That's approximate number of nuclear warheads NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and their friends possessed at the peak of the Cold War in 1985.Here's my question, if things had actually had actually come to a head, how many of these could actually have been fired off in an exchange. Say, it's all-out mutually assured destruction where the goal is the total extermination of the opposing side, could you have actually seen 60,000+ warheads being fired off or would both sides have had command and control collapse after the first few hundred and the rest being left unable to be used?
>>64637374Assuming ideal conditions - ie both are determined and know the other side is launching all weapons in a value-target strike: above 90% would be capable of being fired. There'd probably be some failures, some that don't turn their keys, but if the command to launch was given it was more than possible to transmit to every single launcher with appropriate authorization.
A lot would be destroyed in counterforce strikes
>>64637388Not if the goal is "total extermination" as per op. That heavily implies countervalue, not counterforce. And if both are aware of the other at the moment of firing, at least for the time period, i don't think counterforce would hit in time.
>>64637392If you defeat their capability to fight back you can exterminate them with impunity.The soviets (and russians still do) have liquid fueled ICBMs that are basically only useful for first strikes.Both sides has significant quantities of stockpiled warheads, neither at any point could empty their entire magazines in one volley.
>>64637374>Globohomo Eradication.webmIf the ziggers are getting hit, they're all dead, with likely few casualties in NATO outside of a couple of strikes in Europe.
>>64637374>jeetslop bait
A couple of weeks I used GPT for something like a "Choose your own adventure" kinda game. The premise was: I am the US president, it's 1983 early in the morning, I'm sleeping. The door pops open and the guy with the football and my chief of staff enter the room "Sir our early warning satellites have detected what seems to be an overwhelming first strike"Then GPT gave me several chapters for the developing story. Each of them with several possible answers I could choose - the next chapter depending on my previous answer. It was really funny but also kinda gut-wrenching because GPT wrote it rather immersive. At the end I nuked the everloving shit outta the entire eastern block and since they fired first I sent a second volley of pure counter-value annihilation to make sure they will never start shit again. Promt was something likePlease give me a "Choose your own adventure game" with mulitple possible answers. Scenario: I am the US president...."
