mankind.
Pretty sure it'll be the end of NK.
Why China getting fed up with NK?
I wish all politics were explained this way. Maybe I could actually understand it.Because of shit like this, pretty much.
I'm paraphrasing someone else's explanation here because it's pretty apt. Imagine global politics is a giant house party, with China showing up. Now, China thinks the US and his broskis are all toolbags, so he brings along a wingman to back him up - that wingman is North Korea. Unfortunately, NK just gets hammered immediately, and every time China tries to woo some ladies, NK starts picking fights with doorknobs and barfing all over the TV. Just being associated with NK is now an embarrassment for China.
Now, China still tries to be a good friend and overlook it as long as he can, but his patience just gets thinner and thinner.
Oh. :/ How long China is trying to befriend with NK?Because of shit like this, pretty much.
I'm paraphrasing someone else's explanation here because it's pretty apt. Imagine global politics is a giant house party, with China showing up. Now, China thinks the US and his broskis are all toolbags, so he brings along a wingman to back him up - that wingman is North Korea. Unfortunately, NK just gets hammered immediately, and every time China tries to woo some ladies, NK starts picking fights with doorknobs and barfing all over the TV. Just being associated with NK is now an embarrassment for China.
Now, China still tries to be a good friend and overlook it as long as he can, but his patience just gets thinner and thinner.
Oh. :/ How long China is trying to befriend with NK?
Everything has it's consequence though. You avoid detonating the missile in that case, but now you've got enriched uranium just chilling out and causing environmental damage wherever the missile went down. Hopefully over water, but now you're contaminating a pretty big water supply and all of the creatures in it in that area.
Can't fucking win. -_-
Actually, a nuke usually uses conventional explosives to ram the nuclear material into place fast/hard enough for it to explode efficiently so the explosion from shooting it down just might make it go off in the air. That said, on a ballistic missile, like what we're talking about here, they actually shoot the missile up into space and then it comes back down on the target. It's likely to be WAY up there when they shoot it down. The explosion itself might not destroy anything but it'll spread nuclear fallout all over the place which, depending on HOW high up it is and how thinly spread out it is, could have other negative effects.AFAIK the nuke would actually need to be triggered, an explosion would not cause it to detonate, so shooting it down may be a viable option.