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Old 05-09-2014, 07:00 PM
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I'm pretty happy with the flashpoints (time, place, and circumstances) for the beginnings of the Twilight 2030 war in Asia and Europe. Now we have to decide when and how the war goes nuclear. IIRC, in the v1.0 timeline, it takes a year or so before the Soviets use nukes in China.

Targan suggested a Chinese biowar attack on the CONUS as a way of creating the instability needed to give a Mexican invasion hope of any degree of success, however temporary. For our purposes, it's certainly an option. If China attacked the U.S. with a strategic weapon of that magnitude, the U.S. would certainly be compelled to retaliate, if not in kind (I don't see the U.S. using bioweapons), then with an alternative strategic weapon, no? But why would China unleash that genie of deadly pestilence?

Here's another option- a cyber attack. What if, once the Chinese intervene for prevent a complete NK collapse in Korea, and commence combat with American troops there, the Chinese unleash a devastating cyber attack, paralyzing large chunks of the American power grid and possible lowering the readiness of our strategic nuclear force. It's a damaging strategic attack and, if the U.S. was unable to respond in kind, perhaps while also losing ground to the PLA in Korea, then I could see the pentagon pushing for authorization to use tactical nukes. It would, of course, escalate from there.
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