WI Nuclear Exchange on the Subcontinent

Let's say that during one of the Indo-Pakistani Wars, say in 1971 or 1999, India and Pakistan end up exchanging nukes. Millions die and the governments of both states are decapitated.

What happens next? What effects does this cause on the world stage, not to mention neighboring countries such as China? Would other, similarly armed countries fire their own weapons when they notice the launches (i.e., US and USSR)? Would a nuclear exchange like this retard Asian development and/or would it give greater credence to worldwide anti-nuclear weapons movements?
 
dont think other nuclear powers would follow suit. Pakistan gets the worse of it in terms of exploded megatonage and recovery. biggest problem for both would be starvation the following years.

cuz ALOT of empty stomachs always lead to civil unrest
 
Neither had nukes, as far as we know, in 1971. India's first test was in 1974, and-at least according to wikipedia-the Pakistani development program didn't start until 1972. So they're not going to have a nuclear war in 1971 without a much earlier PoD.
 

Hnau

Banned
I calculated about a loss of 2.25 degrees Celsius across the Northern Hemisphere following an engagement as in Hell's Door Opened.
 
Yeah, I always wondered about that. I mean, a nuclear war would dump an enourmous amount to heat into the atmosphere, which you would figure would raise global climates. But if it's the firestorms and not just the groundbursts that are blotting out the sun, I guess that makes more sense.

no
its depens wat tharget you hit: City or underground bunker

Michael Mills and Owen B. Toon from University of Colorado
made simulation of small Nuclear war India and Pakistan with 50 Nukes and Nuclear winter senario

also senario with 100 nukes with 15 kt (1.5 MT) would produce five million tonnes of dirt into the air
In large parts of North America and Eurasia, the temperature falls by several degrees,
In the affected regions was also the biggest part of the grain-growing areas.
Even in the world, far from the place of nuclear war, there would be major climatic consequences. "
That of a regional nuclear war could take up to ten years !!!

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after Nuclear winter ? Ultraviolet summer !

In the middle latitudes, according to scientists, a loss of up to 40 percent of ozone are expected
This decrease in the ozone layer varies according to latitude, but for three years,
the average global shift to the level of today's Antarctic ozone hole to fall.
From sunlight caused damage in plants would According to the calculations
132 percent increase, people would have an increase of 213 percent for DNA damage can be expected.

source german news online magazinze der Spiegel
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/n...546088,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m...453835,00.html

Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict by O. B. Toon
http://lasp.colorado.edu/aerosol/mil...eOzoneLoss.pdf

Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts
and acts of individual nuclear terrorism by O. B. Toon
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/197...-1973-2007.pdf

Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts by O. B. Toon
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/200...-2003-2007.pdf

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/nuclear/
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/ro..._nwpapers.html
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/nu...bsoptdaily.gif
 

Vivisfugue

Banned
Not to be macabre, but if there is an Indo-Pakistani nuclear war, the next time your parents have to reinstall Windows, there will be no one on the other end of the help line and you will have to do it!:eek:
 
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