[Malsua]

We currently prevent EMP attacks by assuring the nuclear destruction of any country that launches one against us.

And who do you nuke if a container ship with a Liberian flag lights one off 50 miles off the NJ shore and air bursts it over south Jersey taking out the Northeast corridor?

[RFEngineer]

“And who do you nuke if a container ship with a Liberian flag lights one off 50 miles off the NJ shore and air bursts it over south Jersey taking out the Northeast corridor?”

Pick someone and nuke them. Or several someone’s.

It would be better that we publish the list in advance.

Life isn’t fair, and the rest of the world would then know what could happen to them if they do this.

It’s similar to the “Doomsday bomb” in Dr. Strangelove.

[Hacklehead]

“And who do you nuke if a container ship with a Liberian flag lights one off 50 miles off the NJ shore and air bursts it over south Jersey taking out the Northeast corridor?”

All of the usual suspects.