rubato wrote:I haven't seen any evidence that the Un-dictator can hit a target as small as one of the Hawaiian islands.
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He could if he bought a Garmin GPS.
Kidding aside, from what I have read the targeting technology is pretty available worldwide--lobbing a missile within a 600 square mile area (assuming it could travel that far without incident) should not be beyond their capabilities. They may not be able o hit a particular hotel, but I would think they could hit the island. Of course, Japan or Guam (I doubt he'd attack S Korea because they could, and would, hit back very hard--who knows what we would do given our current CIC) are easier targets, so why plan that long a flight?
Big RR wrote:Back to the OP, if you think of it, what kind of shelter could you go to on an island the size of Oahu if attacked with nuclear weapons (and even if you could survive the initial attack, would you want to be on a little piece of land contaminated by fallout and about 2500 miles from the mainland (or what's left of it).
That seems to envision a Cold War style massive nuclear exchange with the Russians or the Chinese scenario, which seems pretty remote...
A far more likely scenario, ("likely" being a relative concept here) would be if the second craziest national leader on the planet were for some deranged reason to decide to lob a single ICBM at an American state, and picked Hawaii because it was the easiest one for him to reach...
Under this scenario, there wouldn't be much you could do if you happened to be at ground zero, but short of that presumably there would be some things you could do to help protect yourself against radiation poisoning, etc...
Depending on your distance from the detonation and the size and yield of the weapon...
To say nothing of its actual detonation (BOOM!, boom, or fizzle) and the fact that it being 20+ miles off target is hardly impossible.
Kidding aside, from what I have read the targeting technology is pretty available worldwide--lobbing a missile within a 600 square mile area (assuming it could travel that far without incident) should not be beyond their capabilities. They may not be able o hit a particular hotel, but I would think they could hit the island. Of course, Japan or Guam (I doubt he'd attack S Korea because they could, and would, hit back very hard--who knows what we would do given our current CIC) are easier targets, so why plan that long a flight?
There is currently no data what their missiles are more accurate than the Scuds which were strategically useless in Desert Storm. Recall the complete inaccuracy of Hamas rockets fired at Israel (recent Iranian designs). The reason Iron Dome was useful was that only a few missiles were ever going to hit anything. Thus it was economic to shoot down the relatively few which were on target, even by accident. Firing ballistic missiles accurately is still a very difficult trick. N. Korea's program has been greatly accelerated by hiring out of work Russian rocket scientists.