Firstsgt_cap wrote:
Wow, yeah the anti-missile system is non-existent, what the hell do you call patriots????????????????????????????????? NORAD would immediately pick up the launch of an ICBM, get an estimated course and impact location, mean while the president would be boarding Air Force 1 and getting airborne. Patriot missiles would be launched to intercept the ICBM, however as soon as the missile was identified as targeting the U.S., the president would be given options for retaliation, providing he was doing his job, he would authorize the launch of minuteman III missile(s) armed with (a) nuclear warhead(s). At this point NK would have a couple minutes before a large portion of their country reached the temperature of the sun in milliseconds.................................
this is a pritty good discripion of what would happen. even if the pentegon and the white house were destroyed (a senario would never happen unless you have a suicide bomber.) the only way I could think of a nuke going off would be like in the Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. you should read it and find out what happens.
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