Nuclear War

  • jjbagley
    28th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    How likley on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most likely, do you think that the world will go into a nuclear war? Whoes planning on building a nuclear shelter under there house?  

  • Plutonium84
    28th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    That is unlikely.

  • Sergeant_Starfruit
    28th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    About an 8, but not for like 100 years. You, know, that acually might be what destroys our planet.

  • Dr-Nukinstin
    28th Aug 2012 Member 1 Permalink

    Being a self proclaimed expert on such situations (i didn't just pick the name at random), in the next 10 years, 3, in the next 100, 5, though it can change at anytime to anything, and a nuclear shelter will not help you, unless you are 1000's of kilometers from a target, and we do not have enough nuclear weapons to completely destroy Earth, we can kill everything and make it uninhabitable but we can not turn Earth into an asteroid belt or any other equivalent.

  • jjbagley
    28th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    hmm interesting. and now that i think about it ya a shelter would be pointless. but is there a depth that the shelter could be at that would be safe?

  • Dr-Nukinstin
    28th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    search Cheyanne Mountain, that's what you would need to survive a direct hit, and to survive the time it would take to become safe to leave

  • jjbagley
    28th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    That's pretty cool. I never knew about that

  • Dr-Nukinstin
    29th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    There's also a Russian version, i think it's Yamanto or something like that (not the Jap battleship)

  • CaptainJL
    29th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    bunkers only help in the blast (if not near ground 0), they dont really help for fallout unless they are heaps deep enough or heavily lead lined.

     

    I reckon chances of nuclear war are very low (2-3) simply because;

    who really wants to have the feeling of causing the death of the human race.

    Though i see the possibility of a singular or multi nuclear terrorist strike to be a 7

     

    cheyanne mountain is good only the time that u have enough food/ unradiated water supply, unless u have a stargate there of course.

  • therocketeer
    29th Aug 2012 Member 0 Permalink
    @Dr-Nukinstin (View Post)
    The "Tsar bomba" (strongest bomb ever detonated, with a yield of 58mt) had a complete destruction radius of about 60 km, severe destruction radius of just under 100km and thermal effects that could be witnessed up to 270km away. Nothing ever even theoreticized would have made nuclear shelters useless at 1000's of kilometers away from the point of impact.