I have been watching the PBS Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series on Vietnam, an hour or so a night. It's riveting, beautifully edited.
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I am aware academic historians have nit-picked it to death, the way they tend to do. But it's engrossing, and paints a dark, dark tale.
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But tonight, watching footage of the riots in Chicago in 1968, I had a darker thought:
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A single North Korean thermonuclear weapon on Honolulu would kill almost 2.5X as many Americans as did the Vietnam War.
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A single North Korean thermonuclear weapon on Los Angeles would kill 3.7X as many Americans as did the Vietnam War.
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Replying to @hukuzatuna
Doesn't matter too much for a "soft" target like Los Angeles, even with low-yield (10-30 kt) warheads.
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Replying to @wellerstein @hukuzatuna
Feel free to explore whatever options one might want to assume:http://nuclearsecrecy.com/missilemap/
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Hmm, you're spot on. Any reasonable CEP doesn't matter.... LA is big enough it gets hit regardless.
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San Jose, too. There are a few areas in the US where you cannot miss if you have the range and any serious yield.
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Replying to @wellerstein @hukuzatuna
If I were a hostile power and had doubts about accuracy, and wanted to just cause pain, those are where I would aim. Huge casualties.
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Of course, I have no real insight into their targeting philosophy. But we can assume they have the same tools available to them.
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