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Are you scared by the thought of Nuclear War?
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Yes it's very good.
Yes, to the OP.
I empathise a little, for some reason my brain works that way. The thought does come up every so often (similar to the musings of my own mortality), however I am generally reassured by the concept of mutually assured destruction. Also the fact that Russia ain't what it was.
Threads was great for its time, I can't imagine living under the threat as it was in the 60's up to the 80's when I was born.
I would add though I don't fear it, as if it did ever happen you'd be dead either way. All men have to die somehow.
I empathise a little, for some reason my brain works that way. The thought does come up every so often (similar to the musings of my own mortality), however I am generally reassured by the concept of mutually assured destruction. Also the fact that Russia ain't what it was.
Threads was great for its time, I can't imagine living under the threat as it was in the 60's up to the 80's when I was born.
I would add though I don't fear it, as if it did ever happen you'd be dead either way. All men have to die somehow.
I concur, I think it's not say my own death, but the thought of everything you've ever known and loved being obliterated. It's the thought of everyone just being gone I guess.
Yes, pretty much. I think its the anger I have in me in case it did ever happen, with war on that scale its well out your grasp to intervene or 'do your part'.
No, I don't believe there's a chance of large scale nuclear war now. I also don't believe that any terrorist faction has the funds/expertise/facilities to prepare a nuclear device. A dirty bomb is much more feasible, but then this is much less effective in killing, although it would raise large levels of panic obviously.
Threads was "OK" but it didn't really detail much about how the human race can get it into that position in the first place. For that I recommend a movie called "Thirteen Days"... or simply read the book. It's all about the Cuban Missile crisis and accurately depicts how easy it is for two countries to escalate and escalate the stakes before the inevitable happens.
You have to wonder if it's actually possible for two nations with "sane" leaders to actually execute a "MAD" (mutually assured destruction) scenario. If you really think about it in depth it comes across as almost paradoxical because that's how ****** up and illogical it is.
You have to wonder if it's actually possible for two nations with "sane" leaders to actually execute a "MAD" (mutually assured destruction) scenario. If you really think about it in depth it comes across as almost paradoxical because that's how ****** up and illogical it is.
I don't think would be a nuclear war now, I think its only a matter of time till someone sets off an RDD. They however, are nothing really in comparison. Terrorists getting hold if missiles is doubful imo. Does still cross my mind though.
I was going to add.. you have to think why a dozon or so people in the world have the power to end it all.
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I'll be impressed if you can justify that in some way.
I can't speak for Mik3 but since humankind are the ones who invented atom bombs you can easily make an argument they should be the ones to suffer from them, except they don't have specific targeting like that. So unfortunately the Earth and all species upon it will be affected if we ever reach a situation where MAD occurs which is rather a pity given that it is mainly humans who are a bunch of tools and have the power to ruin the Earth for the next 10,000 odd years.
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Being nuked does not worry me, its surviving and seeing all the scum that will take advantage of the situation.
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id like to add (unless someone said already), there is absolutely no way that there will be a large scale nuclear war, and the MAD concept is really stupid, for example, if the USA nukes iraq for a random reason, those people would expect china to nuke the UK or other random nonsense. instead what will happen is that they may be nukes used although still unlikely will not start a global nuclear war.
i also believe that single low yeild nuclear device detonated by random terrorist factions is entirely possible, after all all you need fissile material and the bomb is easy to contruct if you have background in physics.
but to answer the primary question i wouldnt mind a global nuclear war because atleast in that there is less stress/deadlines. although depending on the scale, the bio-sphere would be really messed up so it would be good to build a bunker with 20 years+ of supplies and enough hard drives/small nuclear reactor to live
(and ofcourse everything from overclockers so you can build computers and mod them to burn time)
i also believe that single low yeild nuclear device detonated by random terrorist factions is entirely possible, after all all you need fissile material and the bomb is easy to contruct if you have background in physics.
but to answer the primary question i wouldnt mind a global nuclear war because atleast in that there is less stress/deadlines. although depending on the scale, the bio-sphere would be really messed up so it would be good to build a bunker with 20 years+ of supplies and enough hard drives/small nuclear reactor to live
(and ofcourse everything from overclockers so you can build computers and mod them to burn time)
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thats because the missle is much more complicated/expensive than the nuclear warhead contained inside it
