That seems to be the thinking of at least one Chinese “admiral” who delivered some rather incendiary remarks at a recent military conference. (We’ll get back to why “admiral” is in scare quotes in a moment.) Chinese Rear Admiral Lou Yuan suggested that if the United States doesn’t mind its manners, they will need to sink a couple of our aircraft carriers just to put us in our place. (news.com.au)
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This Chinese Admiral should do the math:
14 Ohio Class ballistic missile carriers
24 Trident II missiles per sub
12 MIRV warheads per Trident (reduced by treaty, but do you feel lucky?)
475 Kt yield per W88 warhead (for comparison, Nagasaki bomb was 15 Kt)
4,032 very bad days
Or one Rod from God into the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze. For a non-nuclear “What? How did THAT happen!?”