Omega wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 1:52 am
My understanding is that Russia will warn us in advance before hitting us with nuclear weapons
What's in it for them? Maybe an ultimatum might be issued by them to 'do xyz or we will strike a European city at noon'
Warning or no warning, I can't see it would make much difference to us as it would be miscommunicated, misinterpreted and mistrusted.
If they are able to launch them, they are able to hit us. Maybe if they warned us well in advance with proposed ETA, we could chuck everything at them in a pre-emptive strike, to which they'd dust down and fire back. Either way we are screwed.
I don’t believe bull

in news where, I think, our admiral said we should not worry about Russian missiles because they will have to fly over territory of a few NATO countries, so they are likely to be intercepted - Russian missile fired from Kaliningrad region will hit London within 202 seconds according to Russian news, we may not even be able to do anything. Also, I would think Russian will hit us from their nuclear submarines, and I don’t know if any is within 10 miles from our shores.
Intercepted? I don't think so. We don't have interception in any plan. The MAD doctrine is that we'd retaliate in kind. Nothing about intercepting ICBM's once they are launched.
The good news though is that Russia doesn’t have many nuclear warheads on duty, lots are in storage though. So, we maybe be hit with circa 20 warheads, most likely double tap to increase the damage. And there is a nuclear map showing the size of the damage.
With Each missile carrying half a dozen warheads, we could expect many more to make it through.
I recently read news that there are fungus in Chernobyl that eat radioactive material and checked with a university friend who lives in the exclusion zone (he is also quite well known scientist) - he said it is nonsense. Well, I am not radiation expert
Fungi adapt well and maybe one does ingest radioactive material and thrive. It's just moving the radioactive material, not destroying or clearing it up.
Meanwhile, I cleared the garage under my house - I will park the car in the garage and sit there with the family, a protection of the house and car body is better than just a house (my garage door is not looking into the direction where the explosion is likely to happen). I have gas masks, respirators , clothing, food and water in the garage, so I can quickly throw them into the car (3 days should be enough)
I suppose it's a thought, but what or who will you eat on day 4 or day 40?