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kleinbl00 · 2680 days ago · link · · parent · post: North Korea missile test shows it could reach New York, say experts
Let's not lose our shit- those Scud missiles we all made fun of during Deseet Shield have a range of 700 km. The Jupiter missiles that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis had a range of 2400km and we had to destabilize the world and put them in Turkey to make them useful. At best, North Korea has a Fat Man or a Little Boy, and getting that size payload out to a thousand miles takes about an Atlas 5, not a Scud. Assuming you'd want to.