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Originally posted by Spanky
Right now North Korea has the ability to launch a nuclear weapon right where I live. There is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it. If that pyschotic leader of NK has some minor indegestion he can press a button and vaporise half the people that post to this board.
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A lunatic can kill us at any time very easily so shouldn't we try and do everything we can to change that situation no matter how small the chances of success?
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1) Present company excepted, no great loss.
2) No. That's the thinking that has led to too much safety regulation of basically everything.
That said, we demonstrated the practical possibility of missile-to-missile connection 15 years ago, albeit without a high success rate. Tests more recently have shown promise, but a long way to go. In the end, it's not going to be a computer processing power question--we'll have that. It will simply be a mechanical question of being able to direct one speeding missile to catch up to and hit another. (then again, with NK it may be that our chances are better figuring their missiles won't hold together)
BTW, why would NK launch an attack against us? The northern half of the peninsula would be solid rubble in 30 minutes. Japan and SK are the the ones that have to worry.
