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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
What do you mean? That was a pretty good post he made.
Anyhow, thanks for helping me out, guys. It's just a bit jarring the first time you truly realise 'oh crap, somebody could start a nuclear war'.
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I think he meant it in the good way.
It was a good post indeed.
I know that feeling though, I must admit the first time I was fully aware of it was when Russian forces rolled through Serbia and into Kosovo to set up around Pristina airport, and my spidey sense weren't far off because World War III nearly did happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciden...istina_airport 
However, as a kid in the 1980s I remained blissfully unaware, being only vaguely aware of the disaster at Chernobyl (I remember seeing news footage of people in Wales pouring milk down the drain and thinking it rather odd) and West and East Germany was a normal thing (I still have a toy around somewhere with 'Made in West Germany' on it), the only time I really noticed the Cold War was when the Berlin wall came down in '89, and whilst I had no idea what it was all about, it was clear through the news coverage and peoples expressions that it was an important thing.
Still, even if anything did kick off, which is unlikely, you're in a pretty safe area, Russia has no beef with Oz, although in the New World Order (TM) post-bomb, you'd probably become a Chinese outpost unless the US takes out China on its way down in which case you'd probably get some buckets from the Chinese, but given the size of Australia it'd probably only be the major cities that get hit, the outlying areas would escape relatively unscatched, and since you're in the Southern hemisphere you wouldn't need to worry so much about the chaos up North which would probably have a few cloudy nights from all the dust and debris kicked up. Australia and South America would probably be the leaders of any relief effort that came across the equator.
It takes a lot to kill off a planet, and an exchange would put us back about 300 years, but it wouldn't kill the human civilization off.
An asteroid on the other hand....
