Sino-Soveit Nuclear war

My understanding is PLA don't even keep their missiles and warheads at the same location. So the probability of unintentional launch is zero.
 
Any nuclear war irregardless of the protaganists, will spell deep shiite for the planet. You all are forgetting one element of this nasty scenario, is the fact of all the crap that would be blasted into the atmosphere from all the nuclear detonations that would ensue. Anyone who goes around and says that a nuclear war will not damage the enviroment of the planet, needs their heads examined. Radiation will not be the only problem however, not to mention the ensuing climatic damage that will affect the entire planet, YES, even regions that were not directly affected by the nuclear exchange. So to sum it up, best not to have a nuke war, very, very bad for the planet.
 

randomkeith

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Wouldn't nuclear winter cancel out global warming.

So nuclear wars a good thing. Save the planet. Fire a Nuke!!!!!!!:cool::cool:
 
Here are several major problems that will be a major hassle for the United States and its allies:

* Supposing that you have killed c.500 million people in China. The 750 million survivors are going to demand humanitarian aid and medical relief. Refugees will flood into Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Vietnam, North Korea, and the Philippines. With the exceptions of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and North Korea, all of these nations have had a long history of anti-Chinese sentiment. You are going to have anti-Chinese riots, refugee camps, ethnic cleansing and border conflicts...

* Second, with the situation in Russia and China, if people think the problem of "loose nukes" was a problem in 1991, imagine the problem magnified with the decapitation of the governments. In this scenario, it is very easy to see rogue states (Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Indonesia, Mynanmar, Cambodia, et al.) and terrorist organizations (e.g. Japanese Aum Shirinkyo, Russian Mafiya, Chechen guerillas, Abu-Sayyef, Taliban guerillas, Al-Qaeda, et al.) all obtaining nuclear weapons...

* Third, with North Korea, with the sudden influx of Chinese refugees, and the sudden capture of Chinese nuclear weapons, they can either sell to terrorist organizations, or can use nuclear blackmail against South Korea and Japan. In this case, Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung won't have the Chinese and Russian governments pressuring them to the diplomatic table....

* Fourth, any computer IT person can read and detect a computer virus, and can often trace where it came from. Just remember that Chinese "Brain Drain" means that many of the computer programmers of China, studied abroad at places like Stanford University, Cal Tech, et al. As such, within 48 hours, they will know that it was the Americans who caused this genocidal act, plus the evidence to prove it before an international audience

If even one of these scenarios takes place, the United States and its allies are going to be in a world of hurt. More likely, it will be a combination of two or more items, with the possibility of a mushroom cloud appearing Washington D.C. within 2-5 years almost certain....
 
I think in a Sino-Soviet nuclear conflict, North Korea, as a Russian ally on China's border, is going to be ashes.

Secondly, if the conflict is in the 1980s, "rogue states" are much less of a problem.
 
Wouldn't nuclear winter cancel out global warming.

So nuclear wars a good thing. Save the planet. Fire a Nuke!!!!!!!:cool::cool:
There is no such thing as nuclear winter, get it straight. Even the man who came up with the theory later dismissed it, but media never caught on.

Radiation spread is a problem, but one that's severely over-hyped. It means more cancers and mutations and a lower life expectancy, but that's entirely different from a civilization-killer. Health care costs go up, genetic therapy is researched, and in most areas the radiation increase is negligible.

Don't forget, after all, that radiation spread is dependent on radiation mixing with the dirt that gets sent flying. Nuclear weapons are almost uniformly air bursts, which cuts down on that significantly.
 
I think in a Sino-Soviet nuclear conflict, North Korea, as a Russian ally on China's border, is going to be ashes.

Secondly, if the conflict is in the 1980s, "rogue states" are much less of a problem.
Unfortunately there are two things wrong. First, North Korea would probably claim neutrality in the case of the the Sino-Soviet border conflict, as it did historically in the case of the 1969 and 1978. In both cases Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il would prefer their own personal and political security, opting for neutrality over risking their own national resources and manpower...

Second, the problem is that after 1979, the "rogue states" issue is already out of the bag. You have Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Mynanmar, Romania, and Yugoslavia all possibly grabbing Soviet and Chinese nuclear weapons. Also, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the number of "rogue states" is going to multiply....
 
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