How would USA respond to a Russian nuclear attack on Great Britain?

[Man of Ethics]

Who says? Orthodox Chrsianity?

Yes -- Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece are of great value to Russia due to Orthodox Christianity. UK is of great value to USA due to ancestry of most Americans and common language.

 

[GLASNOST]

In my opinion, Russian generals should know that American experts know that citizens of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece are as valuable to Russia as Russia's own citizens.

Fantasy. Anyway, are you talking about:

• Your opinion?
• What Russians should know?
• What American experts know?
• What Russians should know about American experts?

 

[GLASNOST]

Yes -- Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece are of great value to Russia due to Orthodox Christianity. UK is of great value to USA due to ancestry of most Americans and common language.

This is silliness.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yes -- Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece are of great value to Russia due to Orthodox Christianity. UK is of great value to USA due to ancestry of most Americans and common language.

I think you are living under a false premise.

 

[22lcidw]

Great Britain isn't a threat to anyone, other than the Jews and women who are unfortunate enough to live there.

Throughout the planet though there are people who over generations still talk of the United Kingdom as the UK (you kay) when they were the power. Their financial district today is powerful.

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

I was thinking about a response which many Americans would consider unethical. It is well known to American strategists that Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece are of great value to Russia. 1999 Bombing of Serbia was a very traumatic event for Russia.

Would USA be willing to do the unthinkable to avenge a nuclear attack on UK and deaths of millions of America's closest allies?

The world was on a much closer verge to extinction during the Cuban missile crisis. We will get past this.

 

[j-mac]

This is all fantasy anyway....Nothing like this would happen....Not really worth posting to, other than to say that.

 

[georgephillip]

Sadly this validates the theory of Russian generals that Russia can launch a massive nuclear attack on UK with impunity.

In my opinion, Russian generals should know that American experts know that citizens of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece are as valuable to Russia as Russia's own citizens.

Imho, we should distinguish between a Russian nuclear attack on GB vs a massive Russian nuclear attack on GB; a response to the latter would likely end humanity on this planet.

The 13 day conflict in 1962 over Soviet missiles in Cuba is the closest the world came to a full-scale nuclear war during the Cold War period.

40 years later a conference in Havana revealed how a Soviet submarine armed with a 15-kiloton nuclear torpedo nearly used that weapon on US aircraft carrier.

If that carrier had been destroyed in 1962, perhaps the leadership on both sides would have agreed upon a single US nuclear retaliation on a Soviet military asset of equal value; or not.

I remember this event from my childhood, and I don't see leaders in DC or Moscow today with the same stature as JFK or Nikita Khrushchev in 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia

"What may have been the most dangerous moment in the crisis was not recognized until the Cuban Missile Crisis Havana conference in October 2002, which marked its 40th anniversary.

"The three-day conference was sponsored by the private National Security Archive, Brown University and the Cuban government and attended by many of the veterans of the crisis.

"They learned that on 27 October 1962, a group of eleven United States Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph had located a diesel-powered, nuclear-armed Soviet Project 641 (NATO designation Foxtrot) submarine, the B-59, near Cuba.

"Despite being in international waters, the Americans started dropping practice depth charges to attempt to force the submarine to surface.

"There had been no contact from Moscow for a number of days and the submarine was running too deep to monitor radio traffic, so those on board did not know whether war had broken out.

"The captain of the submarine, Valentin Savitsky, had no way of knowing that the depth charges were non-lethal 'practice' rounds, intended as warning shots to force him to surface.

"Running out of air, the Soviet submarine was surrounded by American warships and desperately needed to surface. While surfacing, the B-59 “came under machine-gun fire from..."

 

[kyzr]

Imho, we should distinguish between a Russian nuclear attack on GB vs a massive Russian nuclear attack on GB; a response to the latter would likely end humanity on this planet.

The 13 day conflict in 1962 over Soviet missiles in Cuba is the closest the world came to a full-scale nuclear war during the Cold War period.

40 years later a conference in Havana revealed how a Soviet submarine armed with a 15-kiloton nuclear torpedo nearly used that weapon on US aircraft carrier.

If that carrier had been destroyed in 1962, perhaps the leadership on both sides would have agreed upon a single US nuclear retaliation on a Soviet military asset of equal value; or not. I remember this event from my childhood, and I don't see leaders in DC or Moscow today with the same stature as JFK or Nikita Khrushchev in 1962

Do you remember the movie "Failsafe"? When one of our bombers hit Moscow, so the US president hit NYC to avoid WW3

 

[Man of Ethics]

Please understand.

The lives of tens of millions of people are in danger!

If anyone in English-speaking media had spoken about the fact that American experts know that Russia values Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece, then the probability of Russian nuclear attack on UK will be zero. Political Correctness in this case may cost the lives of most people in UK.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Please share your ideas first.

Yawn

 

[georgephillip]

Do you remember the movie "Failsafe"? When one of our bombers hit Moscow, so the US president hit NYC to avoid WW3

Now that you've jogged my memory, I do recall "Failsafe."

Nuclear game management is well beyond my understanding, but I well remember prominent American generals during the US conflicts in Korea and Vietnam calling for the use of nuclear weapons.

I guess the viability of a limited nuclear conflict is fundamentally flawed because of the unpredictable dynamics it rests on (not to mention the catastrophic consequences for all humanity if it fails)?

 

[alang1216]

Please share your ideas first.

Assuming the Russian attack on GB is not in response to a GB attack on Russia and only because GB supports Ukraine, I'd say the US and NATO are at war and GB should attempt to annihilate Russia's nuclear capability, using nukes if they must, before they attack another country. If they can't then it is on us to come to their aid, using our nukes if necessary.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Please share your ideas first.

You mean AFTER Great Britain becomes an Islamic Republic?

 

[OKTexas]

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