Did the US get nuked?
The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the separate bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II….Nuclear weapons of the United States.
| United States | |
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| NPT party | Yes (1968) |
Will there be sanctions if the US goes to nuclear war?
In the event of a nuclear strike on the United States, no one will be saying anything about sanctions. No, no one likes nuclear war. But the US would use that attack as justification for a full-on nuclear assault. There will be no briefings to the UN or drawn-out media interviews. No one is going to ask permission.
What would happen if North Korea detonates a nuke in America?
North Korea somehow detonating a single nuke in an American city (or even a few) would likely result in a conventional response. Nuclear retaliation would risk escalation with China. Indeed. Look at the response to the attacks on September 11th, 2001. and the United States likely wouldn’t just lob a bunch of nulcear weapons back at the offender.
What would happen if there was a nuclear war in the world?
It would a terrible, terrible waste of human potential and a moral travesty. Any nuclear attack anywhere in the world would expose the hollow progress of human civilization, that despite all of the technology and medical advancements made over centuries, humans in the twenty-first century are as primitive as cavemen.
What would happen if a mad capable state nuked a US city?
If a single US city was nuked by a MAD capable state, lets say killing 1\% of the population, the response would not be as easy as the doctrines may suggest. The main issue here is that by pursuing a hardline large scale nuclear retaliation the president would be guaranteeing additional nuclear strikes against US and the death of the other 99\%.