Thread: When The End Comes, It Will Be At The Hands Of The Anchients

Originally Posted by FreshBrains

I think that we'll kill most of ourselves off by Nuking or whatever
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Nuclear war is extremely unlikely. You've probably all heard of the MAD - mutual assured destruction theory.

For those of you too lazy to read the wikipedia article, the MAD theory says that the launching of nuclear weapons by one country would result in the other country returning an equal or greter force of nuclear weapons. Both sides would end up destroyed.

No country's government would be stupid enough to actually launch nuclear weapons against another. They are only there for the sake of making empty threats. Each country that has nuclear weapons only has them because so many other countries do - they would be left completely exposed without them. It is very unlikely that Nuclear weapons would ever be used in a full on "nuclear war".

Originally Posted by badassbob

Nuclear war is extremely unlikely. You've probably all heard of the MAD - mutual assured destruction theory.

For those of you too lazy to read the wikipedia article, the MAD theory says that the launching of nuclear weapons by one country would result in the other country returning an equal or greter force of nuclear weapons. Both sides would end up destroyed.

No country's government would be stupid enough to actually launch nuclear weapons against another. They are only there for the sake of making empty threats. Each country that has nuclear weapons only has them because so many other countries do - they would be left completely exposed without them. It is very unlikely that Nuclear weapons would ever be used in a full on "nuclear war".
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But hasn't it come to your mind that the potential nuclear WWIII can be initiated just by chance and not exactly on purpose. Then in a total chaos and hell no one's gonna to speculate who was guilty. It'd be too late.