I saw a rumor and thought i'd bring it back to y'all. let me clear up a few points with it so u don't get scared.
word is CHINA will attack US by NOV elections using "clean nukes".
"clean nukes" are supposedly a nuke that won't poison with radiation but will blast and cause a shockwave thereby destroying and killing. isn't that a bomb? not a nuclear warhead? umm WW2 style pre-A bomb. if it is a "clean nuke" then i'd expect that to b a freaking EMP even if it could blow with no radiation.
the concept has flaws. 1st a few bombs won't destroy the whole country. yes they could take down the metros. but not the hills and mountain regions. not with a shockwave effect, the shock would dissipate as it tried going round the APP's and Rockies.
2nd, why do all that damage to the infrastructure? takes ppl and $$ and time to fix it all. we all should know by now that would take YEARS.
3rd why bomb yourself or your bank?? either way u call it, we are owned by CHINA. CHINA could shut off the supply chain. no meds ,no packaging, and no goods. we'd b screwed. they could collapse the economy at a push of a button and make our dollars worth less than they are now.
4th a "clean nuke", IMO, would more aptly b an EMP. but see point 2 above. take years to repair. course u do have a year to move the transformers across the ocean while the ppl kill themselves off.
5> with no infrastructure there is no food moving back to the ports for CHINA. they gain nothing. they could suitcase nuke DC and accomplish more.
don't b fooled. if someone were to think up such a plan, TPTB would have them suicided quickly. they have plans and do not want the land nuked with or without radiation. there are easier ways to kill ppl without damaging the structures. virus ring a bell? just turn the grid off, no need for EMP. no damage is done. spray the ppl with a bacteria or chem agent via planes.
wake me up when anyone sees AOC painting the train engine green with a rainbow on it.
Quoting: JAZZz50 "Clean nukes" are simply very efficient nuclear weapons that will be airburst over a target leaving almost no residual radiation and creating very little radioactive fallout. Most 21st century nuclear weapons are designed this way, which is why the 1970s "nuclear winter" theory is pretty much dead at this point. The types of weapons that would have caused a nuclear winter don't exist anymore.
As for attacking the United States, they don't need to use a lot of bombs or cause a lot of damage to "destroy" the country.
Picture this scenario: A single 5 megaton Chinese nuclear warhead is airburst 4,000 feet over Manhattan, destroying most of NYC and killing approximately 4 million people in an instant. A few million more will die over the next several weeks.
Beijing signals Washington DC that NYC was the only target and they will not be launching any further missiles. but any attempt at retaliation will result in full nuclear commitment from both the Chinese and the Russians against only the United States. European NATO countries would not be targeted unless they launched nukes of their own, which I'm betting they wouldn't.
The American President is now caught in a catch-22. If he retaliates, the rest of the United States will be completely destroyed. If he doesn't, the United States no longer exists as a military superpower because we will be seen as a toothless tiger, and it no longer exists as an economic superpower due to the immediate crash of the US economy the destruction of NYC would cause. The crash would be global in the short term, but the rest of the world would recover as soon as it became clear that a global nuclear exchange was not going to take place. The United States economy would not recover for years, perhaps decades.
Personally, I don't see this scenario from the Chinese. There's too much random chance factored into such a gamble, and that is not part of the Chinese mindset. Russia? Yeah, possibly. But it would be one hell of a risk.
