It seems it would depend on the power grid more than anything. Take out 70% fmlarge cities that still leaves half the population. If the power grid could be patched and gotten back on line reasonably soon, we wouldn't loose civilization. We would just be not rich any more for awhile.Oh, I agree. (I assume you mean "fusion" rather than "fission", but that doesn't really matter).
The idea that all life or even all humankind would be destroyed is fanciful.
I think it is true, however, that a nuclear war that involved, let's say, 70% of large cities would end life as we know it. All the structures of civilization - government, law, communications, transportation, material logistics - would be finished, and survivors would be scrambling for themselves for quite a while until some kind of civilization could be rebuilt. That will be a very nasty experience for all but the strongest, and possibly even for them. I would expect that some kind of civilization would emerge quite a bit faster than it did the first time around for us, because there would be people with memory of the technologies and institutions we've used, at least for a few decades. A lot would depend on how much they could pass on before dying off, because much of the information needed would evaporate from electronic storage. Books would become very important again.
Yea I was asking for your source for this info.Because 8 years ago is when the Pentagon started studying the effects of multiple nukes at once rather than trying to extrapolate an entire war from one explosion?
What part isn't getting through, here?
It seems it would depend on the power grid more than anything. Take out 70% fmlarge cities that still leaves half the population. If the power grid could be patched and gotten back on line reasonably soon, we wouldn't loose civilization. We would just be not rich any more for awhile.
I don't know enough to say.Of course, it's all speculative, but I disagree. The electromotive pulse would knock out pretty much all of the power grid. And possibly more important, the organizations that fix powergrids and the tools they use to fix them would be gone.
i believe that approach defies the concept of mutually assured destruction
where both sides would expect to launch everything they had against the other to take out the opposition
i believe the star wars approach ronnie raygun advocated alarmed the USSR, being unable to match the perception that our nukes would arrive on target while the ruskies' would largely be destroyed before reaching target
probably a massive bluff that worked
i believe your presentation is similar to the star wars bluff
It seems it would depend on the power grid more than anything. Take out 70% fmlarge cities that still leaves half the population. If the power grid could be patched and gotten back on line reasonably soon, we wouldn't loose civilization. We would just be not rich any more for awhile.
Of course, it's all speculative, but I disagree. The electromotive pulse would knock out pretty much all of the power grid. And possibly more important, the organizations that fix powergrids and the tools they use to fix them would be gone.
The we used on Japan stayed fairly localized, and those were much more dirty than today's bombsAnd all modern vehicles and communication and computerized devices (including diagnostic tools).
The we used on Japan stayed fairly localized, and those were much more dirty than today's bombs
Ok even given that, it seems the japan bombs were localized.That's really not true.
Today's hydrogen bombs are ignited using plutonium bombs bigger than the ones used on Japan. And they have U235 fission boosters that add yet more fission products to the mix.
It's possible to overestimate the consequences of a nuclear war. Some people seem to think that everyone on earth would be wiped out immediately, or that everyone on earth would die soon after. That's not realistic.
But it's also possible to underestimate the consequences. It would certainly be the end of anything like civilization for a long time.
The we used on Japan stayed fairly localized, and those were much more dirty than today's bombs
That's because you were wanting to know if others would.I didn't claim I was going to use idoline.
Nay sorryThat's because you were wanting to know if others would.
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