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Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot
Nuclear EMP. China, Russia, or North Korea could do it. You can shut the entire country down with one weapon at the right altitude. It could even be in a satellite in low-earth orbit.

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Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot
You're assuming that there is a clear source location. There are a couple of ways to potentially get around that:

1. Launch a SLBM from a submarine
2. Launch from a ship (you may even be able to use something like a SCUD)
3. Have a nuclear weapon that's already in orbit (assuming the satellite is not tracked) - or maybe even something like an "undisclosed payload" launched by another country or private organization?
4. ICBM launched independantly by a non-government

Those are scenarios where you might get sucker punched and not know for certain who the attacker is.

Key military infrastructure is hardened. Most everything else is not.

Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jan 21, 2017

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