I wonder what everyone will say after Tel Aviv and New York are nuked.
I predict 5 Million dead in NY.
"I wonder what everyone will say after Tel Aviv and New York are nuked.I predict 5 Million dead in NY."
People would pry themselves away from their spoiled lives for a while, but as soon as the reality shows and televised sports were restored life would continue on. Until the next one. Rinse. Repeat. Ad Infinitum.
Iran and Israel. It can be assumed that they already are operating under a form of MAD and the Ayatollahs are sure of their own annihilation regardless of how deep their bunkers are. More importantly to them, even if they survive a retaliatory strike underground, they still lose control of Iran by being out of sight for an extended period of time. Besides, Israel has clearly penetrated the country with Scientist assassinations so we can assume there are spies throughout the regime.
So IMHO, they are really only left with the option of handing off weapons to 3rd parties, while obfuscating the facts well enough so that they are parroted by the anti-Israel major media: "IRAN: we had nothing to do with it!". This would presumably cause public opinion to prevent Israel from taking out Iran when they are nuked by said "unaffiliated" terrorists.
FWIW, that number of 5 million dead in NYC would result from a weekday detonation, and from a substantial device, perhaps a hydrogen bomb ( unless they are using new math which counts presumptive future deaths from radiation ). Most likely result from a simple Uranium bomb is a large smoking Hiroshima in midtown with close to a million casualties. And lots of chaos.
Being a moderate distance North of NYC we have lived with this scenario for a very long time. The aftermath would consist of an exodus of frantic zombies racing up here and causing mayhem all along the way. This is not far from our minds, believe me. Prepping and The Second Amendment make lots of sense in this scenario.