# Missile Subs, tubes and tactics...AFTER they've launched? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 23, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295 "2002-11-23T02:38:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Barber_s_Underwear)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295/21 "2002-11-25T06:59:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\*I’m sure they could find a friendly port that didn’t get nuked. How many nukes are targeted at the southern hemisphere? New Zealand might make a nice stop. \*\* Sorry, New Zealand is a [Nuclear Free Zone](http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/peace/nukefree.html) - Bubba. ---
**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295/22 "2002-11-25T12:48:15Z")
foxyboxer - but they wouldn’t have any nukes left - they have just fired them ---
**Author:** ![Shortie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Shortie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shortie)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295/23 "2002-11-25T17:56:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scm1001 \* > \*\*foxyboxer - but they wouldn’t have any nukes left - they have just fired them \*\* They’ve still got nuclear reactors, which counts. OTOH, just who would care about that as Armageddon was going on? ---
**Author:** ![XPav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b77776/32.png) [@XPav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XPav)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295/24 "2002-11-25T22:56:29Z")
There’s a book… “Arc Light” in which a colossal misunderstanding ends up with a limited nuclear exchange between the US and Russia. Most people are fixated on the thought of all dying in a horrible full scale nuclear armageddon, and few consider the idea that we’d just have a minor armageddon only killing a few million people. I think we’re all in agreement that its a Good Thing that we’ve had neither. ---
**Author:** ![flyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295/25 "2002-11-25T23:20:08Z")
Good point, **XPav.** Count military planners in with those few. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295/26 "2002-11-26T01:23:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shade \* > \*\*Comrade, is this a good idea? > Da, da, is Tranquilis idea. \*\* _snerk_ 😃 Yeah, I could find uses for a few mis-directed ex-Soviet boomers… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295/27 "2002-11-26T01:28:10Z")
Well after you’ve launched your load, in addition to it being Miller time, you’ve just broadcast very loudly “Here I am! Come and get me!”, so mission number 1 is to not get your ass blown up by an enemy ship/missile. Of course now the first four Trident boomers are being converted to carry up to 154 Tomahawks each. That’s some seriously good firepower. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missile-subs-tubes-and-tactics-after-theyve-launched/138295.md?page=1)