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Nobody will believe any such promise anyway. The real solution is continued reduction in the number of arms. Russia and America need to reduce to ~1000 each or
by rhino369 9y ago
Nobody will believe any such promise anyway. The real solution is continued reduction in the number of arms. Russia and America need to reduce to ~1000 each or less.
There is a belief that any nuclear war will destroy the world, but that isn't true. A global war would be horrific, but civilization would survive. A war with 2-3k nuclear detonations is better than one with 20k.
Particularly, tactical nuclear weapons need to be destroyed. They are more likely to be used because they aren't a holocaust on a rocket like strategic weapons are.
- jacquesm 9y ago> A global war would be horrific, but civilization would survive. Humanity will survive. Civilization will be utterly destroyed for a long time to come.
- excalibur 9y agoIn the event of a massive nuclear conflict, the destruction of civilization is a given. The survival of humanity is far less so, but it's certainly possible.
- jacquesm 9y agoOne of the things that my travels have shown me is that there are people everywhere. To eradicate humanity completely is an exceedingly hard task. Maybe a massive nuclear conflict would destroy civilization and our knowledge to the point that the last ones alive would simply give up, but we're an incredibly hardy and adaptive species. See: Greenland, the Andes, Nepal, Siberia, Nunavut (36000 people on 2 million square kilometers, you'd have to roughly assign one bomb per person to ensure you got everybody) and so on. Some of those places are likely to be on somebodies annihilation short list, but all of them would require a degree of carpet bombing with nukes that I highly doubt it will happen. Though Washington DC, and just about every other major capital would very likely be a smoking crater.
- icc97 9y agoIt depends on the length and area of the nuclear winter, not on bombing each individual. There would be the added genetic destruction through radiation, so it's not just like surviving Siberia. Also the humans that survived through Greenland had prepared for generations to live in hardship. Those left after any nuclear war certainly won't have been living their lives in nuclear winter world, no matter how good the doomsday peppers think they are.
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- rhino369 9y agoDepends on what you define as civilization (are America and Brazil part of the same Civiilization)? But entire continents (S. America and Africa) would be entirely untouched by direct attacks. The only risk of total collapse is deep and long nuclear winter. Even in that event (which I don't really think is realistic) coastal areas would fare better.