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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I recall the cold war and the constant fear that we could have a nuclear war.
I recall the Cuban missile crisis and wondering how long the world would survive.
I have not worried about such a threat for many years but it occurred to me that we probably have more to worry about today than in the past.
Do you think there is a real and growing danger of a nuclear war starting anywhere in the world. There seem to be a couple of places in the world where neighbours have nuclear weapons, or trying to get them, that the parties would seem ready to use such an option.
I am curious to hear what others think.
And if such a war happened would it mean the human race would vanish, go back to cave like life style or someone win and life goes on?
Alex
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The obvious candidates are North Korea V ? (They reckon they can hit the U.S. now but are psycho enough to do anything), Pakistan V India; some radical islamic nut job and, of course, we now have the Trump factor. He's stupid enough to escalate something during a tantrum, but I suspect someone in govt there may arrange a new conspiracy theory for us if he really loses the Taco.
Consequences;
Limited exchange scenario, like India V Pakistan; we may finally get the idea that we need to grow up as a species; couple of hundred million dead and dying would open a few eyes.
Escalating exchange scenario, (like the start of WWI), Well, we can hope the rodents will make a better go of it.
Judgement Day scenario is pretty accurate except there is no sky net... yet.
Nobody wins a nuclear war, that was the whole premise of the MAD doctrine. In an insane way, it works until some numb nut thinks otherwise. Declassified documents have revealed we have already come very close a number of times because of insanity, paranoia or human error.... very common traits in the species and all on display at the highest levels right now.
There was a film a few decades back where the northern hemisphere nuked itself but the southern hemisphere did not. A U.S. nuke sub came to Melbourne and Australia waited to see if the fall-out would head south or not during the monsoon. It does and the population suicides... noice...
The planet would go on but it would certainly be different to what we know. Don't know if I'd want to survive the aftermath. Knowing human nature, I suspect it would be very ugly.
