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I found it to be a poorly researched and implausible bit of hysteria. It's a sophomoric reddit post. The entire thing hedges on 1. US launching only a handful
by andbberger 2y ago
I found it to be a poorly researched and implausible bit of hysteria. It's a sophomoric reddit post.
The entire thing hedges on
1. US launching only a handful of mid course interceptors and they all fail, Aegis/SM-3, the most mature ABM system is not even mentioned. If I were the US DOD I would keep an Arleigh-Burke parked outside of North Korea at all times.
2. A North Korean submarine makes it to the coast of California without being tailed and isn't immediately destroyed by a sub after the initial salvo.
3. Russia keeps their phone on silent while nuclear war breaks out
I don't lose sleep over this
- OgsyedIE 2y agoIt also has a gigantic pile of obvious errors about how the operational principles and communication chains differ for solid fuel rockets compared to liquid fuel rockets in launching and observing countries. You don't even need to go through coercive diplomacy papers or arms control books for this stuff, there are detailed primers for it on the likes of Globalsecurity.