how many times would the world be blown up form the bombs of the cold war?

Question

Ive heard the answer a million times but cannot remember for the life of me?

Sorce is requested :)

Answer 1

Sorry I don't remember either. I'm sure it was many thousands of times at least.
Please keep in mind the IMPORTANT FACT that the world wasn't blown up.
Why? Because both the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union wanted to LIVE! Those bombs, as dangerous as they were, were an effective strategy to prevent war.
At the end of the cold war, while others rejoiced, I said " Now we have made the world safe for war again."
Cynical? Yes, but factual.
No one wanted any significant wars while the atom bomb was a real threat.
The terrorists of today are another situation. A cold war approach would not be possible.
THEY WANT TO KILL EVERYONE and let Allah sort us all out. They think they will all go to heaven and us infidels will all go to hell.
That is what they WANT.
We must NEVER allow them to have nuclear bombs regardless of what we must do to prevent it!

Answer 2

You can't 'blow' up the world with nukes. Though if you hit the right spots you could make the earth blow itself up... like nuke the core or something. Anyway, the countries with nuclear weapons (United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa) have a lot of nuclear weapons. Enough to destroy most of the surface of the Earth and wipe us out with it.

Even if the nukes didn't destroy us, the radiation from all those bombs would be so dense it would blast holes through the ozone layer, unleashing hell on Earth from the direct sunlight - we'd die from the radiation alone but if you still survive after that, intense heat from the broken ozone layer will result in apocalyptic environmental change. All glaciers will melt, oceans will rise, earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions, the whole nine yards... The U.S. and Russia alone have more than 20,000 nukes combined. (Meathook, your estimate is lower than the actual).

So pretty much, we'd all die. After all, the only reason it was a COLD War (meaning there was no actual fighting/war) was because of MAD. Mutually Assured Destruction. The one reason that the U.S. and USSR (Russia) scrambled for nukes was because of MAD - without it there would have been a nuclear war. The purpose of MAD is that it stopped the U.S. and USSR from nuking each other because of the knowledge that if one launched nukes at the other, then the other would also launch all nukes, resulting in the destruction of both forces. Destruction of both forces = not a good thing = no actual firing of missiles.

Answer 3

I don't know about by the weapons of the Cold War. I do know it was pretty common to hear the world could be destroyed 100 times over, but that was a fallacy. The USA and former Soviet Republics currently only have about 10,000 active nuclear warheads between them which sounds like a lot, but when taken into context neither amount is large enough to totally destroy either country(ies) much less the world.

Edit - Big thumbs up to Robert for using logic. And I don't care how many nukes there was during the Cold War it was not going to blow up the world, only destroy life on the planet.

Answer 4

Im not sure what that means but, I'm pretty certain that being that the number is at least once, thats all that really matters.

Answer 5

I think you'd have a hard time blowing the Earth up more than once.