User blog comment:Glflegolas/Human Extinction -- are we approaching the Doomsday?/@comment-27723099-20150310140015/@comment-4750818-20150310181126

Even if the U.S.S.R., China, North Korea, and the U.S.A. send nuclear missiles at each other, it's not going to kill all the people in the world. Not every country is allied with one of those countries (think South American and African countries). If a nuclear war started between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. (the most likely countries to go to war), it would probably go as follows:


 * U.S. attacks the U.S.S.R. and shoots missiles at Moscow.
 * Seeing missiles approaching Moscow, the U.S.S.R. immediately shoots missiles at Washington D.C.
 * The U.S. shoots missiles at Soviet missile launchers. France and the U.K. join in and do the same.
 * The U.S.S.R. does the same, launching missiles at any First World missile centres.
 * Soviet and Western missiles hit their targets. Both the U.S.A. (and its allies) and the U.S.S.R. are rendered incapable of launching any further attacks.

In the end, the countries that wouldn't be destroyed would be those that don't have nuclear weapons, or the ones that didn't join in the war. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. will prioritize destroying countries that have nuclear weapons before anything else. In the process, they'd destroy one another, and the rest of the world would not be destroyed.

If you're thinking "won't nuclear fallout destroy the rest of the world?" then you're probably wrong. The fallout from most missiles is less than that from the atomic bombs of yesteryear (they use much less uranium and plutonium), and the world's wind patterns won't be capable of carrying it all around the world.

Also keep in mind that over 2000 atomic weapons have been tested over the past 60 or so years, and that the fallout from those hasn't killed us yet.

Glflegolas (admin) Send a Messenger 18:11, March 10, 2015 (UTC)