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It depends on what sort of nuclear war. If its N Korea or Iran detonating a few high over the US to knock out the grid with EMP, then it will be mostly about t
by tomohawk 5y ago
It depends on what sort of nuclear war.
If its N Korea or Iran detonating a few high over the US to knock out the grid with EMP, then it will be mostly about trying to avoid/outlast all the people who don't have a few months of food and water.
If it's the "big one", then that's another thing.
The kind you see in the movies with thousands of missiles in the air all at once is probably not how it would go down. It would be volleys back and forth for months on end. Modern nukes are very powerful. You can't send too many to the same area at the same time. Probably not survivable.
The US has a very old nuclear missile fleet, but Russia has a brand new one, including the RS-28, which can haul 50 megatons of mirved warheads. That's probably enough to obliterate France or Texas in one go.