re: #161 Kilroy01

Yes it all depends on your point of view. The pilot of that stolen MIG-25 talked about fighting China his book MIG Pilot. I think he said, “Kill a million a day and you still have three years of work ahead of you…”

But that was silly talk. With nukes, a million a day is slacking off. Those weapons are so destructive that a billion lives can be cut down with one barrage.

And all this analysis of who gets hit with what misses a point that has only recently been understood: cities burn. A thermonuclear fireball above a burning city would lift far into the stratosphere a pall of microscopic fine soot particles, which would then cloud the earth for years or decades to come. Burn too many cities, and you will have years of freezing cold and near midnight darkness even at high noon. Even a “small” nuclear war would cure the hell out of global warming for a few years and we’d need stringent rationing and desperate measures (think planting Georgia with barley and potatoes) to pull through.