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Originally Posted by blankall
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.
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Perspective.
The Ohio class Sub carries 24 Trident II nuclear missiles. Each missile carry's 8 independently target warheads that can each hit a target within 30 feet, and has a range of 4,000nm. each warhead has a yield of about 4 mega tonnes
That's 192 warheads on one boat and the USA have 14 of these subs alone,If NK ever fired a missile on the USA I suspect nobody would be living there for 50 years.
It's a scary world indeed.