# what do you do? \[hypothetical nuclear scenario\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-hypothetical-nuclear-scenario/749847>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 22, 2016, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-hypothetical-nuclear-scenario/749847 "2016-03-22T12:23:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-hypothetical-nuclear-scenario/749847/61 "2016-05-02T23:21:46Z")

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I finish reading _The Pet Goat_. Don’t want to upset anyone.

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**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-hypothetical-nuclear-scenario/749847/62 "2016-05-09T18:02:16Z")

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> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> _The missile was fired from a submarine off North Korea’s east coast, in the Sea of Japan, about 6:30 p.m. local time, the joint chiefs said. **The missile flew for only about 20 miles** , well short of a submarine-launched ballistic missile’s minimum range of 200 miles, Yonhap News Agency reported._  
> Color me less than impressed about the thread that North Korea poses to the continential United States, or even Hawaii.
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> Stranger

Yes and that was what people said when they tried to detonate their first nuke and it fizzled. People aren’t laughing quite so hard now.

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