Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4621372-20121206202014/@comment-4621372-20121210202218

Scandinator wrote: GunsnadGlory wrote: Scan, I posted that based on what I heard before seeing that sites hit list. In the modern world, accuracy is much, much higher, and all these countries have satelites that can TELL when a site has been hit, and auto-redirect the nukes, even with an active fail-deadly. If what I said, doesn't happen, it'll will just be ASB, way too lucky. In ANY nuclear war in the modern day, according to current alliances. Anyway, in the modern day none of these sites would nuke each other. You forget the EMPs bro... They smash satelites completely. There willl be 10 nukes that are sent for the express purpose of producing EMPs and they will be the first ones to detonate in that area since they do not need to decend. These EMPs would also cause mulfunctions in electronics across the region and can lead to misses, no detonation, etc, etc. in some of the nukes, the anti-missile defenses however are on the ground and can easily be repaired after the EMP. Ok, fair point. In that case, they'll anyway auto redirect, because there are satellites at wide enough orbits to escape this.

As for the nukes, the EMP will have absolutely no effect, because the launch protcols are manual (have to be, otherwise a single malfunction results in WWIII), and once the nukes are launched, it doesn't matter. They may be off by a few miles, but that doesn't matter. The antimissile defenses, meanwhile, WOULD be severaly hurt, because those CAN'T be manual. And in order to 'fix' them, you need to replace the whole thing, something which will take weeks. I very much doubt if the nukes will hang in the air and drink tea while the technicians come and do so. And, of course, the seismological instruments will anyway pick up the nuclear detonations, regardless of the satellites.

Basically, there is no way that humanity will survive from this, plausibly- and if it's implausible, of course, that's not really a barrier. Just let it go, make it ASB.