How quick would the earth be scorched in an actual nuclear war?

Article fails to mention the 3 UK nuclear submarines that could each wipe out Moscow, ignoring the hundreds of nukes NATO has. It isn't 1960 anymore, this nuclear dick-swinging is daft.

Let us be real tea. If one country drops nukes everyone will drop nukes

Then the movie Golden Eye would suck.

I think you'd be surprised, in the event of a nuclear launch you can assume that they will launch one or two at best lest they bring about the end of civilization as we know it...

Would you decide to counterattack with a force that would then end everything as you know it? Or would you hope it stays with one or two launches and continue to fight a conventional war?

Its not that simple.

Other Governments not scared of Terrorist we all know they are scared of Putin. Putin doesn't give a f* about anyone. Would he be alpha male? lol

Good point. I guess we would have to see once a country utilizes nuclear warheads what the response would be

hope they do it. so sick of this planet

In, before the US nukes that big ass nuke. In turn Russia nukes itself.
Das it mane

It's great that Hillary is willing to stand up to the bully from the east. That's why I'm with her, we can't let Russia get away with this.

probably wouldn't do chit

The amount of energy the Sun emits every second is the equivalent of 100 billion one-megaton nuclear weapons exploding

Ironic that she may have sold them the rights to this very uranium lol

We could blow our entire solar system up and the universe would never know it. It's probably happening somewhere else as we speak.

It's not that big.. the missile is designed to carry 10-15 individual warheads that can be assigned independent targets within a strike radius..

4 minutes.

Looks good but will it pass the toilet paper holder test?

In the opening few hours, the vast majority of the population is wiped out in the immediate detonations. Many people die from the thermal scarring, but many, many more perish from the sheer force of the bombs, the resulting fallout, the collapse of structures, the fires, and the lack of oxygen. If you are in a major city, you are dead within 24 hours, even if you avoid the actual blast. The fires will start to consume the oxygen in the area, and you will quickly suffocate even if you found shelter. Furthermore, the drastic pressure changes of a nuclear blast basically tear the body apart from the inside, especially in concern to the lungs. In this way, you will not die quickly through fire or through being blasted to pieces, but by slowly suffocating. As far as burns, well, if a 1 megaton warhead is detonated within (if I am reading the chart right) 10 kilometers of your position, you are burned to bits. Further out, you suffer some extensive, but likely non-fatal, third degree burns. Within 2 kilometers, you get fatal raditiation poisoning. Within 3, you are pretty much guaranteed acute radiation poisoning.

Now, if you are inside a reinforced structure, none of this matters so much, so long as the building you are hiding in doesn't collapse. Several people survived within a few hundred meters of the epicenter of Hiroshima because they were in concrete buildings. Nuclear blasts now-a-days are so much more powerful though, that even a reinforced building at the epicenter likely won't save you, but buildings in the surrounding area will prevent the most harmful effects.

So by staying in a building, you survive the first few minutes. You won't survive the next few hours. The atmosphere is soon to be filled with radioactive fallout and, following a total nuclear exchange, this fallout it likely to spread throughout almost all of the Northern Hemisphere. The radiation within the epicenter of the blast combines with the matter around it, which is then blown away as dust and debris by the blast itself. This nuclear ash helps spread the radiation even further.

Meanwhile, the cities are burning. Massive conflagrations have started. In the cities, this means oxygen gets consumed at an enormous rate, and smoke chokes the atmosphere. Most people hiding in the buildings die due to a lack of oxygen. The fire storms can last for years, and they will put out enough smoke to harm the climate itself. The atmosphere gets crowded with smoke, and now the growing season is dramatically reduced, if not rendered completely unusable.

Thus, we enter nuclear winter. The winters grow longer in this period. Many crops die, and the collapse of infrastructure also means food cannot go where it is needed. Even a military intervention after the exchange would likely fail to save the urban population of America. There simply isn't a way to transport enough food, and for the first few years there is little to no agricultural activity. Meanwhile, clean water also becomes inaccessible, as treatment plants no longer operate and contamination becomes rampant. H2O itself does not absorb radiation, but the particles in it can, indirectly causing radiation poisoning. Medicine is also almost impossible to come by. Combine that with malnourishment, and even simple diseases like the flu or a cold can kill adults. Every disease becomes debilitating.

So the surviving population begins to starve, dehydrate, or die of pestilence. The desperate might try to fight for resources, but it is only delaying the inevitable. Even if the government mostly escaped, there is just to much chaos to control.

By this point, things look like The Road. The forests are lifeless, destroyed by massive firestorms. The few people you encounter are eating each other. The sky is perpetually darkened by massive smoke clouds. It is colder than **** out, even in the summer months. The winters exacerbate the problems. If the bombs dropped in October like Fallout suggests, the first winter would probably kill off almost all the survivors. Only an incredibly small fraction of the population makes it past the first winter.

Most of them begin the exodus south. The southern hemisphere is still in rough shape, though. Errant radiation still reaches them, and their climate it also completely ****ed, but at least they can grow food and have some clean water access. Still, chaos has ensued in the south long before the arrival of the refugees. The governments have likely collapsed, or are in the midst of doing so. The global infrastructure collapse results in shortages of just about everything. Isolated places like Australia do okay for the first few months, but once current supplies run out, it becomes clear that the Southern Hemisphere will have to become self-reliant, but many resources are only found in the north. Thus, the Southern Hemisphere is knocked back to pre-Medieval levels. Civilization is significantly reduced.

Then the refugees come from the north, seeking the last vestige of safety, sparking even more shortages and brutal conflicts in which thousands more perish.

After this culling, the human race has been reduced to 5% of the current population, if not less. Even though the folks south of the equator survive, there are concerns of the long term genetic problems our species faces, and concerns of the utter ecological collapse. While the first decade or two might not be a worry, the ripples of the ecological collapse reach the south eventually, causing more food shortages. Meanwhile, the species is reduced to a much smaller gene pool, and one that has been affected by radiation to boot. Thus, it could be that even in the Southern Hemisphere, civilization only gets as far as two generations before our species goes extinct in the massive upheaval. Even if we don't, the world would never be the same, and it is doubtful that mankind would ever rise to the heights it once did.

Make no mistake: if nuclear war occurs, we are all dead. The Four Horsemen will be riding, and the world will be in ruin. Fallout is an optimistic view of the future. Hell, in some ways even The Road is an optimistic view. The truth is that, if the nukes fly, our days are numbered. There is no way to recover from it. It would be a slow, agonizing extinction.

Should have named it Hillary

UK brahs be like

Lawd... to be the one driving that thing around.

feels good man

Hnnnnnng

Enlightening read.

I would assume that people who have it safest, would be people living up in the tundra north thousands of miles away from civilization, perhaps in Greenland or north of the Hudson Bay (Canada) these people could have 4 or 5 year supplies of canned goods, and hunting equipment. That would be the best case scenario for survival.

This is assuming nuclear bombs only targeted major metropolitan areas.

forgive english, i am Russia.

i come to study clothing and fashion at American university. i am here little time and i am very hard stress. i am gay also and this very difficult for me, i am very religion person. i never act to be gay with other men before. but after i am in america 6 weeks i am my friend together he is gay also. He was show me American fashion and then we are kiss.

wWe sex together. I never before now am tell my mother about gay because i am very shame. As i fock this American boy it is very good to me but also i am feel so guilty. I feel extreme guilty as I begin orgasm. I feel so guilty that I pick up my telephone and call Mother in Russia. I awaken her. It too late for stopping so I am cumming sex. I am very upset and guilty and crying, so I yell her, "I AM CUM FROM SEX" (in Russia). She say what? I say "I AM CUM FROM SEX" and she say you boy, do not marry American girl, and I say "NO I AM CUM FROM SEX WITH MAN, I AM IN ASS, I CUM IN ASS" and my mother very angry me. She not get scared though.

I hang up phone and am very embarrass. My friend also he is very embarrass. I am guilt and feel very stupid. I wonder, why do I gay with man? But I continue because when it spurt it feel very good in American ass.

Antarctica

Antarctica is difficult to survive on, as is. I wouldn't want my "safe house" to be in Antarctica.

Meanwhile on the front lines of Nope-Land.

that thing would probably fall apart in the sky from using some shady rivits and siht