I want them to launch a nuke so we can kill them. Imagine how vilified Russians would become, it'd be like Nazis on steroids. Plus we can show the world that MUH NOOOOOKS is not a viable geopolitical stance and actually using any will be met with the most severe of consequences.
Post nuke areas in the US would be prime SHTF kino as well. It'd probably devolve into a multi side race war for a bit until the military and government start to regain control.
The big cities are the ones most likely to turn against Putin at the earliest opportunity. Russia is ironically one of the few countries where liquidating the shitty parts first will be the most effective way to make them surrender.
Of course. Russians have carefully killed, imprisoned and exiled the intelligentsia since Tsarist times. The remaining public exist to prey on each other and whoever is in reach. Russia was never good and their mass trolls on /k/ prove they merit extermination.
>Post nuke areas in the US would be prime SHTF kino as well. It'd probably devolve into a multi side race war for a bit until the military and government start to regain control.
i've been writing a dystopian setting for my bideo game and i've been flipflopping whether it should be after a nuclear war or not, because things are kinda bad but not awful. just recently this all made me think that there could have been a nuclear war, but it was a really weak one that in itself didn't do much, but everything goes to shit anyway because people suck in general
a lot of the satire i imagined for this setting has since become not so effective since it became true
Russia has 5977 nuclear warheads. About thirty will go to the countries of Europe, everything else will fly on stupid American heads. You can’t count on a cozy post-apocalypse, in the style of the Postman novel, we will provide everyone with detailed doses of iodine - 131 and strontium - 90.
Russia has money to maintain at most a single nuke, if they split the bill with chinks. If you actually believe their nukes work after over 40 years of negligence, I got a bridge to sell to you.
Listen, I'm not a Vatnik, I HATE 'EM. But would you be willing to bet your life on that? How 'both the life of everyone in your family? Or the life of every man, woman, and child on this planet?
Because if you're wrong, tens of millions die. At absolute minimum.
I say we take the chances with preemptive decapitating nuclear strike. If Chechoslovakia fought for Sudetenland WWII would have been prevented. Appeasement is the path to ruin. Nuclear first strike is humane, ethical and sensible option preventing billions of deaths from escalating WWIII. Think of it like a vaccine.
Are there any informed, non-classified analyses of what a first-strike against Russia might look like? Like what US counterforce capabilities actually are and what level of retaliation can be expected. I obviously don't support nuclear Armageddon just to protect the sovereignty of one flavor of Slav, I'd just like to know what I could expect if Biden woke up one morning and decided to fricking send it.
>About thirty will go to the countries of Europe, everything else will fly on stupid American heads.
What makes you think they would merely stop at 30 and not do their best to make good on their threats to exterminate the United Kingdom? Surely they could spare a few hundred more to turn Western Europe into a glowing crater....
The top leadership of Russia is full of Anglophiles. They remember that they owe the revolution of 1917 and the technology of the atomic bomb and the creation of their own tank industry to Britain. During World War II, the US Department of Defense ruthlessly and completely cynically sacrificed tens of thousands of its Marines by sending them on senseless assaults on the islands in order to drag out the war in the Pacific longer. It did this in order to strengthen the national struggle in the British colonies and, having lost them because of this, Great Britain ceased to be a sub-hegemon. The return step in Britain's desire to maintain the shaken world balance was the gift of the atomic bomb to the USSR.
The Russian generals removed Nicholas 2 with the approval of the M5, and Somerset Maugham, on their own behalf, met with Kerensky. The October Revolution would have been impossible without the February Revolution. Russia is the most loyal b***h of Britain, always throwing herself at her terrible enemies, first the French, then the Germans.
>About thirty will go to the countries of Europe, everything else will fly on stupid American heads.
What makes you think they would merely stop at 30 and not do their best to make good on their threats to exterminate the United Kingdom? Surely they could spare a few hundred more to turn Western Europe into a glowing crater....
They've only got 1500 or so actually in service, the rest are in storage. A large chunk of them will need to target US minuteman silos to limit the second strike. That doesn't leave much to target UK cities just out of spite.
Really a nuclear war just isn't winnable for russia, it may just be for NATO but it would be a big gamble still. But keep living in yohr vatnik delusions.
And? You do understand why they felt the need to build such a large arsenal, right? It's because their nukes are dogshit. They don't go where they are supposed to go and are worries about them failing or being destroyed before contact so they have to make them big and make a lot then they spin it in propaganda as "omg russia so scary look 6 gorillion ton nukes omgggg so scary" and "omg russia could destroy the world omggggg so stronk". Also having them does not mean being able to launch them, they can't launch most of those at once.
Same shit with their dogshit USSR stockpiled garbage. Wow Russia you have 100000000000 rusted, barely functional tanks that instantly die to infantry using modern AT, so strong!!!!!!!
I wish Ukraine geography allowed for M1A1s.
> About thirty will go to the countries of Europe, everything else will fly on stupid American heads
https://i.imgur.com/LeTk5j2.jpg
>About thirty will go to the countries of Europe, everything else will fly on stupid American heads.
What makes you think they would merely stop at 30 and not do their best to make good on their threats to exterminate the United Kingdom? Surely they could spare a few hundred more to turn Western Europe into a glowing crater....
> What makes you think they would merely stop at 30 and not do their best to make good on their threats to exterminate the United Kingdom?
Russian elites will erase their own palaces, yachts and foreign bank deposits and and kill their own children, wives and mistresses who all live in the “capitalistic disgusting West”? Even if russians hypothetically had the capabilities to do so, they wouldn’t.
Bro you can't take an ex-soviet country full of russian and russian speakers after 8 fricking years, id love to see the kind of chucklefrick bullshit you'd pull if it came to nuclear exchanges
no if any country uses a nuke there won't be another one launched in 100 years because people will know what they can do and using it on a israelitekraine will be a waste, I want one on Israel.
The lethality of radiation and the initial explosion gets severely blunted by structures, depending on your position and the explosion's. Probably the safest place would be a basement if it's sufficiently far from the explosion. But, you ought to wait a week or two for the majority of atoms half life to run out.
They were higher for a short time afterwards, but went back to normal quickly.
If a nuke is made properly, it should leave very little fallout long-term.
Indeed. Who needs nooks when you have the ultimate bioweapon. Btw did you know monke and potato are gathering a new wave of middle easterners to be thrown against the western border?
When the war started, and listened to putins desk speech, I had a tiny panic attack.
I can imagine another putin desk speech where he says something like "We warned you not to get involved. And just like when America nuked Japan to save lives we will do the same." Then I'll have a full panic attack.
But soon after it'll be revealed that the nuke(s) failed to launch, or failed to detonate, or missed and we just cringe again.
Key interior cities they'll hit to prove they can anything and help deepstate cleanup poopootowns:
St. Louis
Chicago (southside only, so many israelites northside)
Detroit (special bonus allows Canada to "help" via Toronto)
Buffalo (same as above, more direct route to NYC
And it'll be rolled into some CCP-owned apartment. And then all the other CCP-owned apartments will be stacked with moving boxes full of Timothy McVeigh formula and the ~~*real estate agents and developers*~~ will rejoice.
>omgomgomg they're just SITTING there! How did they get so many so close!
Or you know, shipping container boats. Maybe pull one or 10 of these off and since it's not "nUcLeAr" it won't be as politically spicy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion
Anons are so wound up by anti-Russian propaganda that I believe that half of them would gladly die in a nuclear fireball if it meant destroying Russia.
It's amusing to think there are Americans out there who think that Russians wouldn't happily rape and kill their family members. I guess that's the only way they could stop trannies from reading to their kids in the library since they're that weak so they're compelled to support putin. Like a weird projection of some kind of hypermasculinity that's venerated as a way to overcompensate for their own insecurities.
Russia's own behavior has created the mentality now felt towards them. If they used a nuke then I think you would actually see many openly embracing genocide and destruction of the Russian state.
no, I want NATO to launch all its 15k nukes first to exterminate russia and china. Then they will live in a true Metro 2033 world except for mutated monsters killing them it will be NATO extermination squads(which I will volunteer for)
The united states should launch one nuke on the 4th of july, every year.
Hell you could even sell tickets to the greatest show on earth. Most people who are still alive have never seen a nuke go off. This would remind them just what kind of forces are at work
You do realize that nuclear war with any country is essentially the end of human civilization, right? Of course there would be survivors, but we would be thrust back into the dark ages within a matter of a few days.
You decimate major cities with megaton warheads, it ends the capitalist mechanism. I am not talking about nuclear fallout here. Imagine if New York was destroyed in an instant. Just a few skyscrapers thrust the world into upheaval for 20 years. Now imagine multiple major cities just wiped out. Everything halts. Game over. People go into hiding, emergency services stop. No law enforcement or ambulances. No running water or electricity. Done. Wake up, tardboi.
It'd obviously be cataclysmic but I wasn't arguing that, just that it's not your 1950s fantasy armageddon. Anglo saxons thought roman infrastructure was built by giants.
the more i think about the nukse the more it feels pointless and how useless the weapon is. You blow up a place the place will be useless for any typ of work. Then you also have the fear of retaliation. We are not in the time when some leader goes to war and to take revenge they salt the whole land there's no point in salting the land when you could rule over it and collect taxes from them. Logically there's no point in nukes why not use other weapons like bio weapons you have vacinces for which you can use to hold them ransom or other conventional weapons that won't destroy infrastructure.
>I'm German.
we should've reconstituted your grandparents and forced them to fight the mongols all the way back to moscow you fricking subhuman homosexual.
You're not going to get shit
In an end or the world nuclear armageddon situation, the best that will happen is instant vaporisation. Otherwise you'll just realise nothing works, the world is going to hell, and nothing you used to rely on is available any more.
I want to see Russia attempt to launch a nuke followed by any of the following: >It hits its target but fails to explode because an oligarch traded the warhead for a yacht >It falls over while exiting the silo and explodes once enough time has passed for an awkward silence >The NSA changes the target to the Kremlin >It hits Washington DC or Tel Aviv and explodes successfully
I want them to launch a nuke so we can kill them. Imagine how vilified Russians would become, it'd be like Nazis on steroids. Plus we can show the world that MUH NOOOOOKS is not a viable geopolitical stance and actually using any will be met with the most severe of consequences.
Post nuke areas in the US would be prime SHTF kino as well. It'd probably devolve into a multi side race war for a bit until the military and government start to regain control.
There are 15 cities above 1m population in Russia, 15 remembrances of molten steel, and glassed rubble....one can dream.
The big cities are the ones most likely to turn against Putin at the earliest opportunity. Russia is ironically one of the few countries where liquidating the shitty parts first will be the most effective way to make them surrender.
>109.3 million inhabitants lived in Russian cities, opposed to 36.9 million people living in the countryside.
>~80% of Russian population supports war
do your math.
>~80% of Russian population supports war
You actually believe that statistic?
Yep
https://www.levada.ru/2022/06/02/konflikt-s-ukrainoj-2/
Got a better one?
It's more like 95%. Believe me, I know the russians, they're really like that.
t. Ukrainian bernd
Of course. Russians have carefully killed, imprisoned and exiled the intelligentsia since Tsarist times. The remaining public exist to prey on each other and whoever is in reach. Russia was never good and their mass trolls on /k/ prove they merit extermination.
>Post nuke areas in the US would be prime SHTF kino as well. It'd probably devolve into a multi side race war for a bit until the military and government start to regain control.
i've been writing a dystopian setting for my bideo game and i've been flipflopping whether it should be after a nuclear war or not, because things are kinda bad but not awful. just recently this all made me think that there could have been a nuclear war, but it was a really weak one that in itself didn't do much, but everything goes to shit anyway because people suck in general
a lot of the satire i imagined for this setting has since become not so effective since it became true
Russia has 5977 nuclear warheads. About thirty will go to the countries of Europe, everything else will fly on stupid American heads. You can’t count on a cozy post-apocalypse, in the style of the Postman novel, we will provide everyone with detailed doses of iodine - 131 and strontium - 90.
Russia has money to maintain at most a single nuke, if they split the bill with chinks. If you actually believe their nukes work after over 40 years of negligence, I got a bridge to sell to you.
Listen, I'm not a Vatnik, I HATE 'EM. But would you be willing to bet your life on that? How 'both the life of everyone in your family? Or the life of every man, woman, and child on this planet?
Because if you're wrong, tens of millions die. At absolute minimum.
I say we take the chances with preemptive decapitating nuclear strike. If Chechoslovakia fought for Sudetenland WWII would have been prevented. Appeasement is the path to ruin. Nuclear first strike is humane, ethical and sensible option preventing billions of deaths from escalating WWIII. Think of it like a vaccine.
Are there any informed, non-classified analyses of what a first-strike against Russia might look like? Like what US counterforce capabilities actually are and what level of retaliation can be expected. I obviously don't support nuclear Armageddon just to protect the sovereignty of one flavor of Slav, I'd just like to know what I could expect if Biden woke up one morning and decided to fricking send it.
>About thirty will go to the countries of Europe, everything else will fly on stupid American heads.
What makes you think they would merely stop at 30 and not do their best to make good on their threats to exterminate the United Kingdom? Surely they could spare a few hundred more to turn Western Europe into a glowing crater....
The top leadership of Russia is full of Anglophiles. They remember that they owe the revolution of 1917 and the technology of the atomic bomb and the creation of their own tank industry to Britain. During World War II, the US Department of Defense ruthlessly and completely cynically sacrificed tens of thousands of its Marines by sending them on senseless assaults on the islands in order to drag out the war in the Pacific longer. It did this in order to strengthen the national struggle in the British colonies and, having lost them because of this, Great Britain ceased to be a sub-hegemon. The return step in Britain's desire to maintain the shaken world balance was the gift of the atomic bomb to the USSR.
They owe the revolution of 1917 to Germany letting Lenin go to Russia, what are you talking about.
And they had almost two centuries of conflict with Britain, never heard of the "great game"?
The Russian generals removed Nicholas 2 with the approval of the M5, and Somerset Maugham, on their own behalf, met with Kerensky. The October Revolution would have been impossible without the February Revolution. Russia is the most loyal b***h of Britain, always throwing herself at her terrible enemies, first the French, then the Germans.
They've only got 1500 or so actually in service, the rest are in storage. A large chunk of them will need to target US minuteman silos to limit the second strike. That doesn't leave much to target UK cities just out of spite.
Really a nuclear war just isn't winnable for russia, it may just be for NATO but it would be a big gamble still. But keep living in yohr vatnik delusions.
And? You do understand why they felt the need to build such a large arsenal, right? It's because their nukes are dogshit. They don't go where they are supposed to go and are worries about them failing or being destroyed before contact so they have to make them big and make a lot then they spin it in propaganda as "omg russia so scary look 6 gorillion ton nukes omgggg so scary" and "omg russia could destroy the world omggggg so stronk". Also having them does not mean being able to launch them, they can't launch most of those at once.
Same shit with their dogshit USSR stockpiled garbage. Wow Russia you have 100000000000 rusted, barely functional tanks that instantly die to infantry using modern AT, so strong!!!!!!!
I wish Ukraine geography allowed for M1A1s.
> About thirty will go to the countries of Europe, everything else will fly on stupid American heads
> What makes you think they would merely stop at 30 and not do their best to make good on their threats to exterminate the United Kingdom?
Russian elites will erase their own palaces, yachts and foreign bank deposits and and kill their own children, wives and mistresses who all live in the “capitalistic disgusting West”? Even if russians hypothetically had the capabilities to do so, they wouldn’t.
An actual low IQ child post. Doesn't matter if you have a billion of nukes when your number of launchers are regulated by the START treaty.
Ergo, launch one nuke, all your launchers go bye bye, then the rest of you nukes sit in their silos doing jack shit.
Bro you can't take an ex-soviet country full of russian and russian speakers after 8 fricking years, id love to see the kind of chucklefrick bullshit you'd pull if it came to nuclear exchanges
>out of focus overexposed washed out 640x480 silky smooth 20 FPS Orlan-10 shaky cam
No thanks.
Only if it hits DC while the rest are shot down by ABMs.
yeah but only for the genocide kino that will follow shortly after as every western nation descends upon the irradiated remnants of puccia
no if any country uses a nuke there won't be another one launched in 100 years because people will know what they can do and using it on a israelitekraine will be a waste, I want one on Israel.
Israel has nukes and a Samson Doctrine so we're all fricked even if the world collectively agrees to let somebody nuke Israel.
though the STALKER universe would get bigger so that'd be cool I guess
Well thanks to this war I'm pretty sure stalker 2 will involve rigged granade dropping consumer drones.
I can't fricking wait to prank Lonergays with VOG drones.
OP most nuclear explosions are far too bright to photograph with a phone
Almost all nuclear footage is through welder mask tier cameras
Those Hbombs over the pacific burned the bark off trees for like 15 seconds
Nukes are overrated
>comparing first gen nukes to current gen
Yeah, there might have been some upgrades since then...
Yeah they don't destroy buildings anymore, just kills the people
One less reason to worry
How do they not destroy buildings? Genuine question, would it be viable to just stay in a secure building then until the shits all over?
high yield neutron bombs terminates personnel without damaging infrastructure
Doesn't it make the leftover stuff radioactive, neutron activation?
The lethality of radiation and the initial explosion gets severely blunted by structures, depending on your position and the explosion's. Probably the safest place would be a basement if it's sufficiently far from the explosion. But, you ought to wait a week or two for the majority of atoms half life to run out.
Only 10% of the of the radioactive atoms would be around after just 2 days. 1% after a week
We aren't quite to neutron bombs yet. Right now it would be a lot of 200kt to 1mt bombs. So basically the same as the a bombs but much, much bigger.
Did cancer rates of surrounding exposed regions match what was expected? brb
They were higher for a short time afterwards, but went back to normal quickly.
If a nuke is made properly, it should leave very little fallout long-term.
Enjoy your irradiated Mazda lmoa
>Miatas are radioactive from thr factory
Finally we've figured out why gay men have higher cancer rates.
Indeed. Who needs nooks when you have the ultimate bioweapon. Btw did you know monke and potato are gathering a new wave of middle easterners to be thrown against the western border?
Good thing unlike USA, Poland isn't too poor to build wall on its border.
gotta love cherry picked pictures.
They are but you’re comparing the cities with a shithole
When the war started, and listened to putins desk speech, I had a tiny panic attack.
I can imagine another putin desk speech where he says something like "We warned you not to get involved. And just like when America nuked Japan to save lives we will do the same." Then I'll have a full panic attack.
But soon after it'll be revealed that the nuke(s) failed to launch, or failed to detonate, or missed and we just cringe again.
Maybe they'll put Putin in the nuke bunker and just tell him there was a nuclear war, and for his safety he needs to stay inside for 10 years
Key interior cities they'll hit to prove they can anything and help deepstate cleanup poopootowns:
St. Louis
Chicago (southside only, so many israelites northside)
Detroit (special bonus allows Canada to "help" via Toronto)
Buffalo (same as above, more direct route to NYC
And it'll be rolled into some CCP-owned apartment. And then all the other CCP-owned apartments will be stacked with moving boxes full of Timothy McVeigh formula and the ~~*real estate agents and developers*~~ will rejoice.
>St. Louis
>Chicago
>Detroit
>Buffalo
Nuclear war doesn't sound so bad bros
orite or pull up a nuclear sub into port in
>Miami
or 5, long ass city
>omgomgomg they're just SITTING there! How did they get so many so close!
Or you know, shipping container boats. Maybe pull one or 10 of these off and since it's not "nUcLeAr" it won't be as politically spicy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion
Anons are so wound up by anti-Russian propaganda that I believe that half of them would gladly die in a nuclear fireball if it meant destroying Russia.
I honestly just want more violence.
It's more of an excuse than anything.
I know this is bait but the actual people who alway say this are the first to freeze in fear and shit their pants in a real firefight.
Let them, it will finally cleanse the world of the woke problem.
It's amusing to think there are Americans out there who think that Russians wouldn't happily rape and kill their family members. I guess that's the only way they could stop trannies from reading to their kids in the library since they're that weak so they're compelled to support putin. Like a weird projection of some kind of hypermasculinity that's venerated as a way to overcompensate for their own insecurities.
Russia's own behavior has created the mentality now felt towards them. If they used a nuke then I think you would actually see many openly embracing genocide and destruction of the Russian state.
>kino footage
You mean footage taken from a smartphone with a huge watermark to some slav website?
no, I want NATO to launch all its 15k nukes first to exterminate russia and china. Then they will live in a true Metro 2033 world except for mutated monsters killing them it will be NATO extermination squads(which I will volunteer for)
>NATO extermination squads(which I will volunteer for)
Ah, a fellow moderate.
>Putin: If you strike Russia, I will NUKE.
>Ukkies strikes Crimea
>Putin: NO, it was smooker.
Also
>Putin: Nukes are bad.
I guess I don't think we'll see Putin gonna nuke somebody soon.
or it just doesn't work or he doesn't have one or it's just a bluff
The united states should launch one nuke on the 4th of july, every year.
Hell you could even sell tickets to the greatest show on earth. Most people who are still alive have never seen a nuke go off. This would remind them just what kind of forces are at work
also it would be cool as frick
Unironically based
If nukes were a natural occurrence, it would be a tourist arraction anywhere
There's a decent chance I could actually nut to that video.
poor grunts
probably all died of cancer or turned green and grew an extra limb
very few actually
the way Russia is going, they'd probably accidentally nuke Belarus
Ironically, yes.
Unironically. Frick no, what the hell is wrong with you?
I want the Russians to give us an excuse to nuke them and China, too.
You do realize that nuclear war with any country is essentially the end of human civilization, right? Of course there would be survivors, but we would be thrust back into the dark ages within a matter of a few days.
nukes aren't nearly as scary as pop culture pretends
warheads aren't fallout tier like the 50s
You decimate major cities with megaton warheads, it ends the capitalist mechanism. I am not talking about nuclear fallout here. Imagine if New York was destroyed in an instant. Just a few skyscrapers thrust the world into upheaval for 20 years. Now imagine multiple major cities just wiped out. Everything halts. Game over. People go into hiding, emergency services stop. No law enforcement or ambulances. No running water or electricity. Done. Wake up, tardboi.
do you what what capitalism is
Its not cities or buildings
It'd obviously be cataclysmic but I wasn't arguing that, just that it's not your 1950s fantasy armageddon. Anglo saxons thought roman infrastructure was built by giants.
>Imagine if New York was destroyed in an instant
Oh no haha that would be so bad lol haha
Yes i want every liberal dem city to be wiped off the map along with Russia.
Just imagine believing there is a scenario where only one nuke would be launched
kys fgt
No, not because of that. Just depressed and want that sweet sweet relief of radiation poisoning.
It is not likely a nuke is launched, but at the rate that the smooker is going around, there is a chance the smooker will blow one up
the more i think about the nukse the more it feels pointless and how useless the weapon is. You blow up a place the place will be useless for any typ of work. Then you also have the fear of retaliation. We are not in the time when some leader goes to war and to take revenge they salt the whole land there's no point in salting the land when you could rule over it and collect taxes from them. Logically there's no point in nukes why not use other weapons like bio weapons you have vacinces for which you can use to hold them ransom or other conventional weapons that won't destroy infrastructure.
>You blow up a place the place will be useless for any typ of work
that's not true
how so? played civ 6 after a nuke yuou have to clean up the place it takes ages
awar is scary but a nuke war is also scary there's weapons system out there that are still deadly but why are nukes seen as scary?
what if hey lunch one at your home OP
It'd be cool if they organized some open air testing and did a bunch of 4k video and audio recordings of it.
I personally don't believe America would respond in any way or form, not even if the Russians nuked a NATO country like Lithuania.
What experience has taught me that Americans are probably the loudest but least warlike of all people on earth.
That reminds me I recently read a Washington biography. Lol @ calling the """war""" of independence a war.
Yeah, you should do it
Nuke the NATO country
I'm German.
imagine my shock
>I'm German.
we should've reconstituted your grandparents and forced them to fight the mongols all the way back to moscow you fricking subhuman homosexual.
Sounds more like Russia as each red line has been crossed by nato this year and putin has done nothing in response.
Nukes don’t work or rather a full nuclear war isn’t allowed. Why? Because pic related have disabled them.
Humans aren’t the only intelligent spiders on earth. In fact we aren’t even the apex species.
>In fact we aren’t even the apex species.
We'll see about that green Black person
> Black person
Hey no need to be racist my man.
You're not going to get shit
In an end or the world nuclear armageddon situation, the best that will happen is instant vaporisation. Otherwise you'll just realise nothing works, the world is going to hell, and nothing you used to rely on is available any more.
nukes are the end of le world just like your hecking video games isn't it sonny
I just want to wander the wasteland and hunt instead of working
Maybe as a test/demonstration. Nukes only worked on Japan because we immediately occupied them and made the 10000x better.
I want to see Russia attempt to launch a nuke followed by any of the following:
>It hits its target but fails to explode because an oligarch traded the warhead for a yacht
>It falls over while exiting the silo and explodes once enough time has passed for an awkward silence
>The NSA changes the target to the Kremlin
>It hits Washington DC or Tel Aviv and explodes successfully