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Originally Posted by August
Well I would venture to say that even with only 75 of our ICBMs and 50 of yours making it to target most of them multiple warhead rockets it won't much matter who has what left anyways. We'll have irradiated both our countries into the stone age.
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^ This. It just doe snot matter.
There is a reason why in this context time and again the term "overkill capacities" gets mentioned.
Shooting your head with 3 shots through both brain hemispheres, or with 30 or with 300, makes no difference. The result is always the same.
A full exchnage would not stop with just 150 missiles, btw. The arsenals would be spent competely (flooding the enemy's defences). Enormous ammounts of dust and ashes in the air, dust from the nuclear detonatiosn,a nd smoke and ashes from the hundreds of thousands of fires following in their wake. Vegetation dying even in parts fot he world that saw no direct impacts, due to sunlight losses in the range of factors between 50 and 100. Higher animal life forms dying, insects being good candidtes to survive - and threatenign every attempt for agriculture some years later. If then sufficient social structure still is there to run siomething like agriculture. Biospheric homeostasis completely off balance in many parts of Earth'S surface, with most animal life gone or at risk. Climate change, nuclear winter.
You cannot prepare for this, you cannot manage this, you cannot control this. Civilizational structures would desintegrate in reverse order of how their formed up or were built. The complex structures go first. No communication. No traffic. No transportation. Means: no trade. No medical drugs. No food. No gas and heating oil. No replacement of reserves being consumed. No state law and order. Anarchy. The rule of the strongest.
No gender equality debates. No climate saving policies. No injections at the dentists. Damn, not even the dentists without inhjections.
Pain. Agony. Dying. Despair. Hopelessness. And the omnipresent monuments ans signs of what once was, but is no more, and dear things and loved ones gone forever, killed and vaporized in unimaginable quantities.
Surviving to endure this, is no victory. It is the penultimate penalty.