Quote Originally Posted by sweetwater View Post
Yeah I'll take them on. A intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by definition has a minimum range of 3400 miles. What difference does it make if a boomer sub get a little closer to the mainland? As far as the Northwest Passage goes the eastern end of it is very shallow. In one place as little as 50 feet. There's no way a boomer could traverse through there without being detected.
Well if you got all the answer then they should make you an Admiral in charge of our countries naval defenses.

The shoreline (less then 50 ft deep doesn't count!

And the time it takes to reach Washington D.C. or any other major city is much shorter the closer the Boomers get to launch their nuclear missiles. Less time means less people get into a shelter. Duh. Just because the range is max 3400 mile doesn't mean that they can't hit their targets faster from a launch that's closer to the target. it might take 30 minutes or more to go from 3400 miles vs 5 minutes from 200 miles off our Eastern Coast.

And the more places the Russians and Chinese have to hide the harder it will be for our nuclear attack subs to kill them before they can launch their missiles. We track them as much as possible and if they have limited areas to roam around the oceans it's easier to keep track of them. Give them more areas to roam around in and to hide and they may just get more missiles launched before we can find them and take them out.

Besides with more ice melted there will be more water in the oceans and the sea levels will rise higher.

And look what's going on down in TX right now with all the extra rain that is caused by Global Warming and the increased amount of energy and evaporation. Evaporation makes it rain more. The more water that's evaporated from the warmer oceans the more it rains. How many homes have to be lost in TX and other places before you figure out what's going on?