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on January 25, 1995 in Norway a group of american and Norwegian scientists lunched a Brant XII four-stage sounding 10 minutes 10 minutes to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, the air corridor this rocket was in stretches over the North Dakota Minuteman-III silos all the way to Moscow, and by some mistake Russian radar operators hadn't been informed about the experiment.
naturally the country was put on high alert and Boris Yeltsin had 10 minutes before he was suppose to assume the worse and lunch retaliatory nuclear strike against the USA.... but fortunately before the 10 minutes where up the radar operators where able to report that the rocket was heading away from Russian airspace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident
what if just before the Russians started determining it's trajectory the rocket gets his by either a small meteorite or a bit of space junk that knocks into trajectory towards Russia leaving Boris Yeltsin no choice but to assume to worse
would the post cold war stock piles of 1995 be big enough to end man king or civilisation?
 

HellHound01

Banned
on January 25, 1995 in Norway a group of american and Norwegian scientists lunched a Brant XII four-stage sounding 10 minutes 10 minutes to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, the air corridor this rocket was in stretches over the North Dakota Minuteman-III silos all the way to Moscow, and by some mistake Russian radar operators hadn't been informed about the experiment.
naturally the country was put on high alert and Boris Yeltsin had 10 minutes before he was suppose to assume the worse and lunch retaliatory nuclear strike against the USA.... but fortunately before the 10 minutes where up the radar operators where able to report that the rocket was heading away from Russian airspace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident
what if just before the Russians started determining it's trajectory the rocket gets his by either a small meteorite or a bit of space junk that knocks into trajectory towards Russia leaving Boris Yeltsin no choice but to assume to worse
would the post cold war stock piles of 1995 be big enough to end man king or civilisation?

Yes, post cold war stock piles were large enough then, and still are today to end civilization as we know it. However man kind would still survive.
 
A bit of space junk or a meteorite would destroy the rocket, not deflect it. Rockets are far more fragile than most folks realize.
 
I think a glitch in programming or a problem with a fuel injector would be much more likely to knock the rocket off course than a small meteorite. But barring exactly how the war starts mankind will not be completely wiped out because there's no way both superpowers will launch their entire stockpile.
Enough nukes will fly to destroy civilization as we know it, probably nuclear winter for 10 or so years followed by an even longer period of nuclear summer from the depleted ozone layer will take down the nations that weren't directly destroyed in the war.
 
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