Current Events > US-Russia nuclear exchange increasingly likely, would kill 90+ million people

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in opening hours.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-russia-nuclear-war-trump-putin-simulation-europe-nato-a9109116.html

More than 90 million people would be killed or injured in a nuclear war between the US and Russia if a conventional conflict went too far, according to a new simulation created by researchers.

Such a scenario has become dramatically more plausible in the last two years because the two countries have dropped support for arms-control measures, according to a team from Princeton University.

The simulation, the result of a study at Princetons Science and Global Security programme (SGS), suggests 34 million people would be killed and 57 million injured in the first hours of an all-out nuclear conflagration not counting those left ill by fallout and other long-term problems.

In the animation, electronic trails of ballistic missiles arc across the screen, before blossoming into a carpet of white discs.

Worldwide destruction would include the nuclear incineration of Europe, which the Princeton scientists claimed could be brought about by the escalation of a conventional war between Russia and Nato.

They say: In hopes of halting a US-Nato advance, Russia launches a nuclear warning shot from a base near the city of Kaliningrad. Nato retaliates with a single tactical nuclear air strike.

As the nuclear threshold is crossed, fighting escalates to a tactical nuclear war in Europe. Russia sends 300 nuclear warheads via aircraft and short-range missiles to hit Nato bases and advancing troops. Nato responds with approximately 180 nuclear warheads via aircraft.

After that, hundreds of further strikes are made on both sides against military nuclear forces. In the video, Russias red streaks lift away from the ground moments before Americas rain of blue obliterates swathes of the country; then, Moscows bombs crash into the US from coast to coast.

Later, Washington and Moscow would both target population centres, with up to 10 missiles per city from their remaining submarine arsenals.

SGS claims the video is based on real force postures, targets and fatality estimates. The first simulated nuclear blast appears to occur just inside Poland, near Wroclaw and the borders with Germany and the Czech Republic.

@DuncanWii was right all along
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Hell yeah! Lets just end it all.
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omg maybe he actually does have a gf as well?!
how could i have doubted!
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I wish it happen very soon
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Wow a lot of people would die if we nuked each other who would've thought that thanks scientists
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Looks like it's time for the 10am dose of fearmongering
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SubtletyRefuge posted...

Whew sure glad Im not living in the 1st world right now.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Looks like it's time for the 10am dose of fearmongering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecPeSmF_ikc" data-time="
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I dont think anyone here doubts that a nuclear war would end civilization as we know it. It would kill everyone.

Also I marked posts 2 and 5. Hope a warning is worth your misanthropic feelings.
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I can't wait for someone to actually design a liveable O'Neill Cylinder that allows us to orbit a distant planet. That way if someone looses a nuke at us we'll know long before it arrives and can plan for it.
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Hanky_Bannister posted...

SubtletyRefuge posted...

Whew sure glad Im not living in the 1st world right now.

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Goats posted...

I can't wait for someone to actually design a liveable O'Neill Cylinder that allows us to orbit a distant planet. That way if someone looses a nuke at us we'll know long before it arrives and can plan for it.

This details a full on attack though. You cant evacuate 90 million people.
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Duncanwii posted...

Also I marked posts 2 and 5. Hope a warning is worth your misanthropic feelings.

I don't see any mention of nihilism in the TOS.

seems like war w/ Iran is more possible than this
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On the bright side for me, I feel Russia would not want to nuke Alaska because they want it back and because it might ruin it's resources that they desire. I might just have to live under Russian occupation

That's only 1% of the world population. I think we'll do just fine. ;)

Send for the man...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrXSJHFKx-8" data-time="

Zikten posted...

On the bright side for me, I feel Russia would not want to nuke Alaska because they want it back and because it might ruin it's resources that they desire. I might just have to live under Russian occupation

Which would be the fault of trump, not hillary. Looks like you voted incorrectly :(
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Nuclear annihilation only concerns me if I'm somewhere that won't kill me but fallout is a possibility.

Being vaporized is...I mean it's nothing. But having to endure a slow death from radiation poisoning is horrifying.
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300 missles in one city

Goddamn
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Solid Sonic posted...

Nuclear annihilation only concerns me if I'm somewhere that won't kill me but fallout is a possibility.

Being vaporized is...I mean it's nothing. But having to endure a slow death from radiation poisoning is horrifying.

What makes you think it's just vaporization or fallout? What if you were at a distance to where your flesh was seared alive? Or like those poor men who got exposed to a nuclear test, only to end up with cancer? Did you know that nukes are powerful enough to hurt someone's children before they're conceived? Or you could simply be crushed under the rubble of a building and left to slowly die. The Terminator 2 scene is more accurate than you want to believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjatJ36cJvM" data-time="&start=82
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It must suck to always live in fear of even still highly implausible events.
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Duncanwii posted...

I dont think anyone here doubts that a nuclear war would end civilization as we know it. It would kill everyone.

Also I marked posts 2 and 5. Hope a warning is worth your misanthropic feelings.

Literally "reeeeeeeeee!!!!"
Quit being a bitch.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Looks like it's time for the 10am dose of fearmongering

get that daily from foxnews scientists turn baby
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ScazarMeltex posted...

Duncanwii posted...

I dont think anyone here doubts that a nuclear war would end civilization as we know it. It would kill everyone.

Also I marked posts 2 and 5. Hope a warning is worth your misanthropic feelings.

Literally "!!!!"
Quit being a bitch.

You can't say that word. Literally got modded for saying that
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What even were those posts?
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