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Originally Posted by nik-
haha, MAD only applies when both of the countries have more that 3 devices. Basically if NK launched a nuke at the US it would fail and splash down 200 km east of Japan.
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Not to mention that the nukes NK has are pretty pathetic. They'd be capable of destroying a few city blocks. The US's advanced thermonuclear weapons are of an entirely different scale.
The estimates for the NK bombs thus far put it in the 6-7,000 TNT ton equivalent. Modern American nukes. In the 60s, the US and the USSR had bombs about 10,000 times more powerful than that. No one really knows what they have now, but it's doubful the US would waste a newer bomb on N. Korea, in the event of full out nuclear war. They'd probably just unload a small portion of their 5000+ inventory.
Get Russia or China involved and it's another story. I can't see them backing N. Korea at this point though.