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2006-06-26 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve 2006-06-26 10:36|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Would it be wrong of me to snicker?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-26 11:10|| 2006-06-26 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 I chortled a bit myself. Wonder if it's true.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-06-26 11:15|| 2006-06-26 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The type of nuclear weapon they might have is just as important. A groundburst munition used for infrastructure destruction and fallout, but with a narrower hazard area for blast, heat and radiation; or an airburst, that destroys less on the ground, but covers a much larger area, targetting large concentrations in the open.

The trouble in either case is both that mainland China is a very big place, thus requiring a LOT of nukes to be an effective deterrent; and also that Taiwan most likely is ill-equipped to defend its own people from nuclear retaliation.

This would mean that Taiwan would also most likely have a double-secret ABM program, not willing to rely on US Aegis ABM protection.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-26 11:20|| 2006-06-26 11:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder if they have a nuclear device delivery system that would place a device underwater at the downstream end of a 600 km lake......

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-06-26 11:26|| 2006-06-26 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 You know,
you could put somebody's eye out with that thing!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-26 11:51|| 2006-06-26 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 mmmm... Taiwan nukes. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to see them tweaking China's tail.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-06-26 12:20|| 2006-06-26 12:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Psyop to show the Chinese our point of view on the Norks... or maybe not.

Posted by Darrell 2006-06-26 12:55|| 2006-06-26 12:55|| Front Page Top

#8 All they really need is one with the range to hit Beijing. "Candygram for Mister Hu Jintao!"

Posted by Mike 2006-06-26 14:04|| 2006-06-26 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 TW and DB:

Heh.™ :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-06-26 14:15|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-06-26 14:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Rumor was that the flash during the Carter admin was 1/3 Israel, 1/3 South Africa and 1/3 Taiwan.

Flash was suppose to be a neutron bomb.

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-26 15:24|| 2006-06-26 15:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Problem is they don't have an unsafeguarded reactor to produce plutonium, tritium or lithium deuteride.

To deter China with a countervalue strategy probably requires the threatened destruction of say, the five largest Chinese cities.

A 700 kg TN warhead might be 300 kT. Assume 3 warheads per city, assume 1/2 will get through the Chinese S-300 BMD defences. That is 6 warheads per city .. 30 nukes .. 180kg of Plutonium for the weapon primaries and 150 kg of HEU for the secondaries.

Posted by john 2006-06-26 15:58|| 2006-06-26 15:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Walt, Ima hear 8 inch shell and it was the 4th test.... The Vela saw it through a break in the clouds.

Posted by 6 2006-06-26 17:01|| 2006-06-26 17:01|| Front Page Top

#13 That odd sort of scritching sound you hear coming from the Far East is the sound of Mandarin sphincters tightening.

Posted by Zenster 2006-06-26 17:42|| 2006-06-26 17:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Iff the anti-US, pro-OWG DEMOLEFIES > Dubya is a Nixon waiting for a Watergate, andor a Kennedy waiting for an Radical Muslim Oswald, dare HILLARY = JIMBO CARTER, heralding in an unprecedented period of Amer-specific unilateral geopol concessions and weakness in favor of Amer's enemies???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-26 21:23|| 2006-06-26 21:23|| Front Page Top

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