Is US victory possible in a nuclear war with Russia?
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States of America remained the militarily strongest power on the planet. The US nuclear arsenal is the largest in the world, and this country is the only one that has applied it in practice in the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
According to some reports, the US military-industrial complex has created, since 1945, over 66 thousand nuclear warheads. In 1991, the creation of new ammunition was suspended, but the arms program involves resuming the production of nuclear weapons, although Washington has more than enough stockpiles to arrange an apocalypse.
In the days of the USSR, global security was provided by the so-called doctrine of "nuclear deterrence." The potential aggressor was confident that he would receive a retaliatory strike that would turn his own peaceful cities into radioactive dust. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of military parity, the United States began to build a unipolar world at its discretion. Washington's goal was to surround the weakened young Russian Federation and the growing Communist China with a picket fence from missile defense systems and a fence from military bases. As conceived by the American military strategists, both Russia and the PRC should have been deprived of the opportunity not only to deliver the first strike using nuclear weapons, but even a retaliatory “retaliation strike”.
The White House sought to be able to deliver an irresistible blow at its discretion with minimal risk to itself.
However, now American scientists have come to the conclusion that the United States of America will be defeated even in the most successful outcome of a nuclear attack on potential adversaries. Researchers from the University of Michigan came to the conclusion that if the American military was the first to launch thousands of its missiles with nuclear charges at their enemies and they didn’t have time or could not launch their missiles across the United States, then such a “victory” would be “pyrrhic” for Americans.
At the same time, hundreds of millions of residents of the states that are attacking the American army and navy will die. But the planet itself would have avenged the aggressor. Monstrous fires will start, the smoke from which and radioactive ash will remain in the Earth's stratosphere for many years, covering its surface from sunlight. The temperature on the planet would drop sharply, as well as the level of precipitation, which would kill agriculture on all continents and lead to massive hunger. A huge amount of harmful substances would get into the atmosphere, including from destroyed industrial enterprises. The ozone layer would be destroyed and the surface of the earth would be irradiated with dangerous cosmic radiation. Ecosystems in the oceans would soon die, depriving humanity of the last chance of survival.
Even if they “won” in a global nuclear war, the Americans would have lost, painfully dying from the consequences of the “nuclear winter”.
According to some reports, the US military-industrial complex has created, since 1945, over 66 thousand nuclear warheads. In 1991, the creation of new ammunition was suspended, but the arms program involves resuming the production of nuclear weapons, although Washington has more than enough stockpiles to arrange an apocalypse.
In the days of the USSR, global security was provided by the so-called doctrine of "nuclear deterrence." The potential aggressor was confident that he would receive a retaliatory strike that would turn his own peaceful cities into radioactive dust. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of military parity, the United States began to build a unipolar world at its discretion. Washington's goal was to surround the weakened young Russian Federation and the growing Communist China with a picket fence from missile defense systems and a fence from military bases. As conceived by the American military strategists, both Russia and the PRC should have been deprived of the opportunity not only to deliver the first strike using nuclear weapons, but even a retaliatory “retaliation strike”.
The White House sought to be able to deliver an irresistible blow at its discretion with minimal risk to itself.
However, now American scientists have come to the conclusion that the United States of America will be defeated even in the most successful outcome of a nuclear attack on potential adversaries. Researchers from the University of Michigan came to the conclusion that if the American military was the first to launch thousands of its missiles with nuclear charges at their enemies and they didn’t have time or could not launch their missiles across the United States, then such a “victory” would be “pyrrhic” for Americans.
At the same time, hundreds of millions of residents of the states that are attacking the American army and navy will die. But the planet itself would have avenged the aggressor. Monstrous fires will start, the smoke from which and radioactive ash will remain in the Earth's stratosphere for many years, covering its surface from sunlight. The temperature on the planet would drop sharply, as well as the level of precipitation, which would kill agriculture on all continents and lead to massive hunger. A huge amount of harmful substances would get into the atmosphere, including from destroyed industrial enterprises. The ozone layer would be destroyed and the surface of the earth would be irradiated with dangerous cosmic radiation. Ecosystems in the oceans would soon die, depriving humanity of the last chance of survival.
Even if they “won” in a global nuclear war, the Americans would have lost, painfully dying from the consequences of the “nuclear winter”.
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