What year are you talking about?What countries would survive a full out nuclear war?
No there are not, you are just hearing exaggerations or miscalculationsNone...? 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.
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.
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.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 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.
Australia may lose some cities but minor cities may be spared.
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.