"Now Would Be a Pretty Good Time to Launch a Nuclear..." Topic

…Attack on Russia.

"Russia's space-based early warning system, designed to alert the nation to an inbound nuclear missile attack, is offline, leaving Moscow partially blind to potential intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) attacks.

Since the Cold War, both the US and Russia have used a combination of satellites and ground radars as part of early warning systems to alert their governments to any incoming ICBMs. Russia announced last year that it would be replacing its aging Soviet-designed missile-warning system, which was decommissioned in January, this month. But last week, they announced that the replacement satellites had been delayed by four months.

"Today we are nearly prepared to launch the first satellite into a highly elliptic orbit, the launch of which will take place in November 2015," Major General Oleg Maidanovich, commander of Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces, said Tuesday. Maidanovich, however, did not offer an explanation as to why the launch had been postponed…"
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Never is a good time to launch a nuclear attack!

Apart from the evil involved in such an attack

Russia still have enough Boomers that would survive to retaliate

MAD!

I recommend "The Beach" the book or first movie ( I haven't seen the remake)

Yeah cause getting hit back with 10% of their nukes is 8 times better than getting hit with 80% of their nukes. Math is our friend.

Let's assume that 10% equals ten warheads; a very conservative example.

So, let's imagine this. 20 minutes after we have nuked Russia, The following U.S. cities are hit:

Washington D.C.
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Dallas
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Miami
Boston

Why heck. That's barely getting our hair mussed.

Life in Russia and the United States as we know it will end. We will have turned Russia into a sheet of glass, and they will have nuked us back into the stone age.

But no worries. China will be there to clean up the mess.

There is a reason we never went toe to toe nuclear war with the rooskies.

"Why heck. That's barely getting our hair mussed." Until your wife gets that radiation cancer and all your children alternatively die of starvation and/or freezing during the nuclear winter. (I assume we lobbed quite a few to get the number down to 10% and all that smoke, fallout and ash will eventually get to us.)

Of course, Russia has somewhere north of 8,000 weapons, so 10% isn't 10, but is over 800!

I beleive he was being sarcastic.

Nuking anybody isn't funny or pc, even if it's meant in jest.

I'm in the "'Never' is a good time for nuclear strike" camp.

I do believe a dummy tested a dummy nuke in the US the other day, something called a Breach Bomb? ? That alone heats it up at a nervous time for the Russians, yeah let's make them more suspicious and neurotic than ever before. I do wonder who's in charge in Big Free these days.
Cheers, saw the Beach as an impressionable 14 year old boy was I bummed after that one.

If your talking pro nuclear strike your either sarcastic or ….

I'm all for not being PC………

I'd miss Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, and Miami. Well, not so much Miami.

Zargon – life's a beach! ;-)
When The Beach was made the military's main complaint about the book/film was that it was unrealistic as they didn't have enough nukes to destroy humanity (if not 95% of life on earth).
Within 10 years of that – the world had that many
Within 20 years of that – enough to do so 10 times over.

I just finished re-reading "Red Storm Rising" and while I found Tom Clancy's later works a waste of paper (SSN etc) – his take on where the use of even one Tac nuke against a nuclear opponent will go is spot on.