Nuclear Doomsday -- some rational analysis

[Darren Dirt]

Interesting, well-reasoned thoughts on "primary targets" and the like.

http://www.webpal.org/webpal/d_resources/states/aatargets.htm

"You WILL survive..." -- some myths, etc. that are food for thought, a few nicely touched on in the TV series "Jericho" actually...
http://www.webpal.org/webpal/d_resources/survival/books/doomsday/index.htm

You will survive. The conditions of that survival are up to you...

And remember, November 9, 1979 could just as easily happen again...

[Mr. Analog]

Not sure what prompted this, but it's 2007 not 1985. The big nuclear threat most countries have to fear from is a dirty bomb brought into a major metro area by some kind of fanatical nutjob.

China has nukes but wouldn't use them on their biggest customer. India has nukes but Pakistan would be first on their hit list (and vice versa). Kim Il Jong says he has nukes but that guy lives in his own fantastical world where his own people aren't starving to death and still somehow believe they are fighting the Korean War.

Who does that leave? Russia with it's disintegrating infrastructure? Britain? France?

<Jimmy Stewart Voice>No no no! None of this adds up!</Jimmy Stewart Voice>

[Darren Dirt]

Not sure what prompted this, but it's 2007 not 1985. The big nuclear threat most countries have to fear from is a dirty bomb brought into a major metro area by some kind of fanatical nutjob.

I hope to [insert higher power here] that u r correct, sir.

But keep in mind, movies like The Sum Of All Fears (or was it Clear And Present Danger) (nope, it was Sum) had a plausible storyline, that a "3rd power" lets the 2 "super powers" think the OTHER side has started The War, and they sit back as the Holocaust begins and they take over world domination after the other 2 powers are now neglible. (Until Ben or Harrison save the day just in time, of course.)


Not saying I'm losing any sleep over the possibility, but just saying it's not an IMpossibility, sadly...

[Mr. Analog]

I really enjoyed Sum, one of my favourite movies...

[Darren Dirt]

<Jimmy Stewart Voice>No no no! None of this adds up!</Jimmy Stewart Voice>

Geez! Subliminal, subconscious associations with Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero" and Jim Carrey's Jimmy Stewart "Gosh, it looks like we're gonna have ourselves a nuclear holocaust..." routine?