Tinfoil hat on

I have a feeling that we're gonna see the first use of a WMD by Russia against the US in the next 4 years. Perhaps not a full out nuke, but something like a thermobaric weapon used against a Democratic city like NYC.

My theory is that this will be secretly coordinated between Trump and Putin months in advance. It serves as a show of force for Russia, while at the same time conveniently feeds into Trump's desire for retribution. Russia will say that it's revenge for helping Ukraine. Trump will spout some BS about not wanting to escalate to save face. Big events like that also tend to benefit the current president in office. The facts will come out months or years after it happens.

I like how this is somehow not political but yet it apparently is just enough to get people to crawl out of the wood work with a emotional response.

People are getting fired up over something that is a random thought. Its up there with right leaning people failing a 5th grade math exam because the researchers made the answers contradict the core conservative beliefs. Political beliefs are not rational and but many people are unaware of there own irrational logic.

All of the silos are in rural areas; those are mostly known and definitely first-strike targets. Cities need very few nukes to take out individually. Nowhere will anyone be rebuilding from the ashes. If the war is limited and nuclear winter doesn't make the entire planet uninhabitable, the only places with a chance of surviving are the undeveloped countries. No developed country will be habitable.

Nuclear fallout is a bitch.

False. Nuclear war kills most of the population on the planet, whether from a direct hit, fallout, food and water being contaminated, or the breakdown of society that comes after.

Those who get killed by the direct hit will be considered lucky by the people unlucky enough to survive it.

Australia, New Zealand, Ireland (possibly) and some South American countries would be ok.

Unless they decided to nuke all the arable land instead, lower upfront deaths, but the long term famine will get everyone.

Realistically, nuclear war is the end of everyone, its called MAD for a reason.

Kurzgesagt has a video about life after nuclear war... It's not pretty.

All-out nuclear war would kill every human on the planet.

Take a look at the movie "Threads" about the effects of a nuclear war. It's from back in the cold war, but a lot of it remains relevant:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvFu7Z5cc88
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcrgQihRcs
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

You're so fucking stupid I don't even have an insult or something clever to say, other than remove yourself from the gene pool.

So, the Handmaiden's Tale?

Where I live will never be a bomb target. So, I'll still be here. But you're right. I'm VERY outnumbered.

Nah the rural areas would die longer and more painful deaths.