Maximum Number of Nuclear Attacks That Leaves Your Way of Life Largely Unchanged?

Maximum Number of Nuclear Attacks That Leaves Your Life Largely Unchanged?

  • 1-5 if confined to a single region (Indian subcontinent/Korean peninsula)

    Votes: 9 32.1%
  • 6-10 if confined to a single region (Indian subcontinent/Korean peninsula)

    Votes: 8 28.6%
  • 11-50 if confined to a single region (Indian subcontinent/Korean peninsula)

    Votes: 10 35.7%
  • 1-5 if spread among major powers

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • 6-10 if spread among major powers

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • 11-50 if spread among major powers

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Total voters
    28
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Statistically speaking, in an all-out exchange, direct hits (in the sense of "warhead actually landing ontop of silo door and detonating") would be very rare but not impossible. I suppose the statement is technically true in that it's so unlikely in any given instance that when it does happen, no-one is expecting it. Not like it matters, though, since to any of the people for whom it matters would be very dead in the aftermath regardless.
You don't need a direct hit though - if you're close enough that the missile silo has fallen over in the middle of the crater, that missile isn't going anywhere.
 
You don't need a direct hit though - if you're close enough that the missile silo has fallen over in the middle of the crater, that missile isn't going anywhere.

I am well aware. Which is why "direct hit" in a nuclear-context is more of a relative term then how I was using it there.

IIRC a direct hit o a hardened silo by little more than 20 kilotons will knock it out of action

A direct hit on a hardened silo (again, assuming we mean "warhead actually landing ontop of silo door and detonating") by pretty much any multi-kiloton nuke you care to mention will take it out of action. Those silo doors are not rated to withstand the level of heat and pressure inherent from being in the interior of what is essentially a temporary miniature star. With the door vaporized the shockwave will do in the rest of the silo, regardless of whether the fireball fully engulfs the entire silo or not.
 

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For me, its either one or zero (weapon does not detonate) if we are looking at India/Pakistan. Reasoning is as follows; I work in IT and even one nuke (does not even have to detonate) would both stop any more of shoring and reverse whats happened.
 
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