On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:33:30 -0500, Robert Kolker wrote:

I would challenge you to devise a scenario for a nation that contains
an aresenal of viable tacitical nuclear missles to be destroyed.
Especially one that has can deploy these missles in subs or in secure
silos.

There is no such things as a "secure" silo. Modern military maxim: What can
be seen can be destroyed. This is just as true about nuclear war as any other
type of modern combat.

No viable system has ever been deployed to stop an inbound
nuclear missle with 100% accuracy and no stratedgy could made could
hope to take out all of an exisisting nuclear power's missles, silos,
and submarine based weapons.

Depends on how many they have. And "destroyed" doesn't mean that all the
opposing nukes are neutralized. A US first strike on say, North Korea, could
put 90% of the entire nation under 10 psi overpressure.

For all intents and purposes, North Korea would be destroyed, even if a few
thousand people managed to survive the attack they would hardly be a "nation"
anymore. The fact that they could potentially fire a few nukes back at us
hardly negates the fact that the nation of North Korea would only exist as a
memory.