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Re: Nukemap

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Post by wonderwonder »

kmonsen wrote: post #19
tablespoon wrote: post #3

I was looking at this the other day, and was wondering how nuclear weapons would actually be targeted against the US. Would they be aimed at city centers or nearby infrastructure? Would each city be targeted with one warhead, or blanketed with several over a large area? Because if there's a full-scale nuclear war, if the Russians only target the center of my city, I probably have a chance of surviving. However if the…

It really doesn't matter, and honestly you probably want to die in the first blast. If there is full scale nuclear war there seems to be consensus that there will most likely be full breakdown of normal society and probably a nuclear winter. Either one of those would mean your job is probably long gone if you are an HN reader, food is going to be scarce and there is no police to protect you anymore. Basically fallout…

Each to their own but I have never understood this way of thinking. I have kids, I would want them to survive and to have a chance at life even if its not the shiny modern one. I would also want them to have kids and so on. Life would obviously be hard but it would still be life. Death comes soon enough for everyone anyway. Obviously the best outcome is no nukes at all.

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Post by k__ »

I don't know how much of what I saw online was Ukraine propaganda.

But the Russian military seems to be in bad shape. Almost nothing of the new stuff they paraded all these years is used in Ukraine.

Some people argued that it's a smart ploy, others say they simply don't have the technology in amounts that are enough for a war.

It makes me think, how many nukes does Russia actually have? How many are usable? How many are "high tech" enough so they can't be intercepted?

Re: Nukemap

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Post by Spooky23 »

tablespoon wrote: post #3

I was looking at this the other day, and was wondering how nuclear weapons would actually be targeted against the US. Would they be aimed at city centers or nearby infrastructure? Would each city be targeted with one warhead, or blanketed with several over a large area? Because if there's a full-scale nuclear war, if the Russians only target the center of my city, I probably have a chance of surviving. However if the…

I was into this topic awhile back, basically while nobody talks about the details, there are reports re the reactions of people when they learn of the details. And they are basically horrified, borderline traumatized, but cannot come up with another plan.

The number of missiles and warheads available are very high, and planners identify all sorts of targets and assign priority, etc. I would imagine that factored into that are significant operational failures, operators who refuse to act, etc.

I’d assume any military significant site, current or former industrial target, interesting infrastructure, etc would be targeted multiple times. In an area like NYC, Boston, DC, SFO, forget it. If you didn’t get vaporized, you’d probably wish you did.

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Post by throwthere »

k__ wrote: post #32

I don't know how much of what I saw online was Ukraine propaganda. But the Russian military seems to be in bad shape. Almost nothing of the new stuff they paraded all these years is used in Ukraine. Some people argued that it's a smart ploy, others say they simply don't have the technology in amounts that are enough for a war. It makes me think, how many nukes does Russia actually have? How many are usable? How many…

I guess all it takes is one

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Post by elorant »

tablespoon wrote: post #3

I was looking at this the other day, and was wondering how nuclear weapons would actually be targeted against the US. Would they be aimed at city centers or nearby infrastructure? Would each city be targeted with one warhead, or blanketed with several over a large area? Because if there's a full-scale nuclear war, if the Russians only target the center of my city, I probably have a chance of surviving. However if the…

Most probably they'll hit military bases, and airports.

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

ehsankia wrote: post #18

Common pet peeve with this site: Most people trying to share a scary screenshot will choose the largest one (Tsar Bomba 100t), of which 1 operation one was ever created, and that one has already been detonated. It's also not at all a practical bomb that would be used in practice.

On the other hand, the RS-28 is the Russian state of the art now, and is probably as deadly as the Tsar, but very practical. However, it is yet to see if it will work as advertised.

Re: Nukemap

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Post by lbotos »

c03 wrote: post #27
lkbm wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently learned about the "nuclear sponge" strategy. The US has a bunch of ICMBs stationed in remote areas in hopes of drawing nuclear strikes to those areas, away from population centers[0]. [0] https://kottke.org/20/10/americas-nuclear-sponge

However nice that sounds, that is unlikely to happen. History shows that targeting civilians is by far the most effective to make the opposition concede.

Sure, but isn't the problem "second strike": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_strike

With nukes, you gotta stop your nuclear armed opponent from killing you second, first.

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Post by [deleted] »

k__ wrote: post #32

I don't know how much of what I saw online was Ukraine propaganda. But the Russian military seems to be in bad shape. Almost nothing of the new stuff they paraded all these years is used in Ukraine. Some people argued that it's a smart ploy, others say they simply don't have the technology in amounts that are enough for a war. It makes me think, how many nukes does Russia actually have? How many are usable? How many…

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Re: Nukemap

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Post by baby »

Not that bad? Looks like it would require a bunch of bombs to really annihilate the human race. Just don't live in NYC I guess.
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