After 300,000 deaths within a week, and 77 years, Hiroshima has been rebuilt after sustaining a blast from a single fission bomb containing only about 64 kg (140 pounds) of highly enriched uranium, about 1.38% of which fissioned (3.2 ounces), which released energy equaling about 15 kilotons.
Smaller Russian missiles each contain up to 15 self guided precision warheads, each warhead delivering a blast of 9 megatons (so each warhead is 600 times more powerful than Hiroshima...each missile releases 15 of these warheads which independently fly to their target and detonate.
Russia has about 1,400 of these precision missiles carry multiple self-guided precision warheads for a total of about 5,600 warheads. Their range is anywhere on the planet.
R-36 mod 5 (active, 10 warheads) R-29R (active, 3 warheads) R-29RMU Sineva (active, 4 or 10 warheads) RS-24 Yars (active, 3-4 warheads) R-29RMU2 Layner (active, 4 or 12 warheads) RSM-56 Bulava (active 6-10 warheads) RS-28 Sarmat (under development, 10-15 warheads)
Russian nukes are about 1 megaton in the MIRVS the vast majority of them anyway. Not that they don't have larger. They just don't have as many of them as the topol ss-25 ~800kt. Not that it is any better, they figured out they could do as well with more smaller nukes arial burst. About half will likely go to Europe. The Chinese currently are using the 5 MT models in their main ICBM. SOme non negligible portion of those would be heading to India. They have considerably fewer than Russia. Either way unless your 40 miles out of the mid sized cities it's most likely bad news. I don't think it would end the human race but it would be medieval conditions for 100 years maybe like Thundarr. Mostly pre industrial tech with weird pockets of scraped together and repaired pre war tech. Considerably less people and there is enough oil in shutdown wells that aren't profitable "now" but also aren't dry. I think it might be possible to eventually work our way back as long as societies focused on efficiency rather than jewish consumerism and didn't let the population get out of control. Survivors would be more free than they are now though. That might actually be a good thing if we could focus the remaining resources on getting to space and colonizing living in harmony. I don't think there is a way to reform the current society without a major tectonic shift like that so this is probably an inevitable outcome for our current path. Everything is too pozzed without a serious adjustment of thinking that the vast majority of the population just couldn't handle.
Thanks for the input. I'm not sure 40 miles makes a difference....the bigger Russian hydrogen bombs have a total destruction blast radius of 40 miles, and Strontnium 90 has an airborne half life of 40,000 years.
Texas oilfields and Pennsylvania gas fields would be primary targets.
That doesn't include cruise missiles, air dropped stealth bombers, hypersonic missiles, submarine launched ICBMS, or the crazy long range self guided nuclear torpedoes that explode underwater and create coastal tsunamis.
And, all that doesn't include "Nuclear Winter".
I'm with all the 1940's guys working on the US nuclear weapons programs: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
They will most likely save those enormous ones for the giant metropolises and hardened military targets like Cheyanne mountain and large military instillations is my line of thinking. The under 1 million population cities will likely be hit with several of their small mirvs which should be survivable if you are 40 miles out. heat blast wave less than 12 cal/cm2 and under 1 bar of pressure blast wave. It'll be fucked for sure going back to horse and buggies and burning wood for quite some time if you survive. Im not so sure about nuclear winter. These guys suck at predicting human effects on weather. It will be more about getting out of the way of fallout clouds for the first year or so until the stuff settles out of the atmosphere first few months and washes out to sea from natural weather events probably within 1st year for non directly targeted areas.
Kill all niggers on sight will be priority 1
I figure lay low and don't draw attention for a while American ones will probably take care of themselves for the most part. To used to being subsidized by rabbi uncle sam. An interesting thought though is africa will most likely continue living like they have for 1,000 of years with no technology since they arent worth targeting with nukes. It may be one of the few continents that will be viable for living on and sustaining a moderate population once enough people get together and can build ships again. America is fairly large so im sure there will be places that will be relatively safe to be in. Another one would b Antarctica or far north pole.
Somewhat related, I've had this image saved for maybe 10 years now: https://pic8.co/sh/KRshEU.jpg
Of course the image is from at least ~2012 and is extremely inaccurate for supplies today. Even when it was made it was already highly inaccurate as it only used public information available at the time and public information for several of the countries was extremely out of date even then.
Still useful for helping with visualizing stockpiles of nukes around the world despite only a handful being needed to end some/most/all life.
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