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None...? I mean, there's enough nukes on the globe to DESTROY the globe. If nuclear war breaks out, the Earth is gonna break... literally.
 
None...? I mean, there's enough nukes on the globe to DESTROY the globe. If nuclear war breaks out, the Earth is gonna break... literally.
No there are not, you are just hearing exaggerations or miscalculations

Assuming a nuclear war today, most of Africa and South America survive at a minimum, as well as much of Oceania, theoretically most of the remaining states will survive in some form, but not intact
 
None...? I mean, there's enough nukes on the globe to DESTROY the globe. If nuclear war breaks out, the Earth is gonna break... literally.

That's... No just no. Environmental damage would be huge and weather patterns would be affected, but large swathes of the planet would escape.

I am going to assume we are talking Soviet-American exchange. In such a case South America, New Zealand , maybe parts of South Africa would avoid taking hits. We chat about this often and that tends to be a general consensus.
 
And all of this is assuming that either the Americans or Soviets aren't bad losers and decide that if they're going to be nuked to destruction and the other side win they might as well kick over the game board and take everyone with them.
 
And all of this is assuming that either the Americans or Soviets aren't bad losers and decide that if they're going to be nuked to destruction and the other side win they might as well kick over the game board and take everyone with them.

Well that's just not cricket.
 
such an exchange is very likely to create a nuclear winter, which would eventually spread around the globe and last for years. That's not even counting the radioactive effects of fallout, which also would eventually reach the southern hemisphere (assuming places like Australia didn't get a missle or two). Even if it didn't happen, countries that depend on Russia and the US for energy and/or food would be starving and in civil disorder. If there were any countries in good shape you can expect the US/Russia forces to start fighting for them if they didn't stop the war somehow.
 
such an exchange is very likely to create a nuclear winter, which would eventually spread around the globe and last for years. That's not even counting the radioactive effects of fallout, which also would eventually reach the southern hemisphere (assuming places like Australia didn't get a missle or two). Even if it didn't happen, countries that depend on Russia and the US for energy and/or food would be starving and in civil disorder. If there were any countries in good shape you can expect the US/Russia forces to start fighting for them if they didn't stop the war somehow.
I'm not sure we know with a very high degree of certainty what the climate effects would actually be so to the difficulty of actually testing this. I've heard everything from nothing at all to global reglaciation.
 
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People in Russia who aren't annihilated are capable of surviving a nuclear winter - it is already winter 24/7 for them.

Australia may lose some cities but minor cities may be spared.

The Caribbean and Pacific probably have nothing of major importance - they would be threatened by winter, if anything.
 
On the Russians surviving, I doubt it. A few especially hardy people maybe... but just because someone can survive cold, doesn't mean they can survive ridiculously cold weather. Nuclear winter will push them over the edge. Crops won't grow, etc etc.
 

Kongzilla

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Random question. Wouldn't it take less nukes in for the Americans to cripple the russians then it would the Russians to cripple the Americans seeing as 60-70 percent of the rusian population lives west of the urals while the Americans are spread all over the country.
 
Random question. Wouldn't it take less nukes in for the Americans to cripple the russians then it would the Russians to cripple the Americans seeing as 60-70 percent of the rusian population lives west of the urals while the Americans are spread all over the country.

Most Americans live on the East and West Coasts, I believe.
 

Max Rakus

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Like nuteral countries like Switzerland, Small states like monaco or san marino would survive or would they be nuked for no apparent reason
 
If we're assuming that this is a war between the US and Russia, then North America, Europe and northern and eastern Asia are screwed. Australia and India might end up being whatever passes for superpowers now. China might get spared from a direct attack, but the fallout from Russia, Japan and Korea should be enough to cripple it
 

Ancientone

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In an "all-out" nuclear war, no country would escape the affects of a nuclear winter, ozone depletion, ocean cooling, the commensurate disruption of weather patterns especially rainfall and collapse of harvests and fish stocks.
If the Northern Hemisphere forests were set ablaze they could pump more smoke and dust into the atmosphere for years. So its not the targeted countries, it is everyone.
With no western aid, two consecutive failed harvests in Africa would see most of the population off. The collapse of the world economy could kill off most of those who didn't die of blast, radiation, cold, hunger, civil unrest too.
An "all-out" war is about 5000Mt exchanged--in 1985 there were about 65,000 devices world wide, but far fewer today.
 
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