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What Happens If Russia Attacks With Nuclear Weapons?
19FortyFive ^ | 10/9/2022 | Robert Farley

Posted on 10/09/2022 8:18:17 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

The impact of the use of a nuclear device in Ukraine will depend on the details. Like any large-scale industrial army, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have obvious pressure points that would be vulnerable to nuclear attack. These include logistical centers, command and communications nodes, and concentrations of front-line forces. During the Cold War the Soviet Union expected to use tactical nuclear weapons against NATO (and expected that NATO would use them in return) and it is therefore likely that the Russian armed forces have workable theories as to how they might best use tactical nukes to inflict damage on Ukraine’s fielded forces.

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To: TTFlyer
And it's one, two, three ..
What are we fightin' for?
Don't ask me, I couldn't care less,
The next stop is in Donetsk ...

And it's five, six, seven ..
Open up those Pearly Gates;
Well, there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopie, we're all gonna die.

121 posted on 10/09/2022 11:02:56 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Czech_Occidentalist

All of Europe has enough assets to defeat Russia.
The US isn’t Europe’s police.


122 posted on 10/09/2022 11:03:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: 353FMG

You should not be a general to see the obvious.


123 posted on 10/09/2022 11:03:13 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Textide
Russia gets split up like Germany after WWII

If you recall, destroying and occupying Germany cost 25 million lives and six years of war.

How do you envision that happening? And what do you think Russia would be willing to do to prevent that outcome?

124 posted on 10/09/2022 11:04:14 AM PDT by Jim Noble (And manly hearts to guard the fair)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Working in the nuke business…we still use the old “Effects of Nuclear Weapons” text. The manual calculator is pretty good.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1215016


125 posted on 10/09/2022 11:07:05 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: SuperLuminal
In the dis-United States, nothing!

A nuke going off on European soil will devastate the Eurozone economy. No banks will loan any money. These effects will reverberate over here.

At the very least, I'd expect a run on the grocery stores, wiping out the shelves.

126 posted on 10/09/2022 11:07:33 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Textide
Russia gets split up like Germany after WWII. The UN Security council, minus Russia, will divvy up the country for 100 years. Russia as a country and culture will cease to exist.

Good luck with all that.

127 posted on 10/09/2022 11:07:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NorseViking

Perhaps it was wrong to persuade Ukraine to give up the ex-Soviet nukes then...


128 posted on 10/09/2022 11:07:50 AM PDT by Czech_Occidentalist
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To: Textide

Who gives the UN Security Council some right to divide up nations and destroy cultures? How about they do that to America because we went into Iraq?

This idiotic Bidenista Ukraine fixation is turning people into what they claim to hate the most.


129 posted on 10/09/2022 11:08:32 AM PDT by dforest
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To: firebrand

What a scene! In the hotel during the trout fishing trip with the beautiful rendition of Waltzing Matilda by the baritone. My heart ached and I was only 10.


130 posted on 10/09/2022 11:09:33 AM PDT by mware
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To: crz

For a surface interacting burst…you’re right, it will be uninhabitable. For a burst at altitude? Structures are fine…living things…not so much. You could start repopulating in time (1 or more years depending on yield).


131 posted on 10/09/2022 11:11:24 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: Textide

LOL. By what sort of power it is going to happen?:)


132 posted on 10/09/2022 11:11:31 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

In this case, probably nukes.

IMO this is the opening of the seven year tribulation, the four horses of Revelation Chapter 6 - WWIII IMO - ending with 1/4 of the world dead (Rev. 6:8).


133 posted on 10/09/2022 11:11:40 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: dforest

I suspect Biden is never in the room when they discuss anything serious. Having someone with his problems in the room while trying to work through something makes for an impossible situation. He is probably told what to say and then rehearsed several times before they stick him in front of a mic.


134 posted on 10/09/2022 11:12:38 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Jim Noble

Most of those lives were Russians grinding against Germans. Russia is already now a pariah. Using nukes will ignite the rest of the world to destroy them: by nuke or otherwise. Hopefully not a protracted world war.

Russia will be gone in any case. What to do with them once they’ve lost?


135 posted on 10/09/2022 11:14:31 AM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: NorseViking

After the resultant world war. Not an immediate divvying.


136 posted on 10/09/2022 11:15:21 AM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: Textide

You mean when the radiation levels are low enough to enter Russia?


137 posted on 10/09/2022 11:15:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: USAF1985

1 to 5 years.

After effects would go on for decades.

In those 1 to 5 years, for those who survive that attack, it would be better for them to have died.

Society will break down. I guess the SiFI films like the “Postman” might not be to far fetched.


138 posted on 10/09/2022 11:16:02 AM PDT by crz
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To: Textide

The occupiers will be killed by the hundreds. Russia, may not be performing well in this war, but when it comes to their turf, they will kill everyone there.


139 posted on 10/09/2022 11:17:50 AM PDT by TreasonObserver
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To: Chainmail

Do you know what a Tactical Nuclear weapon is compared to a Strategic Nuclear weapon ?

Come back when you do.


140 posted on 10/09/2022 11:18:42 AM PDT by wrench
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