Who would survive in the nuclear war?

Nuclear weapons are the most terrifying weapons on our planet. And that's why those weapons exist. The purpose of nuclear weapons is to prevent war. And that's why some nations developed nuclear weapons. But the fact is that if nuclear weapons existed, there is always the possibility that somebody uses those weapons. 

Some people say that nuclear weapons are a shield. That allows governments to do anything that they want if they have nuclear stockpiles. And this is why we should take any threats to use nuclear weapons seriously. 

Public doctrines of those weapons are always similar. No state that owns nuclear weapons is not going to use them at the first. But the reality is that the beginning of global thermonuclear warfare is in a situation where another side of conflict seems that it must use nuclear weapons against the enemy. 

The first strike will happen when own conventional troops cannot win the conflict. And then the next step is the use of tactical nuclear weapons. The opponent will answer to that strike with their weapons. And then somebody shoots some other nuclear state. So the beginning of global thermonuclear warfare is in the tense international situation. 

Things like stealth systems make the warning time for those strikes very short. And that thing can cause the commander to misunderstand the situation in the command center. When the command center sees that something comes suddenly into the atmosphere. They must confirm what is coming. Is that object a nuclear weapon or harmless space junk? 

Things like possible FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System), which means orbital nuclear weapons are causing the possibility that the commander makes the wrong analysis. The FOBS weapon is not always a megaton-size nuke. 

It's only the satellite where is a nuclear bomb. And that thing makes those weapons very frightening.

FOBS weapons are prohibited. But there is a possibility that some nations have those systems. 

The purpose of FOBS can be to destroy the enemy's electric system. In that case, the system is acting as an EMP weapon that detonated in a high atmosphere. The EMP weapon is not as harmless as we think. It can drop large numbers of aircraft, jam communication, and traffic networks, and destroy things like civilian computers. That kind of weapon can also destroy computers that are operating nuclear reactors. Those things can cause many casualties. 

That kind of weapon can destroy Air Force One, and the death of the president can cause a situation where the commander must react to the nuclear threat. But those kinds of weapons also deliver radioactive pollution into the high atmosphere. 

Or the target of that weapon is the command bunkers. The fact is that task force commanders cannot just expect that some object that falls from the sky is automatically harmless. And when the commander must decide on the counterstrike in minutes. That very stressful situation causes the possibility that the task force commander presses the red button. 

The nuclear war is like all other wars. If we are thinking about the people who would injure because of strikes. The launching personnel who are in deep underground launching bunkers can survive because they must make their job. And that thing is a counterstrike. But the biggest group of casualties that the nuclear strike makes are civilians. Normal civilians have no protective suits. Or their shelters are not made to protect them against nuclear winter. 

The nuclear war requires lots of food inside the shelter. Because the ground is poisoned by radioactive fallout. The temperature on Earth will collapse very soon after the global nuclear war. And a large part of people and animals will die because of radioactive fallout. The nuclear winter means the political and environmental situation that follows nuclear war. 

The next thing that follows a nuclear strike is the fallout. The military personnel has their NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) protective suits. And those suits protect them against nuclear particles. Those suits are protecting the lungs and skin from radioactive dust, but those suits are not protecting the users against straight radioactive radiation. But things like water and food are the big problem. 

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Why Navy P-8 Poseidon was flying circle for many hours above Los Angeles?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Why P-8 Poseidon would fly around the same point hours and hours? There are many reasons, why this kind of missions is done. One is that if the aircraft flies very long around some point, it would get a sharper image about that target and if the target is under the surveillance, what takes hours, would that mean, that the aircraft would meter the movements of the buildings. There is the possibility of earthquakes in Los Angeles, and maybe that P-8 was searching the vertical and horizontal movements of the ground by using its systems in intensive surveillance.

But there are many other possibilities, and one is that the aircraft would observe the volcanic gas, what is released from the Newport-Inglewood fault zone, and the data was collected for getting the prediction of the new earthquakes. That P-8 could search the houses because somebody expected that there was some kind of surveillance equipment hidden in those houses, and maybe their mission was to track those "bugs", what might be installed by the hostile intelligence service.

And if the aircraft would fly a circle in a long time, would it get a better image from the radio transmitters in that area. But there is a possibility, that this P-8 was looking for the drones, what have disturbed air-traffic, and maybe its mission is to scan the guidance systems of those drones, or it might communicate with drone swarms, and that ability will make it useful in the search operations. Those drones can cover very large land area, and they can be used to searching the people or looking for crack-houses.

So they can be useful for both military and civil operations like searching fire, looking for people from the streets or parks, and the image recognition systems, what can compile faces and registration plates would allow this system operate very effectively. And also sensors like normal- and infrared cameras and gas detectors can be used for tracking poisonous chemicals, crack houses and even the DNA of certain people. In this case, those systems can communicate with sophisticated command aircraft, what will forward the information, what this system has been collected to the other units. This kind of systems are very effective for locating certain targets for strike units, and maybe those P-8 planes also operate with this kind of units of military and law enforcement.

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