Would Calexit be a good thing?

Re:Would Calexit be a good thing? by koyao on Sunday February 26, 2017 @11:40AM (#13738086)

He who controls the nukes, controls California's destiny.

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Re:Would Calexit be a good thing? by jurassic on Sunday February 26, 2017 @03:04PM (#13739472)

If somebody is stealing your car do you shoot out the tires with a rocket launcher to stop him? That's what nuking California would amount to.

Launching nukes would be suicidally stupid for a number of reasons. Firstly, we're upwind of the rest of the US and radioactive fallout would be transported to adjacent states. We didn't realize it when we were performing original tests in Nevada, but now we know there was a significant spike in cancers occurring in the people of St. George Utah, for example, as a result of 1950s nuclear tests in Nevada.

A more immediate and practical concern is that California is responsible for a significant proportion of the United States' food supply.

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Re:Would Calexit be a good thing? by JBReefer on Sunday February 26, 2017 @11:54AM (#13738170)

And for non-American readers, those are located in the big, flat central states that California would be seceeding from.

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Re:Would Calexit be a good thing? by justin66 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:10PM (#13738280)

If command authority to launch ICBMs devolves to the states where the missiles are stationed, that will be an indicator that civilization is over. The political fate of California would be a footnote.

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