georgephillip
Diamond Member
Sure, it's a long-shot we'll see NATO resorting to US B61 nuclear weapons on Russia's border.
"NATO has at least a couple hundred US B61 nuclear weapons forward deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey. The B61 is a 'variable yield' weapon; the two models currently forward-based in Europe, the B61-3 and B61-4 both can be set to have an explosive yield of 300 tons of TNT (0.3 kilotons)."
And maybe it's even more unlikely any nuclear exchange would progress beyond a cold-war tit-for-tat series of strikes on military targets of approximate equal value to the other side.
But suppose things get out of hand?
"Peer-reviewed scientific studies predict that a war fought with hundreds or thousands of US and Russian strategic nuclear weapons would ignite nuclear firestorms over tens of thousands of square miles.
"These mass fires would produce between 50 million to 150 million tons of smoke, which would quickly rise above cloud level in to the stratosphere, where winds would carry it around the Earth.
"In a matter of weeks or months, a global stratospheric smoke layer would form, which would block up to 70% of warming sunlight, quickly producing Ice Age weather conditions in the Northern Hemisphere..."
"The scientists predict that temperatures in the central US and Eurasia would fall below freezing every day for about three years.
"The smoke, the darkness, and extreme cold weather would last for ten years or longer, eliminating growing seasons, making it impossible to grow food.
"Most people and animals would perish from nuclear famine.
"Nuclear war is suicide for the human race."
Ukraine + NATO = Nuclear War
"NATO has at least a couple hundred US B61 nuclear weapons forward deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey. The B61 is a 'variable yield' weapon; the two models currently forward-based in Europe, the B61-3 and B61-4 both can be set to have an explosive yield of 300 tons of TNT (0.3 kilotons)."
And maybe it's even more unlikely any nuclear exchange would progress beyond a cold-war tit-for-tat series of strikes on military targets of approximate equal value to the other side.
But suppose things get out of hand?
"Peer-reviewed scientific studies predict that a war fought with hundreds or thousands of US and Russian strategic nuclear weapons would ignite nuclear firestorms over tens of thousands of square miles.
"These mass fires would produce between 50 million to 150 million tons of smoke, which would quickly rise above cloud level in to the stratosphere, where winds would carry it around the Earth.
"In a matter of weeks or months, a global stratospheric smoke layer would form, which would block up to 70% of warming sunlight, quickly producing Ice Age weather conditions in the Northern Hemisphere..."
"The scientists predict that temperatures in the central US and Eurasia would fall below freezing every day for about three years.
"The smoke, the darkness, and extreme cold weather would last for ten years or longer, eliminating growing seasons, making it impossible to grow food.
"Most people and animals would perish from nuclear famine.
"Nuclear war is suicide for the human race."
Ukraine + NATO = Nuclear War
