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Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale
If an armed warhead is intercepted en route, what happens to any fallout? Does contamination of a non-combatant country count as collateral damage? And who, should this happen, would be deemed the aggressor?
This is about far more than a pair of power-hungry grotesques, is it not?
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Yes! And that's an excellent question. I don't know the answer.
Yes, I would consider any damage done by an intercepted warhead as collateral damage and innocent lives lost: civilian casualties.
I have NO idea what happens to the material of a missile that has been destroyed. I imagine it is
obliterated, as in blasted into very tiny, unharmful bits.
But I don't know.
Edited in: I think that this leader in North Korea just
might be willing and able to actually do this. Edited in just now: Because he's a loony.
The aggressor would be whoever fired the first (hopefully obliterated) missile en route to a real, designated target, without provocation, I imagine.