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From Popular Mechanics
With President Obama visiting Hiroshima and the Republican frontrunner calling for Japan and South Korea to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, the specter of atomic warfare is just about as present as its ever been. A new website from The Future of Life Institute shows-with brutal efficiency-what the fallout from an American nuke would look like for the rest of the world. It's not pretty.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/simulate-end-world-interactive-map-153424200.html
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Nuclear winter is still a danger we face, three decades after the close of Cold War 1.0.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)We and Russia have 90 percent of the world's nkukes and could reduce the potential damage the same amount by simply agreeing never to use them against each other.
Xolodno
(6,415 posts)....since 1947, hows that track record going? Sure a few treaties were made, but we actually pulled out of one of them (two if you count one of the START treaties). But in order to agree to never use them, you have to eliminate them all. We came close to that deal in 1986 at the Reykjavík Summit when Gorbachev offered to eliminate all their nukes if the US did as well.
But....Ronold Reagan wouldn't go for it so he could develop his Strategic Defense Initiative a.k.a. "Star Wars"; which was in a way a forerunner to the anti-missile system we've been deploying in Eastern Europe (which I might add, is now a joke due to Russia developing hyper-sonic ballistic missiles to counter this very system, can't make this shit up).
It amazes me some here imply another arms race or even war with an enemy with nukes is acceptable.
Problem with nuke's, once those birds hit their target, the damage isn't just limited to there. The fallout afterwards can make a real mess of things for both allied nations and the country using them.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)this is even more important than before.
Xolodno
(6,415 posts)Only, Putin seems to know what he can get away with. Trump on the other hand, doesn't seem to have that sense.