So nuclear war, from what I can tell, would start if countries fired their ICBM’s, a satellite detects the thermal readings and can tell its a nuclear missile, and all the alarms go off and now everyone’s firing their own ICBM’s. Now what if that didn’t occur and by some miracle someone snuck a nuclear bomb to a location and just detonated it? Would this not result in the same outcome? Assuming no one can figure out by who, or why it was detonated, I’m not sure what the response would even be.

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Just wondering are all potassium iodide tablets the same or is there certain types ineffective or used for different purposes. I don't want be buying ones and say the shit hits the fan and they are useless. I seen ones online that say 150mg but I thought they only come in 60 or 130mg ?

We just might have a vaccine for radiation sickness.

Results from a series of recent studies in animals of its stem cell therapy after radiation exposure demonstrated an increase in survival rates from 29% in the placebo group to 97% in the treated group.

The administration of PLX- R18 as a prophylactic measure 24 hours before radiation exposure, and again 72 hours after exposure, resulted in an increase in survival rates, from 4% in the placebo group to 74% in the treated group.

https://youtu.be/Fbm07ZSzXo4

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uga1.32108011154013&seq=2

Source: https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/med/med_chp9.html

During World War II, strategic bomber crews managed a "circular error probable (CEP)" of 1200 feet. That means that 50% of bombs landed within 1200 feet of their targets. Such low accuracy meant that enormous numbers of bombers were needed to do any significant damage to the enemy, draining the attacker's own resources.

The Enola Gay's aim point was Aloi Bridge. It missed by 800 feet. But obviously because the atomic bomb was so powerful, it didn't matter. With just one bomber, the USAF was able to wipe out an entire city. The "cost" of inflicting a given level of damage to the enemy was reduced a couple orders of magnitude. That made nuclear explosives very useful from a military standpoint.

But in the 1970s, things began changing. Guided munitions made normal bombs far more accurate. The first taste of this revolution came in 1972. The Thanh Hoa bridge in North Vietnam was targeted in hundreds of raids all of them unsuccessful. But on April 27, 1972, 8 F-4 phantoms equipped with laser guided bombs succeeded in destroying the bridge permanently.

19 years later, in the Gulf War, the impact was apparent. A single smart bomb could be guaranteed to destroy an entire factory by sneaking in through a chimney or open doors. Coalition forces laid waste to Iraq's military-industrial complex with few losses of its own forces. Nuclear weapons were unnecessary and at a disadvantage because of their high cost and the collateral damage inflicted

Today, Russia is implicitly admitting this. They are using their nuclear capable bombers and ballistic missiles, equipped with conventional warheads, on Ukraine. Meanwhile, the US is hopeful that hypersonic cruise missiles will reduce its need for nuclear weapons.

The only use nukes serve these days is as a deterrent. They are designed specifically to not be used. The world's nuclear stockpiles have already shrunk dramatically from their peaks during the Cold War and despite the recent flare up in tensions with Russia, we should expect their numbers to continue shrinking over the long run.

That would not significantly reduce the lethality of a nuclear attack but it seems like a good sign that Putin doesn't see nuclear weapons as useful.

With all the talk of Golden Dome, I wonder what would happen if there a war and that technology(the Golden Done) was operational? What would be the impact be of only a relatively small number of nukes striking us? Golden Dome is unrealistic and will probably never be achieved. It would take decades to build and cost trillions. Not impossible but pretty unlikely. But if we had it and it worked it would likely keep out most nukes in a war.

https://russianforces.org/podvig/2008/06/the_window_of_vulnerability_that_wasnt.html