Comments | jedi: NO MISSILE SHIELD!

jedi

NO MISSILE SHIELD!

Sep 17, 2009 17:07

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panzerkunst September 18 2009, 04:01:15 UTC

Right, even if one missile get through, that'd be bad news.

seishino September 19 2009, 17:57:50 UTC

I don't know. The Soviets are a worst-case scenario. In 1986 they had 1,400 ICBM silos. If a country like North Korea was attempting to fire off weaponry, their best-case scenario is probably more like 140 silos. Part of the 70-80% statistic was simply being overwhelmed by number of missles, so hitting 140 should be statistically much more do-able. So maybe you lose 2 or 3 major US cities (why nuke Canada and Mexico?). But considering that you've probably saved 200 million lives, that's still an admirable goal ( ... )