May 23, 2012

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The greatest strategic threat to the United States is an attack by one or more ballistic missiles armed with nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. Today, the United States remains completely vulnerable to this form of attack.

Missilethreat.com is dedicated to explaining this threat, and the urgent need for robust and layered missile defenses. Systems based on land, sea, air, and in space which are capable of intercepting a missile during any phase of its flight are necessary to provide for the common defense.

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The Los Angeles Scenario

The Los Angeles basin, with a population 13 million people, the largest concentrated population on the West Coast of the United States.

Los Angeles is within range of the Chinese CSS-4, the North Korean Taepo Dong II missile, and a wide array of Russian ICBMs.

An attack on Los Angeles by a single warhead CSS-4 would result, depending on where it struck, in the immediate death of roughly 1.5 to 3 million Americans. Exposure to radiation would result in the deaths of an untold number in the weeks and months following the blast. A multiple warhead missile could kill millions more Americans.

The primary purpose of an attack on Los Angeles would be to kill large numbers of Americans, to demoralize the people of the United States, and to force the civil authorities to cope with large numbers of injuries following the blast, and the massive destruction of the physical infrastructure of a highly populated area.

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