"California Is Preparing For A North Korean Nuclear Attack" Topic

"With U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un trading insults and threatening war, California officials are taking the threat of nuclear exchange seriously.

Noting the heightened North Korean threat, the Los Angeles-area Joint Regional Intelligence Center issued a bulletin last month warning that a nuclear attack on Southern California would be "catastrophic" and urged officials in the region to shore up their nuclear attack response plans.

The report cites North Korea's late July test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that could, in theory, reach the West Coast of the United States. "North Korea's propaganda videos feature ruins of San Francisco and Washington," the document says…"
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It's sad to see that what was the past is now rearing its ugly head again…

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More like a few agencies are talking about it -- but there is no preparation that I am aware of in my little swathe of the San Francisco Bay Area. Heck, I think San Francisco has barely just realized that ALL of their First Responders live far away from the city because of insanely high housing costs. They will only be able to count on the emergency staff on duty in the city should an earthquake hit. So Sf isn't really even ready for a 'quake, let alone a North Korea nuke should something that horrific happen.

If he fires his 1 or 2 missiles that can reach L.A. and the counter missiles don't do there job, I'm thinking the Fall line may take a turn for the better.

Noting the heightened North Korean threat, the Los Angeles-area Joint Regional Intelligence Center issued a bulletin last month warning that a nuclear attack on Southern California would be "catastrophic"

How insightful….

He can't fire his misses until he completes all the permit applications and turns in an environmental impact statement. That should take a decade or so in good old cali

At times I wonder if this is "the year of the shark" all over again.

In other words, maybe NK isn't the foreign country we should really be worried about.

Dan
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But are his missiles accurate enough yet to actually hit California? If he aims at SF or LA might the missiles actually hit the Aleutians instead? In fact do they have accurate enough maps even?

Didn't one of the West Coast universities Nuclear War plan involve suicide pills?

I know my nuclear war plan boils down to

"Die, probably horribly, in the aftermath of Russian nuclear strike on Defence Ministry base Kineton"

As a Californian I am preparing for the North Korean missile threat by watering the plants, replacing a ceiling fan, and trying to find the leak on my exhaust manifold. then it's time for lunch!

I don't mean to be political, but I sometimes feel like some of my fellow Californians enjoy overreacting to Trump. While I know them to be intelligent people, they take some colorful utterance, which some might feel is provocative but empty, and put the most alarming spin on it. So of course they're getting ready for a rain of nuclear missiles. Of course they are.

I feel safe for three reasons:

1) Putting a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile is hard.
2) China does not want to live with the consequences of an attack on the US.
3) Aegis + SM-3.

Californians have real problems to worry about.

+1 Andrew Walters. I still have friends in San Diego, and still keep in touch with most of them through FB. I have one particular friend who thinks Trump is the harbinger of doom, and loves to argue his POV every chance he gets. But the higher taxes, budget woes, bond rates tanking? Pssssshh!