RE: Nuclear war survival guide.
February 26, 2022 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2022 at 12:38 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Just to put some perspective on the extinctions and not wanting to live past a nuclear war, While it may be hard to believe, your chances for surviving a nuclear war is far higher today than during the Cold War, and the post war world would be far more likely yo be livable, particularly if you don’t live in the US or European Russia because:
1. the entire world’s nuclear stockpile is ~13000 warheads, in 1983, it was ~80,000 warheads.
2. Right now an nuclear exchange is likely to involve primarily 2 nations, not two global spanning coalitions bristling with arms and tied into rehearsed operational plans, so if you live outside the US or Russia, your chances of not having any nukes exploding within a thousand miles of you is much higher than it was during the Cold War.
3. outside the nuclear arena the world is not locked into massive hair trigger conventional confrontation as between the forces NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, so the often neglected threat of globe spanning conventional forces deploying chemical and biological weapons on a massive scale in field and urban battles across the Eurasian comtinent that existed during the Cold War isn’t here today
4. A far higher percentage of the world’s industrial and technological infrastructure today is outside of US and Russia, or European where the old core grounds of nuclear confrontation was. So a nuclear exchange today involving the US and Russia will leave a lot more of the modern world intact and ready to affect a postwar restoration
5. Still sucks to live in America or European Russia if a nuclear war happens, but hey, you are looking at maybe 5000 warheads scheduled to ruin your day rather than say 30,000, that’s still something, right?
1. the entire world’s nuclear stockpile is ~13000 warheads, in 1983, it was ~80,000 warheads.
2. Right now an nuclear exchange is likely to involve primarily 2 nations, not two global spanning coalitions bristling with arms and tied into rehearsed operational plans, so if you live outside the US or Russia, your chances of not having any nukes exploding within a thousand miles of you is much higher than it was during the Cold War.
3. outside the nuclear arena the world is not locked into massive hair trigger conventional confrontation as between the forces NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, so the often neglected threat of globe spanning conventional forces deploying chemical and biological weapons on a massive scale in field and urban battles across the Eurasian comtinent that existed during the Cold War isn’t here today
4. A far higher percentage of the world’s industrial and technological infrastructure today is outside of US and Russia, or European where the old core grounds of nuclear confrontation was. So a nuclear exchange today involving the US and Russia will leave a lot more of the modern world intact and ready to affect a postwar restoration
5. Still sucks to live in America or European Russia if a nuclear war happens, but hey, you are looking at maybe 5000 warheads scheduled to ruin your day rather than say 30,000, that’s still something, right?
