If it turned out there were a real-life Godzilla - 70 foot lizard like mutated monster - would the US or other countries of the world have a strategy for dealing with it?

Since it is no longer politically correct to allow anyone to live & let live, I’d think we’d have troops at the border to direct it to the nearest concentration camp!!!

I would suggest parachuting Trump in to tackle it single handed.

Let it rip through California then when it’s done blow it up with a couple smart bombs.

They would try to build a wall against it, and send in ICE to deport it back to Mexico.

Since this is in General, I will answer you seriously. The US would destroy the creature completely if they could not contain it, and I’m sure they could contain it for studies.

@KNOWITALL
You think I was not serious?

It would be a simple task to take care of the problem without wasting time coming up with some far-fetched strategy in advance that will most likely never be used. For example, a well placed round from a RPG-7 would eliminate that threat. Or any anti-tank gun or fighter aircraft gun or air-to-air missle system.

@ragingloli Probably were, sounded like uninformed snark to me.

Dealing with it? What do you mean? The destruction of such an animal would be a piece of cake. I would imagine that the desirability of its demise would vary with the severity of the creature’s threat. In other words, if the animal shows up in downtown Tokyo as it did in the scripts, considerations of capturing it alive are immediately diminished. On the other hand, if it is simply meandering around the countryside, it should be a relatively straightforward matter to gas then subdue it.

I mean, realistically, the thing would collapse under its own weight the moment more than 50% of its body was out of the water.

Just how many calories must a thing like that consume to continue such a sustained rampage.

The thing would more than likely show up in Japan anyway since that was where it was “born”
Knowing how much the Japanese idolise him, they’d probably rush en masse to pose for selfies with him & to hell with the consequences.

Interesting. Just saw the latest Godzilla film made in Japan few years ago and I heard it was a certified hit. If I remember correctly Godzilla was indestructible. Seems he’s a metaphor for the sort of terrifying power made by man at such unintended magnitude that you could now only redirect it or contain it…but totally destroy it? Highly unlikely says the latest screenplay. : )

@mazingerz88
Well, the first bunker buster bomb did damage it quite a bit.
But then it beam spammed the bombers out of the sky.

^^Yes. Multiple hits like that at the same time might do the trick?

You could skewer it with orbital kinetic penetrators.

Oh no there goes Tokyo!

First of all, Godzilla is MUCH bigger than 70 feet.

So, would you mean a creature 350–400 feet that has a nuclear blast breath weapon, that could annihilate cities like the Hiroshima detination? Or just something maybe twice as big as a dinosaur?

Size matters.

The problem is, it would be difficult to deal with a nuclear threat that size with that much destruction. Godzilla, like Cloverfield, might be in a class that is more difficult to destroy than what we are used to.

Yes, we could destroy it no contest. But it would take a lot of damage to the planet to do it. And who knows? In horror and sci-fi, maybe what we hoped for does more damage than good to the world, and we find out that we didn’t even destroy it. Or not for very long.

A better question would be, if it were a threat like Cthulhu or The Great Old Ones rising and an ancient and truly alien kind of creature rises and starts toppling the cities.

I don’t have a problem with lizards as long as they don’t pose a threat to me. Does Godzilla eat humans or have a desire to kill them. If not then leave it be. Far more unbeliveable than this great question is the idea that the US army is capable of planning anything.

I don’t think Godzilla ever ate humans. But toppling cities counts for something. And the radioactivity and nuclear damage is essentially that of Hiroshima. That was what the original Godzilla evoked the horror of.

@phil630…he could step on you by accident. But he wouldn’t eat you.
I saw a kitten almost get stepped on by a horse today.

1. Godzilla isn’t just a 70-foot lizard. It’s a radiation/karma-generated fantasy amphibian monster/hero metaphor with atomic ray breath and modern-weapon-negating powers and plot armor and you-can’t-kill-Godzilla-armor.

2. A plain 70-foot lizard would be studied if it were away from human habitation, or probably killed if it came near human habitation, because human authorities tend to be self-centered short-sighted fools, who unless someone wiser and with a better plan is around, will even shoot things like bears or lions if they think there’s any risk to humans that can be reduced by shooting them.

3. On the other hand, large crocodiles (which can get up to around 20 feet long) are often just left alone even in parks or people’s yards in places like Florida, unless they’re getting into trouble. They’re quite common and usually you can get within a few feet of them and they will just continue doing their thing (usually resting and hanging out, it seemed to me when I saw them in person).

4. A plain 70-foot lizard would not be particularly hard to kill for people with rifles. It wouldn’t warrant any special military planning.

@ragingloli “I mean, realistically, the thing would collapse under its own weight the moment more than 50% of its body was out of the water.”
How sure are you about that?

1. That is a quadruped.
2. Lived all its life on land and was adapted to it.
3. Godzilla is a primarily aquatic creature, its weight supported by buoyancy.

I’d sick my little Yorkie mix on it. He hates lizards and has killed several. He also doesn’t recognize that he is a small dog and pretty much a wimp.

There are quite a few versions of Godzilla(disambiguation) but he seems to generally be a giant amphibian, not just aquatic, with super duper powers due to radiation exposure, and evidently quite able to stand up and do various feats while on land.

I can’t believe no one gave you a great question yet.

There ya go.