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They may have nukes but not our caliber of nukes. Them going toe-to-toe with us is BS and even they know it.
Four major things are needed to make this kind of nuke effective: range, yield, accuracy, and reliability. First, I think they are being pretty optimistic about their range capabilities. Secondly, I doubt they have the knowledge to produce high yields while maintaining a low weight. An RV/RB isn’t like a bomb, you can’t make this thing weight a ton and still have any reasonable range. It’s physics. Finally, they haven’t done nearly enough testing to really learn what they need to in order to produce highly accurate and reliable weapons systems. Sure, you can add in redundancy but your back to the weight and range issue. You can overcome three of these with quantity but they probably don’t have what they need and we shouldn’t let them make any more for that reason.
Perhaps we should restart our underground testing again to show them and the world we really mean business on this issue. They don’t seem to take our JTA tests seriously because it doesn’t produce a mushroom cloud at the end. We also don’t really advertise those tests.
Say NK tries to attack us and our missile defense system was up and running and stopped the attack, I think we would still have to respond in kind or else it would open the door for others to do the same in the future. The hell with collateral damage at that point, you’re setting a precedent. I wonder if Washington at the time would think on the same lines.
NK is a good reason we should have never canceled the RNEP program. It just opened the door for this kind of behavior. But that’s a whole different topic.
Just my thoughts…
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