Cold war

Cenna

Cenna

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What would likely happen if the Cuban missile crisis turned into warfare. Pan out your idea of the rest of the war. Who wins? who joins? Where will war breakout? ect 

 
The world would end shortly afterward. It is well known that the Cuban missile crisis was the closest our planet has ever been to nuclear annihilation. If the Russian ship had crossed the blockade line we would have destroyed it. If we would have destroyed it Russia and Cuba would have nuked us. We would have responded in kind.

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I can agree to that but I feel like Africa would be somewhat untouched unless someone decided the whole world should end we would likely see the world living through the African continent and or possibly the south American continent 

 
you forget... radioactive fallout in the jet stream would go world wide. We would be plunged into an age of darkness and radioactive storms. The blast is not the deadly part of a nuclear war. It's the radioactive fallout that will linger for hundreds of years.

 
i think that as long as the lines of communication between Krushchev and Kennedy remained open, nuclear war might have been avoided--but had we sunk a Soviet ship that ran the blockade, there mightve needed to be a backroom deal that allowed the Soviets to save face in a tit-for-tat maneuver (attacking a US base in Europe, sinking an American ship, etc.)...both sides knew it would be over if one of us went nuke, and Krushchev wasnt an ideologue like Lenin or a complete sociopath like Stalin...i think the far more dangerous situation was something like Able Archer 83, where we came really close to nuclear war because the Soviets mistook a NATO exercise as maneuvering for an attack, and there was no communication between NATO and the Soviets...hell, we didnt even know how bad it got until after the Soviet Union fell...

 
I've read a lot of interesting debate about whether or not nuclear war would really be as world-ending as it's portrayed to be. Apparently the fallout wouldn't make the entire planet deadly poisonous for a century, it could be sheltered from and most of what would be blown around would decay to very survivable level within weeks. And nuclear winter would only really kick in if the bombs caused a large number of concentrated firestorms that released massive amounts of smoke, which is just a hypothetical worst case scenario.

 
@Woot The issues are if Nuclear winter occurs, we're basically F*cked, and it actually doesn't take a ludicrous amount of nukes to be fired, there are enough right now to give us a nuclear winter, no problem. Secondly, even a few weeks of global radiation could prove extremely fatal, and lower tolerance levels for babies and children would probably result in deformed peoples and high rates of cancer for at least the next few generations.

 
The nukes themselves don't cause a nuclear winter, the soot from the fires does, and it has to be from fires massive enough to lift those particles into the upper atmosphere where they wouldn't quickly fall back down. There's a lot of debate over whether or not there would actually be enough such fires.

I'm not saying the radiation would be harmless, but it would be survivable for those in the path of the fallout who took cover, and not every place would suffer heavy fallout. In the long term, there would be more cancer, but not so much that society would fall apart. For example, the atomic bomb survivors who took doses of hundreds of rads of radiation had 50% more cases of leukemia than normal and 10% more of other kinds of cancer. Most people worldwide wouldn't be exposed to nearly that much radiation at once, and slower doses are less harmful as well.

 
If we successfully take shelter for 30-80 years, there should be no issues in terms of nuclear fallout. While yes soot can cause the nuclear winter, it can also be caused by just an uplifting of light particles into the atmosphere, so blasting soil into the sky can give you a nuclear winter, but generally should be fine thanks to refrigeration, so long as foods have been stockpiled, as the nuclear winter probably will not last longer than 5 years.

 
japan77 said:
If we successfully take shelter for 30-80 years, there should be no issues in terms of nuclear fallout. While yes soot can cause the nuclear winter, it can also be caused by just an uplifting of light particles into the atmosphere, so blasting soil into the sky can give you a nuclear winter, but generally should be fine thanks to refrigeration, so long as foods have been stockpiled, as the nuclear winter probably will not last longer than 5 years.
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