08-18-2017, 12:10 AM
(08-16-2017, 09:35 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(08-14-2017, 09:28 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(08-14-2017, 04:58 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Removing Kim's nuclear capabilities without removing his regime is an impossible task.
Can you clarify - in what way do you think it's impossible? Are you talking about the technical issues of identifying and destroying the sites and launchers, or are you talking about the political issues of who does what afterwards?
What I mean is that we aren't dealing with a unintelligent population chained to a medieval superstition like say Iraq or Libya.
Can the US destroy the sites? Probably. But I fully imagine that he has his nuclear scientists well protected and that as soon as he thinks its remotely safe they will be back to producing fissile material to make warheads.
The problem isn't so much physical as it is intellectual, unless you have a bomb that can make a population with a mean IQ around 105 to have a mean IQ around 85.
Sure. But it takes time to rebuilt nuclear reactors to produce plutonium, and enrichment plants for bomb grade uranium. Those can be destroyed faster than they can be rebuilt. Nuclear weapons take good scientists, but they require a production infrastructure.
