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Maine is looking really good, but would you really want to survive this shit?
The odds of a ICBM hitting are low if it comes via air, we'd see it coming and be able to intercept in many cases. It's the land based attacks, like smuggling a dirty bomb in or chemical weapons, that I worry about more.
I have some very bad news for you about our success intercepting missiles. We very much do not have a reliable defence against missiles. We regularly fail interception tests.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/no-us-missile-defense-system-proven-capable-against-realistic-icbm-threats-study/
Yeah I was gonna say this, I have no idea why or how it came to be that people think an ICBM MIRV can be realistically or reliably intercepted.
Some of them?
Maybe, yeah, but... most of them? Hell no.
EDIT: Oh, that commenter said they were stoned when they wrote that. I... guess that is an explanations of sorts.
Yeah good luck intercepting a MIRV
I'm curious to see what other ways you think an ICBM is going to get to the target.
lol yeah I could've phrased that better, kinda stoned.
Fair enough. It gave me a laugh and I had to ask.
Well since it's an inter continental ballistic missile then obviously it could burrow underground as well. Duhhhhh.
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I actually no longer trust that to be true with how many systems and programs were gutted. I suspect we probably dismantled our early warning systems.
If thats not the case, I still question whether or not this administration would let a blue state get hit when they could prevent it just out of spite.
Me personally?
Yes.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
As a life long new jersey citizen I'm glad someone finally finds us important.
Hey, when we rebuild society in 200 years, we can just formally declare the entire state, every square foot of it, to be a superfund site, lol!
Why the hell is Syracuse a civilian target? There's nothing there anymore.
I can't say, not my map, I dunno anything about Syracuse beyond the wiki page.
Which does say its over half a million people in the metro area... Rapid City, South Dakota only has under a 100k, and it gets a nuke.
Could be as simple as: Its got enough people, its a transit crossroads, its far away enough from other larger metros that it gets its own miniature sun, because the one(s) hitting NYC won't reach that far.