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Originally posted by YayMayorBee
I would assume its much better in the interest of china that (for now) they remain friendly to the US and let NK be a pawn to fall orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
This is much bigger and perhaps the first step to the last days of the United States because Russia, China etc are ready now.
I mean the US is sorta spread out right now all over and exhausted from the middle East.
Originally posted by KingDoey
reply to post by elouina
To be honest with you it IS the Americans I am more worried about. You say that they should strike quickly, yet that is just the typical American gungho attitude. Shoot first and dont worry about the consequences.
If Nuclear armegeddon is to follow I am sure it will be the USA that initiates it.
Originally posted by all2human
reply to post by harbour45
ww3 is not profitable,just off the top of my head,nor is a planet left uninhabitableedit on 1-4-2013 by all2human because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
reply to post by UnBreakable
I don't get this uninhabitable talk..
Google image search Hiroshima city..
Then Google search world surface area in meters squared.
the world would survive a nuclear war!
Here it's important to point out that the 100 Hiroshima-size weapons detonated in Robock and Toon's regional war scenario contain less than 1 percent of the combined explosive power in the 7,000 or so operational and deployed nuclear weapons the United States and Russia possess. If even one-half of these weapons were detonated in urban areas, Robock and Toon have predicted that the resulting nuclear darkness would cause daily minimum temperatures to fall below freezing in the largest agricultural areas of the Northern Hemisphere for a period of between one to three years. Meanwhile, average global surface temperatures would become colder than those experienced 18,000 years ago at the height of the last Ice Age.
Their article, "Local Nuclear War: Global Suffering," PDF predicts that the detonation of 100 15-kiloton nuclear weapons in Indian and Pakistani megacities would create urban firestorms that would loft 5 million tons of thick, black smoke above cloud level. (This smoke would engulf the entire planet within 10 days.) Because the smoke couldn't be rained out, it would remain in the stratosphere for at least a decade and have profoundly disruptive effects. Specifically, the smoke layer would block sunlight, heat the upper atmosphere, and cause massive destruction of protective stratospheric ozone. A 2008 study PDF calculated ozone losses (after the described conflict) of 25-45 percent above mid-latitudes and 50-70 percent above northern high latitudes persisting for five years, with substantial losses continuing for another five years. Such severe ozone depletion would allow intense levels of harmful ultraviolet light to reach Earth's surface--even with the stratospheric smoke layer in place.
finally, the Tzar Bomba—the largest nuclear weapon humanity has ever concocted. A real doomsday device. "Only" 16,000 would toast the whole planet. Of course, none of these figures take fallout and other atmospheric effects into account—just square mileage blown away. So it'd actually, technically, require fewer warheads to exterminate our species. But that's irrelevant, Maximilian points out: "There are an estimated total of 20,500 nuclear warheads in the world today. If the average power of these devices is 33,500 Kilotons, there are enough to destroy the total earth landmass." And why do we need so many of these things again?
Originally posted by KingDoey
reply to post by elouina
To be honest with you it IS the Americans I am more worried about. You say that they should strike quickly, yet that is just the typical American gungho attitude. Shoot first and dont worry about the consequences.
If Nuclear armegeddon is to follow I am sure it will be the USA that initiates it.
Originally posted by Gazrok
China is probably gearing up to handle any potential refugee problems.