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Wait, what, WTF? What where those pictures of? Is that Simcity 3000?
i first saw the last pic and thought it was an aireal picture of the September 11 attacks.
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Bing maps aerial photography. It's stitched together, that's why it looks so strange.Wait, what, WTF? What where those pictures of? Is that Simcity 3000?
i first saw the last pic and thought it was an aireal picture of the September 11 attacks.
This list is way, way off.
Particularly for China (PRC), which only has 200-250 bombs.
In addition, China keeps it's nuclear weapons de-coupled from their delivery systems.
Oh right, i did think it meant Iran but you are right. Isreal however doesn't own that many. They might have just as much as North-Korea.
Killing everyone on the planet.
China probably has MIRV capability as well, so if it can get 20 missiles here then it might be able to drop 100-200 items on our shore, and that is enough to collapse the country. That's not counting the SSBMs they are believed to have.
US and Russia each have more than enough to warrant either SPF 1,000,000 or a few extra blankets and some soup, perhaps enough to 4-6 months.
Either way, if it turns into an *all-out* war, expect most of humanity to die, perhaps 6 billion+ altogether, and the EMP combined with lingering fallout might make like a lot more painful for the surviviors.
Unlike the United States the Chinese military is able to keep secrets. Wikipedia doesn't know crap about China's arsenal. And that's the way China likes it.
With a thousand bombs? You'd have trouble enough killing everyone in Texas with only a thousand bombs. Every city dweller and family on an army base, sure.
Everyone on the planet? Take hold of yourself man.
Depends on the weapon. Normal weapons, you are correct. Cobalt and Gold salted 25mT weapons, well, now we are talking a different game.
Even then, "everyone on the planet" doesn't make a moment's sense.
Ever hear of a Nuclear Winter? 1000(only the russian ones actually like was suggested, more US bombs will detonate plus also hundreds of Chinese) nuclear bombs with an average yield of maybe 200 Kilotons(just a wild guess) exploding almost simulatenously over many heavily populated areas in the USA, Russia and China would seriously affect the climate.
add that up with the devastation of food supplies(both flora and fauna), radiation poisoning and droughts that will follow i don't think many will survive(not even 1%) to the next year.
Especially where the bombs will actually fall you get dead wastelands within weeks. The rest of the world will follow shortly.
I couldn't think of a more polite way to say it than "wrong."
Wrong.
Most of the time spent writing this post was editing out harsher yet more accurate reflections on the ignorance displayed above.
It's just quite, quite wrong, is all.
Again, I think your estimate is somewhat on the light side for an all-out war. China alone has 1.3+ billion with America at approx. 315 million and Russia at 146 million. I presume that much of Europe (400+ million) will also get involved along with strikes at US-friendly targets in South Korea and Japan, perhaps with Australia. Turkey and Qatar are also likely to get involved as NATO or countries with friendly bases. Not sure if Taiwan will be exempt or not.
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If America strikes first, the least likely but least awful scenario, the attack will be entirely counter force.
Admiral Matt said:If Russia struck first, there would be some kind of plan for winning the war.
Admiral Matt said:Define "all-out war."
A war of extermination? Sure, I'd come closer to your numbers.
But it's functionally impossible to justify a scenario where the modern states would do so. Given the absurd assumption that this war happens to begin with, there is no justification for the powers to do anything but what I suggested, though I'm happy to argue that if you disagree.
In other news, it looked like you're way off on the impact of fallout, but I skimmed because I want to sleep. Could be wrong.