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Playing armchair general here, but I wonder what's the playbook if Russia decides to conduct a nuclear weapon "experiment".
Any launch regardless of trajectory will be considered act of war against the world. There will be no warning shots here.
The days of mutually assured destruction is actually over. In the time needed for the ICBMs to reach targets on another continent is enough time to intercept those missiles. Obviously neighbours like Finland and Ukraine on the otherhand are problematic. I hope the best for them. Many missile defense systems have been worked on, sattelites with high powered lasers, planes with high powered lasers, intercepting missile…
The converted Boeing 747 airborne laser was a colossal failure and would have only been able to target a missile nearby in its boost/launch phase. It's now dismantled.
You think you can send fighters to gun down an icbm MIRV in its re-entry phase? Seriously?
Time to ask HN: how do you want to spend the last days of your life?
Plan is to paint my hallway and staircase today. Family is coming over.
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This is more serious than you think. Putin thought that, by now, he'll be already controlling the capital and setting a new puppet government. He is clearly losing the war (he was looking for quick toppling of the government). Putin is in a very bad situation right now. And having his nuclear "deterrents" in high-readiness doesn't help.
Not only that. European countries are keen on giving Kiyv more weapons [0], which is what Putin has been warning against. [0] https://twitter.com/Bundeskanzler/status/1497632817450266632
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In the past we took such warnings seriously. I think that was wise.
In the past we saw how decades of nuclear tension passed by without a single bomb dropping. I don't think anyone has a real appetite for nuclear war.
Playing armchair general here, but I wonder what's the playbook if Russia decides to conduct a nuclear weapon "experiment".
Launching a missile to explode over the ocean to show resolve to use nukes. Next, launching a missile to explode over some Alaskan waste, if the previous step doesn't induce NATO to start the negotiations. Something like that.
Nuclear weapons create huge EMP bursts which disrupt communications. One popular type of theoretical first strike is to detonate one or two missiles in the atmosphere to cause confusion, then follow up with the main salvos while peoples' main sensors and communications are blind.
Playing armchair general here, but I wonder what's the playbook if Russia decides to conduct a nuclear weapon "experiment".
>Playing armchair general here, but I wonder what's the playbook if Russia decides to conduct a nuclear weapon "experiment". Any launch regardless of trajectory will be considered act of war against the world. There will be no warning shots here.
There are more options available to US than just "fire all the missiles".
Putin is full of hot air. I believe with how this is going, one of his advisors or generals will kill him before allowing him to actually fire nukes and initiate MAD. These people might be ok letting him play war in the Ukraine but inviting annihilation from the rest of the world? I'm not so sure. But then again, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of rational behavior coming out of Putin's Russia.
I fear that anyone inside Russia, that could be in a position to topple him has been silenced long ago. At this point, he is trenched in like Stalin.
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>Playing armchair general here, but I wonder what's the playbook if Russia decides to conduct a nuclear weapon "experiment". Any launch regardless of trajectory will be considered act of war against the world. There will be no warning shots here.
That's not true. There are more options available to US than just "fire all the missiles".
I mean any launch by Russia will be declaration of war on everyone.
I don't know the effectiveness of stopping these nukes with missile defense. I suspect the USA has multiple plans that they expect to be effective.
Time to ask HN: how do you want to spend the last days of your life?