Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:18:21 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" From: Jon Elson Reply-To: jmelson@wustl.edu Organization: Washington University Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:19:14 -0500 User-Agent: KNode/4.8.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Subject: Re: An alternative outcome of nuclear war. Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,comp.arch,comp.games.development.programming.algorithms,rec.games.corewar,sci.electronics.design References: Followup-To: Choose,an,appropriate,group,to,redirect,replies... MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-KLzjsvXywe1U+vYajeIObQUArkKPcggXNF6LCYKflmPS8D5hFIoKv5ea7xNImzYY/e5pGcQOaKc3go+!1hy6fmldJXZ66+rFSTT55SRJMm0cogPtCuJPkcH/Woy8obgwlkYZx2Hn6us2MhZRMzS5uJxehjbR!DA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2557 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi:6375 comp.arch:29080 comp.games.development.programming.algorithms:90 rec.games.corewar:3766 sci.electronics.design:372010 Skybuck Flying wrote: > Hello, > > Have you ever wondered, what would happen if the other side launched their > missiles, starting a nuclear war ? > > Let's suppose the Russians launch all nukes at USA. > > The USA General is faced with a slight dilemma... if he/she launches > too... or the president/whatever... then he/she may be deciding the faith > of humanity: "total destruction" / "end of humanity". > > What to do ? Launch or not Launch ? Is there an alternative ? =D > > Today I present to you an alternative: > > Instead of counter-launching everything, the conclusion could be: > > 1. USA is doomed, the nuclear missiles cannot all be stopped, most of the > land will be radiated. > > Let's assume the goal is to "maximize" survivability of the human race. > > Then the only option is not to launch their nuclear arsenal, because that > would radiate russia too and the rest of the world. > > So the logical conclusion seems to be: > > 2. Don't radiatate Russia back... instead order a massive evacuation of > the USA Except you have less than 10 minutes to evacuate the country! Think you can do that? Check out how long it takes to evacuate a town when there's a hurricane bearing down, or a forest fire. Jon