NK doesn't have but one or very few nukes. If they are dumb enough to launch they have to know they're dead. So they will go after city with most population, not a military target.

But they will not launch unless we invade them, isn't a death sentence if they launch first strike

Dr Pepper is so damn good

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brs4688 said:

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Military bases would our target. Most likely would leave shipping channel and oil/gas infrastructure intact so they could come and steal it all.

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Exactly. Ft Hood was supposedly on the Soviet's list for a reason.

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This is why I think SA would be high on the list.

Fort Sam Houston
Lackland AFB
Randolph AFB
Kelly Field Annex
Brooks Army Medical Center
Etc

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Respectfully disagree. I appreciate that there are military bases there, a shock to the houston refining sector would be an incredible blow to the nation's energy security.... on top of effecting the refineries it would cripple the pipelines that take motor fuels to east coast and midwest, surpluss product and crude storage, docks etc... Houston would be a much more strategic blow to the US economy and security that San Antonio.

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maybe, but in the big picture Houston is small potatoes in actual refined product production. Lake Charles and Baton Rouge are probably bigger but there are a hundred and twentish refineries all over the country.

I would think if a country is going to make a sweeping attack it would be to military hubs. Prevent or delay the ability to make a counter attack via people, training or weapons/vehicles.

But we are just speculating here.

Edit: two/three of the largest independent refiners in the country have their corporate headquarters in San Antonio in Valero and Andeavor (Tesoro/Western/Nothern refining merged company)

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Lake Charles is smaller. Baton Rouge is smaller. Houston is the home for all the bbls from Texas City to the ship channel. Padd 3 (Gulf Coast) is incredibly important to the motor fuel balances everywhere in the US except the West Coast... and even as the midwest has become more balanced, it would have immediate impacts through the chain.

Also, nuking head quarters doesn't accomplish much other than casualties, at risk of sounding insensitive. Taking out a major refining hub including but not specific to refineries, strategic pipelines and terminals, as well as striking the 4th largest city in the US would be a much more impactful attack than San Antonio.

I am not arguing that I want that to happen but to pretend that San Antonio would be higher on the strike list than a major city that supplies fuels to almost the entire country is ignorant.

Cue up the original red dawn and yell wolverines with your fist in the air!!!

Ragoo said:

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RickSawyer said:

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Ragoo said:

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txyaloo said:

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brs4688 said:

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Military bases would our target. Most likely would leave shipping channel and oil/gas infrastructure intact so they could come and steal it all.

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Exactly. Ft Hood was supposedly on the Soviet's list for a reason.

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This is why I think SA would be high on the list.

Fort Sam Houston
Lackland AFB
Randolph AFB
Kelly Field Annex
Brooks Army Medical Center
Etc

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Respectfully disagree. I appreciate that there are military bases there, a shock to the houston refining sector would be an incredible blow to the nation's energy security.... on top of effecting the refineries it would cripple the pipelines that take motor fuels to east coast and midwest, surpluss product and crude storage, docks etc... Houston would be a much more strategic blow to the US economy and security that San Antonio.

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maybe, but in the big picture Houston is small potatoes in actual refined product production. Lake Charles and Baton Rouge are probably bigger but there are a hundred and twentish refineries all over the country.

I would think if a country is going to make a sweeping attack it would be to military hubs. Prevent or delay the ability to make a counter attack via people, training or weapons/vehicles.

But we are just speculating here.

Edit: two/three of the largest independent refiners in the country have their corporate headquarters in San Antonio in Valero and Andeavor (Tesoro/Western/Nothern refining merged company)

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Houston has the second and fourth largest US refineries with the top dog just up the road in Port Arthur. The ship channel has the largest petrochemical facilities (over 40% of US base chemical production) in the country and one of the largest in the world. It has the largest natural gas facilities in the country.

Taking that out would be devastating to us.

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I'd go to Whataburger and get a #4 and Whata-size the Dr Pepper & fries.

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If it's the location off of Rock Prarie in College Station, you'd die before getting your food.

No one here thinks that an inland target like Texas would be really hard to hit besides me?

We've got multiple types of middle interceptors between the east and west coast and Houston.

If they're gonna be successful at hitting anything, it's be SF or LA, NYC or DC. Central US would, IMO, be almost impossible for them to hit.

Nobody is nuking Austin or San Antonio.

Unless we're talking about all out thermo nuclear war with Russia there's no way a city in Texas besides Houston (Ship Channel and O&G reasons) would be targeted. Possibly Dallas for population reasons.

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I'd go to Whataburger and get a #4 and Whata-size the Dr Pepper & fries.

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Two chicks at the same time followed by a Patty Melt with grilled jalapenos.

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I read something awhile ago that listed ISIS targets in Texas. The panhandle was on there - Amarillo or somewhere up there, along with Houston, DFW, and I don't remember what other major cities. I found it quite funny that San Antonio didn't make the list at all. Even Amarillo was a target, but not SA. We are even the stepchild city according to ISIS. Lol.

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If there's anything I learned from Indiana Jones, it's from the obviously best movie out of the series, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which is:
Hide in a lead-lined refrigerator and ride that bad boy out
Don't let my son ever call himself "Mud" without me ridiculing him

I thought this thread was about North Korea having a limited amount of ICBMs not Russia who will never send their nukes. They know what we got.

But NK is a huge wildcard. They have maybe two and best bet is they have no idea where either of them would land. If at all. But they will eventually

Two chicks at the same time /lawrence

If I don't go out first, time to open the gun safes & load up to prepare for the local idiots searching for opportunity.