Will a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan cause enough

daninthemoon

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Sat Nov-29-08 10:23 AM
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Will a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan cause enough

Edited on Sat Nov-29-08 10:29 AM by daninthemoon

of a nuclear winter to forestall global warming? not the ideal solution to put it mildly, but the thought occured to me.

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Atman

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Sat Nov-29-08 10:33 AM
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1. There will be no nuclear exchange

I may be a pollyanna on this one, but I don't think ANYONE is going to use a nuke again. We all saw what they do. We all know what will ensue if one is launched, even "those guys over there." They're not sequestered on an island like Japan...they'd be blowing up their neighbors, and they know that a first strike will essentially mean the end of BOTH parties, forever. Nukes' purpose it to keep your enemies from fucking with you. It tends to work. No one ever gains anything by actually USING a nuke, only owning them and threatening people with them. Once you use one, the game is over and you don't "win" anything.

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Bandit

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Sat Nov-29-08 10:40 AM
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2. And there will never be a suicide bomber again because those things kill people.

Crazy is as crazy does.. Don't ever count your chicks until they are hatched..

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Atman

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Sat Nov-29-08 10:46 AM
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4. A suicide bomber is a different thing

He'll kill himself to avenge a death or in thinking that he's helping "save" his people or his cause. Killing himself for that cause gets HIM into paradise. The people he kills don't go with him. That includes his mother, father, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, etc. Annihilating EVERYTHING serves no purpose. Killing YOURSELF brings a hefty reward in the sky. I see that as very different things.

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Warren Stupidity

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Sat Nov-29-08 11:12 AM
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5. Perhaps not a strategic nuke

at least not outside of the nightmare scenario of a false positive mistaken defensive launch, which was the scenario that those pesky atomic scientists thought was the most likely to happen up until the US and the USSR put the trigger guards back on the missiles.

However the failed bush administration rewrote policy on tactical nukes to include first strike use of these weapons if they felt like it, and it is widely rumored that they indeed felt like it in their planning for their preemptive strike on Iran, an attack which thankfully never took place.

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Edweird

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Sat Nov-29-08 12:36 PM
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8. I agree. No exchange.

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FarCenter

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Sat Nov-29-08 10:43 AM
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3. Probably not

It might cause significant cooling, but only for a couple of years.

The total yield would be less than that the atmospheric tests during the '50s and '60s.

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TheWraith

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Sat Nov-29-08 11:47 AM
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6. Very, very doubtful.

Climate studies on the potential effects of "nuclear winter" (which I still think is a bit of a stupid term) have all centered around a nuclear exchange in the range of thousands of warheads. Even the combined entire stockpiles of India and Pakistan only number about 250.

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Dreamer Tatum

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Sat Nov-29-08 11:49 AM
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7. Would sawing your nose off prevent shit from stinking?

I don't think so.

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leftofthedial

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Sat Nov-29-08 01:23 PM
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9. Maybe they should just go for it.

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