Pentagon Prepares Pre-Emptive Strike Against N. Korea (NBC NIGHTLY NEWS)

[liberalnarb]

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Odds are the Pentagon already had several plans for pre emptive strikes...

I would imagine and hope that we know exactly where most or all of NK's nuclear program facilities are located and and a plan on how to destroy them.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Dumb move

I hope the smarter generals can knock down Trump's wobbly strategy

[procon]

3. How many wars can we afford?

Seriously, we have military troops all over the Middle East, in Africa, and now the Far East. At the rate Trump is pissing off our enemies and allies alike, there's no end in sight. And the Republican fools are still talking about goddamned tax cuts for the criminally rich.

[democratisphere]

4. Huge mistake. Retaliation by North Korea against South Korea and other nations

would/could result in millions dying. When will the insane madness end?

[ffr]

5. B-1Bs cannot carry nuclear payloads?

They were originally part of the Strategic Air Command, working along side B-52-Hs, which carried stand-off Air Launch Cruise Missiles. AGM-86B ALCMs are armed with nuclear warheads. The B-1B was since retasked in the early 1990s to carry only conventional weapons, but if it had the capability to carry stand-off ALCMs in the first place, it follows there wouldn't be anything standing in the way of it regaining that capability if mission parameters required it.

That's the AGM-86B below the left wing. They can be carried either internally or externally.