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gregster says
all of your intellectual answers to this question are amusing
ZROWE says
We destroy the missiles in mid air then send in the marines to destroy the stupid SOBs who were dumb enough to attack the US.
Jofas says
Submarines would surface and counter launch. Our land based nuclear silo's would be taken out if China or Russia struck Yellowstone and caused the SuperVolcano to erupt, burying our nuclear silos.
Our B-2 bomber is irrelevant as we hired a guy from India to work for Northrup Grumman to build the B-2 and he sold the B-2 designs to China. He's on trial in Hawaii right now, Noshir Gowadia. He also designed China stealth cruise missiles and China could possibly nullify our carrier battle groups.
That's what we get for bringing in foreigners to work in our Defense Labs on very important military hardware. We lose.
Right now we have a 73 ship Naval Armada from many nations off of China's coast poking a stick in the hornets nest.
L. Lawliet says
The end of the Human race and most other forms of earth life because the only way they wouldn't be destroyed is if they annihilated us completely throwing the world into a nuclear winter.