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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by pmoriarty on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:34PM (#14102729)
That's going to make nearly no difference in case of an all-out nuclear war. Russia still has thousands of nukes, as does the US. More than enough to completely destroy both countries many times over and pretty much end civilization as the world knows it.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by hutzlibu on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:11AM (#14105333)
Well, it makes a difference in the scenario. Because in the scenario of the fiction news, russia planned a attack. It is quite unlikely, that russia would do anything like that, beeing that underpowered.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by x220 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:34PM (#14110244)
Russia wouldn't need to plan an attack and disable NATO early warning systems. If all their nukes were detonated, humanity would be doomed regardless of where they were detonated. The fallout would eventually encompass the entire earth.
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Re:The vision of nuclear holocaust in Threads (1984) remains... by hutzlibu on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:37PM (#14111105)
Yes, but as far as I know there are not suicidal. Or why do you think they would do that?
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