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Anyone here watch the TV show Jericho? It came out a few years ago but I just watched the entire series a few weeks ago. One of the best series I have seen on TV, and I recommend it. I won't give the plot away in case anyone here wants to see it, but the basic premise is that nuclear bombs go off in different cities and we watch how the citizens of one small town in Kansas react to the event. With the threat of North Korea looming (seemingly no direct threat to the mainland U.S., but set that aside), I am wondering what people think would happen if a nuclear bomb were detonated in a foreign land (say, South Korea), or what would happen if one were detonated on U.S. soil. Would this scenario lead to the imposition of martial law? Would we see Americans coming together to cooperate, or would we see a rush for power to be consolidated into the hands of a group/person who would serve as de facto dictator? I'm interested in hearing some of your thoughts.
How so? It's hard to tell just how big of a threat North Korea is right now, but it sounds bad. But say they launch a missile that hits Seoul. How would the world change? How would the U.S. change?
The governments of the world would unite and begin a de-militarization program for countries that aren't on the level of USA, Russia, and China.
We should just do a quiet little preemptive assasination of that little ping pong boy. Problem solved, and only one casualty.
We should just do a quiet little preemptive assasination of that little ping pong boy. Problem solved, and only one casualty.
Better yet, we should get China to do it. That way nothing would ever be said.
Right now it's said that North Korea is targeting Tokyo as its #1 target. If that were ever to come to be, what would the likely results? Would there by large-scale economic turmoil due to global markets responding? Would it be a financial mess as nations race to come to the aid of residents of Japan harmed by the explosion and fallout? Or in dealing with damaged nuclear reactors? Would the fallout potentially move across the Pacific to the U.S.? I could see how this could be catastrophic all over and quickly put the world onto the path of a very strange and dire course of events.
