What are the most likely events (to earth) if a country nuke another?

Question

I am referring to ICBM. How about nuclear warhead by bombers?

Answer 1

In the first 30 minutes, nearly a billion people will have been vaporised, mostly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. Another 1.5 billion will die shortly thereafter from radiation poisoning. The northern hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity.

Eventually the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere and all plant life will die. You ask what are the likely events to earth, you are asking when will we commit global suicide. My answer is it won't happen soon because the larger superpowers are more rational than the rump states in the middle east.

While we hear talk of a nuclear-Iran or a confrontation with NorKor, little is said about the 2 bulls in the glass shop. The arsenals of Russia and the US are enough to destroy a million Hiroshimas. But there are fewer than 3000 cities on the Earth with populations of 100,000 or more. You cannot find anything like a million Hiroshimas to obliterate. Prime military and industrial targets that are far from cities are comparatively rare. Our biggest threat is from an accidental launch by the Russians.

The current conflict won't be WWIII, just a regional conflict among rump states heaped on the pile of other regional conflicts. When the superpowers are involved in opposite camps, then come back and talk about WWIII.

At the point of global suicide, it doesn't matter who is on what side or what happens to the biosphere... In a nuclear age the only true enemy is war itself.

Answer 2

I believe that we'd all be better off if we could analyze and discuss our options for protecting our country in the nuclear age dispassionately and in practical terms, without exaggeration or bombast.

Needless to say, it's a very serious subject and deserves our most focused thinking and most civil and collaborative dialogue.

Answer 3

There would be a lot of "fall out" in many parts of the earth bringing much illness, death and possible mutations of plants and animals. Perhaps the people who were left would rethink the idea of war but then again they are more likely to keep retaliating.

Answer 4

Nothing lasting. Not even a total exchange of weapons between all the Nuclear powers would faze earth.

Answer 5

Then that country and its allies would retaliate, and then the initial nuker's allies would retaliate. The whole thig would turn global in less than a week.

Answer 6

russia already said they had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world nine times over,i tend to believe them, one are to be enough,but hell lets go for nine or ten.

Answer 7

The earth would be fine, but the casualties would be high.

Answer 8

Well, there is a movie that outlines this.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end.php
enjoy!!!!

Answer 9

Probably... nuke back.