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David Korabell's avatar

Everybody assumes a nuclear war means a global strategic conflagration - It could be a historical repeat - a few cities bombed into craters until the opposition capitulates.

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Landru's avatar

Gambling with Armageddon, nope don't bet on it. Today, is not 1945. One 100 megaton weapon in Chicago would end life as we know it for decades. Most of us would die of starvation. When you launch you don't launch one. What's not so funny, Russia has proved their anti-ballistic missile system work at a very, very high level with this practice we provided. We in the u.s. have little to none in defensive systems at home. On The Beach.

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Anti-Hip's avatar

In 1945, *one* country had the bomb. They could game it that way then, but not now.

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jamenta's avatar

Not everybody, apparently the idiots in Washington seem to think a Nuclear escalation could be controllable.

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