On Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 12:41:41 PM UTC-5, Stuf4 wrote:
From Scott M. Kozel:
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No you would not. The shuttle would provide only a very limited first strike that would impact a very limited area, leaving about 99% of the
Soviet first strike assets intact, whereby in about 30 minutes they would be impacting all over the U.S. Not a feasible idea, IMHO.

Perhaps you did not see my reply to David two days previous to yours here..

And even is someone has the full plan explained to them, it's easy to picture them giving all kinds of reasons why such a plan would not work.

Consider these trick plays in football:

"Greatest Trick Plays in Football History"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj8G9dGuNkU


There was a coach somewhere who dreamt up these plays. And there were probably people around that coach saying why these plays will never work. Yet they were tried. And they worked.

I have seen that video in the past, and there is no comparison between a football play designed to score 6 points, and some kind of one-shot nuclear trick against a nuclear superpower who will rain down thousands of A-bombs and H-bombs all over your nation. You would be committing suicide, national suicide.

Regarding your comments about nobody having ever tested a ICBM shot with a nuclear warhead, it would be too risky because the missile could go off course or maybe even come down in your own country.

Likewise nobody has ever tested a cobalt bomb. A cobalt bomb would blow up one third of the world, so there is no place to safely test one.