Meh on "100 Minutes War."
Anyone who thinks that a nuclear war might only last 100 minutes obviously hasn't thought it through.
Additionally, there simply aren't enough active nuclear weapons to kill even a majority of the world's population, much less end civilization. That's not to say that a nuclear war wouldn't be terrifying to live through. But the magnitude of exaggeration and disinformation on the subject is staggering, to say the least.
Cite your sources (both sides).
You expect me to prove a negative? Just think critically and you'll know that I'm right. Just because you live near a nuclear target doesn't mean that the rest of the world does. Who is going to nuke Africa and South America?
And don't start on this "the survivors will lack access to medical care and adequate nutrition" when most of the world's population has neither
sans nuclear conflict.
Some quick math finds that if the average yield of 26,000 weapons was about 2 MT (both of these numbers are far higher than actual figures. A more reasonable estimate would be 15,000 weapons yielding 500kt each and even that is pushing it) would take out (as in set fire to) something just over 10% of the earth's land area. That's assuming they were used perfectly.
Global NumbersUnited States Specific ....presumably outdated and less powerful than what countries possess today.
You presume too much! Have the laws of physics changed in the last thirty years? Or did you miss that weapon yields have been trending down for the last half century?
Also, the point isn't that it'll last 100 minutes, as I think the estimate is 20 minutes, but rather it's a clever and catchy reference to the Hundred Years War, as we're postulating a nuclear exchange between Britain and France. Leave artistic license alone, what'd it ever do to you?
I dont know where you're getting that 20 minute number, except maybe from an estimate of warning times in the continental United States.
I got the 100 year war thing, but like all of the titles I thought up, it just dosnt feel right to me. Hence the "meh".
Cities should've been lowest priority for Luftwaffe, but we know how Battle of Britain went.
Only about half the world's population lives in Urban areas, and only a third live in countries with access to advanced, miniaturized nuclear weapons(the kind that don't need specialized aircraft/cargo planes to deliver).