"Ooh, gee... The North Koreans wil NEVER figure out how to build a parachute!"
Oh gee dummy,
you are the one that said, and I quote:
"A mid-air on-target detonation would require very sensitive timing, so presumably it would be impact-triggered, and therefore ground-level."
and then you told us that this ground level detonation would, and again, I quote:
"result in only hundreds of deaths,"
So, you continued, we should attack North Korea now
before they improve their technology to the point where in the future they could kill "tens of millions" of us with a mid-air detonation.
So, if our casualties would be reduced from tens of millions to a few hundred because North Korea is unable to determine
when to detonate their incoming warhead
how is it now possible for them to release a parachute on their incoming missile at the proper time when you have already stated that they are currently unable to determine this proper time? Logically speaking, you're sort of stepping all over your toes here Dangus.
I'm not even going to go into your stupidity of conflating the difficulty of deploying a parachute from a missile at incoming terminal velocity with deploying a parachute from a bomb dropped from an airplane since I think you have already embarrassed yourself enough with your war mongering idiocy on this thread. Have a nice day.
Wow! You just can’t let your stupidity rest, can you?
Nowhere did I say that triggering was the ONLY problem North Korea could “improve” on. In fact, any damned idiot could presume that given more time, North Korea could produce more nuclear weapons, and thus kill more people. And I specifically mentioned the cumulative effect of hundreds of warheads instead of just one.
And uh, yeah... actually some missiles DO use parachutes. Since they increase the weight of the payload, they probably wouldn’t be an ideal technique since the North Koreans are struggling to increase their missiles’ range, but the point is that it’s incredibly simple in a thick-atmosphere environment to make impact survivable to a nuclear warhead.
And yes, a small warhead landing randomly would almost certainly strike where there were very few homes within the lethal radius, which, in the case of Hiroshima, was not much more than a mile. HUNDREDS of warheads, which was what I referred to, could kill millions or even tens of millions.
I’m done now. Humiliate yourself further if you want.