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All it takes is one large drone with a briefcase nuke to take out everything. Or if they wanted to do it more covertly with a more plausible cover story, a weat
by rekabis 5y ago
All it takes is one large drone with a briefcase nuke to take out everything. Or if they wanted to do it more covertly with a more plausible cover story, a weather balloon. It wouldn’t even have to take out the infrastructure with physical damage, the EMP from the airburst detonation from anywhere in the vicinity (5-500km up, although directly above at 1-5km would be ideal) would be enough to fry most circuits in the complex.
So something like this would be eminently possible for any sufficiently-motivated nation-state coughCHINAcough to pull off.
- blowski 5y agoThis is covered by the “you’ll have bigger problems” argument.
- hirsin 5y agoThe AZs are generally spaced far enough apart to withstand this. While rumor was that this is specifically done with your scenario in mind, it may also be a happy coincidence for grid and other infrastructure resilience.
- cyber_kinetist 5y agoWhy would China be in the interest to do this? The Chinese politburo would definitely not like a world war right now, they know that it will halt the flow of global trade and would also fuck them up immediately. Unless they are planning to mobilize their entire country towards war (which is not happening), I'm not seeing this happen in the near future. (Unless a major economic depression happens, leading to economic instability and unrest in both China and the US, which leads them into nationalism and military mobilization and eventually war... History repeats itself yada yada.)
- redis_mlc 5y agoXi wants Taiwan, he knows Biden is soft and alienated our EU allies, and there's an arms race in the region. The best time is while Biden is in office. Xi does not want to risk dealing with Trump again.