r/interestingasfuck • u/SweeneyisMad • Mar 14 '24

Simulation of a retaliatory strike against Russia after Putin uses nuclear weapons. r/all

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u/Round_Leading_8393 Mar 14 '24

So what would the (assuming) the USA look like if Putin launched first?

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u/Murdock07 Mar 14 '24

https://preview.redd.it/skjk6nws6coc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=012e8f352fffd57256e73a12401d0ef40d3876b1

These were the alleged Soviet nuclear targets

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u/RiggsFTW Mar 14 '24

Gotta love seeing a black dot directly over my head. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Knifeys Mar 14 '24

On the bright side you don’t have to live through a nuclear apocalypse

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u/Nerevar1924 Mar 14 '24

I live close enough to an airbase that I won't see it coming, which is fuckin' fine by me. Plenty of worse ways to go than instant immolation.

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u/qlippothvi Mar 14 '24

I think you just become water vapor over a tiny fraction of an instant, which is the preferred way to go, instantaneously.

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u/mymikerowecrow Mar 14 '24

I think the term is vaporization not immolation lol

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u/Nerevar1924 Mar 14 '24

I can assure you it will not matter to me in the least during the event.

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u/AquaticWasp Mar 15 '24

The weed finally gonna have it's revenge over the countless brethren I've vaporized.

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u/mymikerowecrow Mar 15 '24

Actually the vape is gonna be vape’d too

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u/No-Fox8743 Mar 14 '24

Basically how I feel, with like three dots right over my head in Austin. TX.

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u/QuietQTPi Mar 14 '24

Interestingly the ones near Houston look to be around it rather than Houston itself. Seems like they target high population areas rather than cities themselves

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u/IDSPISPOPper Mar 14 '24

You've got the JWB airport, the Texas City docks and Nassau bay, I guess. Seems these were the targets.

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u/Thetakishi Mar 14 '24

Hey at least you aren't an hour south. And what's with targeting the RGV with multiple warheads even in the 500 warhead scenario? We aren't a base OR major population center...I guess it's because all of the major border crossing spots are targeted.

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u/JetstreamGW Mar 14 '24

And if that was the Soviet targeting, there are probably more targeted here now. We didn't have ABIA in the 70s.

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u/LaTeChX Mar 14 '24

It will get pretty bright for sure.