“...it’s time for us to begin work on our bomb shelters.”
And come out of them to what? You have to consider that the people that would throw them out don’t consider the consequences of all out holocaust because if they did, they wouldn’t do it. If it ever came to it, the old adage of whoever has the most toys at the end wins becomes irrelevant. There won’t be any toys on the surface to have and no water of food to keep enough alive for the first blades of grass as it can potentially cause the collapse of civilization and, in the worst case, extinction of humanity and/or termination of all biological life on Earth. Who wins? And with China, India, Japan, Korea, Pakistan and a number of countries that have nothing anyway but the button, who’s to stop them. Those scenarios you saw on the computer screen in the movie War Games were not far from wrong. And for those in the US, there is no way to stop a couple of thousand ICBMs as they are an estimated 20 minutes away from launch to first det from sub launch.
The five considered the most potent of all, the “Trident II,” RS-24 “Yars,” LGM-30G “Minuteman III,” Dongfeng-41, and RS-28 “Sarmat.” The baddest is the Sarmat, or Satan II. The RS-28 Sarmat is capable of carrying 10 tonnes of payload, of ten 750 kiloton or 15 lighter MIRV warheads, and up to 24 Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) or a combination of warheads and several countermeasures against anti-ballistic missile systems. So they are capable of sending a missile we can’t stop and is over a 750 thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. Not a pretty thought. It’s just a matter of who blinks first and has been for a few generations.
wy69
I’ve been against the Ukraine War since DAY ONE, but then I studied the effects of nuclear blasts in my day. But it does seem like there’s a bunch of people, likely under 30 years old, who seem to think that we nukes aren’t so bad, or that we can somehow win a nuclear war...they SCARE THE HELL out of me.