They have missiles that can wipe us out, but they know we also have missiles that can wipe them out. Mutually-Assured Destruction exists for a reason. I worry less about one of the major world powers starting a nuclear war (hell, even Trump has a survival instinct) than about some rogue actor setting off nukes in the hope that they won’t be identified, or some Kim-esque nut job who thinks he can hide out in some nuke-proof mountain shelter and doesn’t give a damn what happens to anyone else.

But then things will end very quickly. Fortunately our leaders are megalamaniacs who want to live firever.

If we ever have a major world leader who is just ho-hum about their own existence, watch out!

And I read they're firing live ammo into the protesters in Hong Kong now!! It's an authoritarian State takeover.

Or did Trump throw them away with China too.

The world had stopped advancing nuclear weapons technology for a few decades, this is a terrible development.

Sure, MAD works for now, but the idea with weapons like this is that you could obliterate the US before they had a chance to order the launch of their own missiles. Imagine 10 of these with 25 warheads each, that's the 250 biggest American cities leveled within an hour. If Orange Shitstain were on the toilet, he might not even come out for an hour.

from eastern China, that means it can reach Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest - not sure about California?

thanks for clarifying