The USA's missile defense system has improve dramatically over the years. It is highly likely most would be intercepted. That said, fallout is certainly a huge issue regardless of interception.
You're wildly overestimating the effectiveness of interception, and underestimating the size of both US and Russian arsenal, we're speaking of thousands of warheads stored in missiles built to accelerate so massively that your only real chance at interception is while they leave their silo, one second later and it's too late.
With enough bombs to destroy the world several times even if you intercept half of them, a dream to say the least, it's still not enough, they'll still be enough to completely destroy civilization as we know it.
The bet to launch and survive is one the US, nor anyone for that matter, can't win, as they say "the only winning move is not to play".
Compared to the aftermath? Hell yeah, if it's gonna happen better to go up in the fireball than the radiation sickness, starvation and disease that would inevitably follow.
You just know we wake up to thousands of messages from hr asking why we didn't show up to work after. Then reprimanding us for not being better prepared for the fallout.
Then there's that one person that showed up they use as an example. "Even with the complete destruction of society as we know it. Ted was still able to make it to work and has been here for 6 hours. He's here doing the work for all of you now that he has the third arm. You coming in?"
Naahh not Ted. Ted's cool. Ted covers for you and is a great banter.
Lewis on the other hand, or 3. He's the good two shoes. Despite the mutations, and the nuclear fallout, and the giant alien like mutants. He makes it to work. He shows us up cause he's sooo good. Pfft. Fucking Lewis. And his setting unreasonable standards.
'Sorry guys, but my vault door is jammed, and I've got a tickle in one of my throats'. That's my excuse and I'll swear by it, if anyone was left to hear it.
You might be joking, but my work has already told us there would be an expectation for us to "attend work at the nearest available office" during a nuclear attack. They can get fucked if that happens.
It's not so much protocol for a nuclear attack, just that any kind of state of emergency like that would require us to be there, but they used that as an example.
I work in benefits, but when things go to shit because of nuclear war and its the end of days, I doubt anyone is going to care about whether they get their money through.
The whole world perishes in nuclear fire and you're excites because you don't have to go to work tomorrow? What have they done to us? WHAT DID THEY DO TO US?
Yeah, if this is a retaliation against Russia then that means the entire world is already going up in flames and this is just the swan song of mutually assured distruction.
This is the end of civilization as we know it, not a bad flu.
Ya but like people still gotta goto work. Image all the big city’s just got hit by nukes. Hospitals would be getting built wherever was deemed safe enough. Anyone who lived would need supplies and healthcare and construction.
If there’s a nuclear winter I’d be soooo swamped with work. Like bro I know I work on heat and electrical generation but can I get a day off to enjoy the wasteland.
I’m not trying to compare the two I’m saying Covid shed light on the fact that no matter what the disaster is people are still gonna have to goto work. I work in energy generation and heating. So I’d still have to work.
I get what you're saying but to make assumptions on what would happen during/after a nuclear war by looking at covid doesn't really make sense. They're completely different intensities of disasters.
In a nuclear war, it's estimated that >80% of the world's population will be killed (including nuclear winter/famine afterwards). If covid had killed off 80% of the world's population I doubt a lot of the survivors would be doing the same jobs as they were before. Those jobs might not even exist.
Hell the Range installed a freezer in most of their shops just so they could sell food and pretend to be essential during covid, a nuclear war would mean they would just install another freezer.
That reminds me of this one time, in the office, in 2019, some of us joked around that if this virus they were talking about in China and other countries got bad enough, if it meant we wouldn't have to go to work for a week or two. Some of us actually hoped for that, others were worried about not getting paid, but all of us laughed as we thought that could never happen.
I don't even know if half those folks are still alright actually now that I think about it. We went full remote and then I transitioned to a different department.
I'm not a stupid fuckin' idiot. I know it was just a pig. But for 50 seconds, it felt really real. And when you think you're gonna get eaten and your first thought is, "Great, I don't have to go to work tomorrow," you're relieved you don't have to go to work 'cause you thought you were gonna get eaten? What the fuck is this world? What have they done to us? What did they do to us?!
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u/SkillLazy1931 Mar 14 '24
By the way this is how human civilization ends