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There are not enough nukes luckily. 80% of humanity would be wiped out but remote places like Australia, Siberia and parts of Africa would be unaffected, so in
by leccine 12y ago
There are not enough nukes luckily. 80% of humanity would be wiped out but remote places like Australia, Siberia and parts of Africa would be unaffected, so in theory humanity could survive. The biggest problem is that potable water would be a problem since you don't have any infrastructure left to clean it, but of course those remote locations could fetch clean water if they are lucky. In the last centuries we got child mortality rate really low, that would probably go back to 40-50% like in the middle age. The life in the post nuclear war world would be very difficult, you probably know what I mean if you ever played with Fallout.
- clef 12y agoI'm not too sure Australia would be unaffected, there are quite a few US bases / radar stations etc on Aussie soil...the Chinese/Russians may not like it if it came to a head..Antarctica and Greenland maybe?
- leccine 12y agoWell you have to consider the size of that continent. I am not saying it would be 100% unaffected but remote locations like North-West Australia has literary nothing there to attack. Some small towns and that is it.
- clef 12y agoThat's right, there are locations here that literally mean : nowhere
- mildtrepidation 12y agoI'd have a hard time calling humanity surviving a win here. But then I am pretty good at the Fallout games (as long as you're talking about 1, 2, or Tactics), so maybe if I move to Australia I'll have a better chance in the post-nuclear wasteland. As long as I don't piss off Max, I guess.
- bleair 12y agoThere is the theory that a "cobalt bomb" would be pretty effective in wiping out humanity. http://www.rense.com/general40/dooms.htm http://www.rense.com/general40/dooms.htm Cobalt's half-life, ability to be transported around the planet's atmosphere as dust, and the the type of radiation that cobalit-60 produces makes for a pretty good theoretical doomsday device.
- leccine 12y agoYou still can't hit 100% of Earth at once. Co-60 has longer half-time but you still need to distribute it to everywhere and that is very difficult.