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A lot of that stuff you quote is pretty garbage.the bitcoin of weed posted:one of pakistan, india, and china is absolutely going to start a war over their shared water sources in the himalayas once those start to dry up. israel probably will if we ever get a sympathetic government here that tells them to cool it with the genocide This is probably going to come true though. 
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Willie Tomg posted:Probably. I kinda like some of that analysis, but I suspect the guy who closes his lecture with an extended hypothetical with women being turned into walking Axlotl tanks by the remains of society might be winging a few details. I went to the DOE for work, got my clearance, read some scenarios, and I'll say this: Mad Max ain't too far off once you hit the 2,000 warhead scenarios of a US/Russia/China(kinda, sorta) kind of exchange, even if most of them are assumed to be spent trying to bust other nuke silos in a first strike. A dozen smuggled into the right places (think major ports and naval bases) would push the U.S. into a depression that would be far greater than the Great Depression, and probably kick off one hell of a worldwide depression since the U.S. dollar underpins everything. Oh, and I personally don't like our ability to detect smuggled nukes. I see nuclear terrorism with some of the missing USSR warheads being a likelihood up there with the India, Pakistan, and China. If Israel ever used nukes, they'd be a pariah state, and they know just how dependent they are on the rest of the world. Either we all sing kumbaya, kill capitalism and get along, or we are in for a hell of a century. H.P. Hovercraft posted:remember when trump wanted to reverse course on how we were drawning down our nuclear arsenal and then put rick perry in charge In the weeks before I left, they stopped the plutonium downblending operation to restart warhead pit production.
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twoday posted:I read somewhere that nuclear winter wouldn’t actually happen and that the whole theory was soviet propaganda meant to deter an American nuclear strike; thoughts? Pretty much, You want airbursts for maximum spread of the "boom" to hit the ground, not kick up dirt. Duscat posted:nuclear war will be started by the united states I don't agree with the America-centric viewpoint you got there, but as to the rest: Because after 2000 with the estimates we have, we all just throw up our hands and hope that nobody bothered to nuke South America so *somebody* has a civilization to work with to pick up the pieces, because the places that did get nuked with that much stuff aren't really going to be worth considering as a country. We currently have overkill for our overkill, out of the assumption that our opponents could probably knock a few down before they reach their target... by blowing up nukes in the flight path of our warheads. It's pretty metal/mental when you read up enough on it. The Dipshit has issued a correction as of 17:43 on Aug 23, 2018 |
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Rookoo posted:Really interesting thread, thanks for the posts. One thing I find myself wondering is how many people would actually bother to go on if society is rapidly chucked back to the middle ages. It's one thing if your life has always been tough and it's been a struggle to survive, but the modern western population is generally seen as pretty fat and soft nowadays, even compared to the people kicking around in the 40s during WW2. People can get tough really loving quick, I wouldn't expect terribly too many people to just lay down and die because they can't play Pokemon Go or sleep comfortably in the summer.
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