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To: Laserman
Unfortunately, the NK have missiles that can reach Alaska and soon will have missiles that can reach most of the continental US.

So they say. Keep in mind that even right up until the fall of the Soviet Union, the USSR never had any guidance systems that actually worked. The best they could hope for was to aim at Washington and maybe hit New York. The only real threat was from Soviet subs.

Although, all these a$$holes need is one in a suit case and a ride across the Rio Grande.

244 posted on 10/08/2006 8:39:50 PM PDT by txroadkill
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To: txroadkill

Odds are that the device is a pretty big one in physical size. Way too big for a missle and certainly too big for a suit case.


255 posted on 10/08/2006 8:42:19 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (All your instant messages belong to us!)
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To: txroadkill
Keep in mind that even right up until the fall of the Soviet Union, the USSR never had any guidance systems that actually worked.

Actually, by the late 1980's the Soviet SS-17, SS-18 and SS-19 missiles finally got modern guidance systems that got their warhead impact accuracy within under 150 meters circular error of probability (CEP). That made them very frightening first strike weapons, since the SS-18 in some versions carried a 25 MT nuclear warhead, and under 150 meters CEP with such a powerful warhead would have easily taken out SAC headquarters south of Omaha, NE or NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain facility.

268 posted on 10/08/2006 8:46:24 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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