Um, no. The Roman Empire fell, and the world moved on. The Ottoman Empire fell, and the world moved on. The Soviet Empire fell, and the world moved on. We would certainly leave a huge power vacuum behind, but people and civilization would move on.BeerzGod wrote:
Couldn't have been said any better than this. Absolute fact.[TUF]Catbox wrote:
We wont fall... we adapt and survive... If the US was gone the world would collapse... fact
Touche you? I barely know you!stryyker wrote:
but the Romans didnt have nukes. Touche me.
OK that is absolute bullshit in the clearest form, get over yourself and get the fuck out.BeerzGod wrote:
Couldn't have been said any better than this. Absolute fact.[TUF]Catbox wrote:
We wont fall... we adapt and survive... If the US was gone the world would collapse... fact
Well, the US could fall, pretty easily. If there was a major distruption in services (read: loss of electricity, water, food transport) for a significant period of time (a month of so) across a sizeable area (a couple of entire states), then it could happen. New Orleans and the aftermath of Katrina are a good example in microcosm. Once basic services are lost, once the people cannot depend on their local emergency services, once they are out of contact and on their own, then everything breaks down. Imagine New York City(all of NYC) if the power went off and stayed off. If there were no telephones. Or water. Or food. Millions of people whose only thought is now just food, water, and survive until tomorrow. Once something like that happens over a wide enough area, the federal goverment becomes pretty useless.BeerzGod wrote:
Couldn't have been said any better than this. Absolute fact.[TUF]Catbox wrote:
We wont fall... we adapt and survive... If the US was gone the world would collapse... fact
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Possibly but not what i meant.Hallvard wrote:
There was a German submarine on it's way to Japan with some Uran that was supposed to be put in bombs and droped over USA... but the submarine surrendered some time after Germany fell after ignoring many commands to return to Germany... Japan had the tecnology to make nuclear weapons, but not the materials needed...Smithereener wrote:
Ooh. That makes more sense. Except it never happened. Got the government paranoid enough to send them to internment camps though.Noobeater wrote:
No he means after pearl harbour when the japenese had plans to bomb the hell out of california, i can't remember anything else about it though due to it being 1:44 am so night.
wiki wrote:
First aerial bombing of the continental U.S.
In June 1942, I-25 was patrolling the coast of Oregon, and shelled Battery Russell, a small coastal army installation within now decommissioned Fort Stevens. Damage was minimal. In fact, the only item of significance destroyed on the fort was a baseball backstop. On September 9, 1942, the crew again deployed the Glen, which dropped incendiary bombs over Oregon forest land, in the first ever time that the continental United States was bombed from the air, known as "The Lookout Air Raid". The goal was to trigger wildfires across the coast, but light winds, wet weather conditions and two quick acting Fire Lookouts kept the fires under control. In fact, had the winds been sufficiently brisk to stoke widespread forest fires, the lightweight Glen would have been unable to fly.
I-25 was sunk less than a year later by the destroyer USS Patterson off the New Hebrides islands on September 3, 1943.