how to win a nuclear war? Atomic weapons --- they were by comparison to today's mega weapons fairly small -- one US official referred to the bombs dropped on Japan as "little toy weapons" compared today --One of these toy bombs leveled 4 miles in diameter
The Russians and others have come up with a vacuum bomb -- "The daddy of all bombs" as their papers put it ---- All the boom with none of the radiation
Plus the speed factors have multiplied by a thousand -- A plane carrying an atomic bomb to drop over a target and run like hell --- is just an out of date concept --- It is as gone as the vinyl records and rotary phones
2,500 tests that we know of have been conducted -- ( The US admits to 1000 and the Russians admit to the other 1000 --- the 500 make up France Britain India and a handful of others --- many of these were conducted in cooperation with the US -- so stats may be misleading)
Missles can no travel at twice the speed of sound ,the speed of sound through the standard atmosphere is 761 mph
Now there is space --- yep -- you can orbit a bomb and drop it on anything anywhere --- or just simply explode it in the air 6 miles up in legal no mans land -- And take out an entire national electric grid -- Any military sites which are not covered by a Faraday cage will be fried and unusable --
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Yet with all of these complexities --
---- It is really this simple ---
I need to get my punch in before you get a chance to react and I need to knock you out so you can't punch me back ---
------------------ Now that part --- at least hasn't changed since man discovered the pointy stick
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In the past 6 decades do you think anyone from Russia or the US tried to figure out how to win a nuclear war
The Pentagon --- the Kremlin --- the Chinese --- any one else with a nuclear weapon --
Has anyone ever said -- Hey you guys -- figure out how we can win a nuclear war ?
Or did they just all give up and say can't be done ? Am I really supposed to believe that?
hayesatlbch
I agree -- but to play devils advocate
How good would those subs be with no command structure ? Who would they attack and with no communication how would they know the mainland had been attacked ?
The Russians and others have come up with a vacuum bomb -- "The daddy of all bombs" as their papers put it ---- All the boom with none of the radiation
Plus the speed factors have multiplied by a thousand -- A plane carrying an atomic bomb to drop over a target and run like hell --- is just an out of date concept --- It is as gone as the vinyl records and rotary phones
2,500 tests that we know of have been conducted -- ( The US admits to 1000 and the Russians admit to the other 1000 --- the 500 make up France Britain India and a handful of others --- many of these were conducted in cooperation with the US -- so stats may be misleading)
Missles can no travel at twice the speed of sound ,the speed of sound through the standard atmosphere is 761 mph
Now there is space --- yep -- you can orbit a bomb and drop it on anything anywhere --- or just simply explode it in the air 6 miles up in legal no mans land -- And take out an entire national electric grid -- Any military sites which are not covered by a Faraday cage will be fried and unusable --
---------------------------------
Yet with all of these complexities --
---- It is really this simple ---
I need to get my punch in before you get a chance to react and I need to knock you out so you can't punch me back ---
------------------ Now that part --- at least hasn't changed since man discovered the pointy stick
---------------------------------
In the past 6 decades do you think anyone from Russia or the US tried to figure out how to win a nuclear war
The Pentagon --- the Kremlin --- the Chinese --- any one else with a nuclear weapon --
Has anyone ever said -- Hey you guys -- figure out how we can win a nuclear war ?
Or did they just all give up and say can't be done ? Am I really supposed to believe that?
hayesatlbch
I agree -- but to play devils advocate
How good would those subs be with no command structure ? Who would they attack and with no communication how would they know the mainland had been attacked ?