(09-06-2023, 11:04 AM)OmegaLogos Wrote: And worse case scenario is Russia deploys all 1200 ICBM's and 200 are shot down [67% kill ratio by Aegis missiles] = leaving 1000 ICBM's making it through that protective net, to hit their targets world wide.
In a worst case scenario if each ICBM carries a single warhead then 200 Satan-1 and Satan-2 missiles [each carrying a 20MT warhead = 4GT] and 800 other ICBM's [each carrying a 225KT warhead = 180MT] then the world would suffer 4.180 GigaTons of damage.
Scientists worked out that if 100 x 20KT nukes were detonated world wide in the same hour the planet as we know it would be destroyed = a mere 2MT which is 25 times less than the Tzar Bombs [50MT] damage.
We knew better than that back in the '80s. "Destroyed" is more like their buzzword. I mean, I wouldn't want to instantly revert back to the Stone Age ... but, we wouldn't all be killed outright.
And, truthfully, the things that are strategic targets are things that might make you go, "Huh!! I never would have thought off that, but that's pretty damned smart if you really wanna knock a country down and keep it down for good."