Nuclear war?/? what would happen?

Question

my boyfriend has be playing on cod4 and he looked up some of the places where you go the game, and it got me think.

what would happen if it happen to use (england).

would be all die?

would some die long and painfull deaths?

and does any one think this would happen or not?

just on my mind. so sorry for the stupid question.( and spelling mistakes if they where made)

ems x

Answer 1

Think of the Sahara and then imagine that in place of all the trees and fields and flowers etc.

Answer 2

Emma, you would look up and say "What's that terrible bright ligh------------------------------------... And it would be all over! Just boiling vapour! Terrible, isn't it?

Answer 3

you could kiss your pretty Ar's good by

Answer 4

nothing left of england at all if aything left alive would die soon after radiation would get em,

Answer 5

Watch the movie "Threads" for a pretty horrifying and factual account of what would happen in a nuclear war.

The U.K. would be one of the last places in the world you'd want to be during a nuclear war. If possible, you should try to flee to New Zealand once you see the warning signs.

Answer 6

Nuclear weapons are not the end of the world.

Compared to events that did almost wipe life off the planet, even a complete full scale nuclear exchange is pretty small potatoes.

The last time the Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming cut loose when it was over there were only a few million people left on the entire planet. Yellowstone Lake is spilling out along one edge now from the uprising of the crust beneath. North America will be pretty much depopulated, and Europe will be under the ash plume as well. Bad for you, worse for us.

Another asteroid strike like the one whose impact is still written in the bedrock in central Germany would take out pretty much all of Europe with just thermal effects. The blast wave and splash fragments would do for the rest of the Northern Hemisphere within hours. Bad for us, worse for you.

If the ocean currents carrying warm water from the Carribean to the North Atlantic suffer a diversion event, the British Isles will have the weather that the rest of their lattitude enjoys, similar to what you get in southern Siberia, northern Japan, Hudson's Bay, and the Alaskan panhandle. Terrible for summers at the shore, worse for crops, bad for weather forecasters everywhere.

Crust-splitting eruptions similar to the Deccan and Siberian events could wipe out 90% or more of all life on the planet. Doesn't get much worse than that.

The big difference between a nuclear war and events as described above is that all those things have already happened, and could happen again. Nuclear war is something that we haven't managed to indulge in yet, even though we've had the opportunity to do so for quite some time.

You tell me which of these things are likely causes for concern in light of the historical record.

By the way, even a 1Mt city-buster only completely destroys an area a few miles across. England got similar results against German cities in the 1940's with conventional weapons, as did the United States against Japan long before we dropped the bomb.

As far as radiation, the first nuclear test site in the United States is now a tourist attraction. You can stand on ground zero and pick up bits of fused sand melted in the blast. And as far as I know, there are still people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and tourists likewise can stand on the spot and not begin to glow in the dark.

I'm not saying that a large scale exchange wouldn't totally suck, and it would probably wreck most of your little island, but compared to things that have already happened and will happen again someday, nuclear war isn't something I give much concern to myself.

Answer 7

England would be toast.

If just one bomb were dropped, many would survive.  But if there were an all out nuclear war, England would get hit by many warheads.  Don't think even bacteria would survive.  Look at the damage those little a-bombs did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.  Today's bombs, hydrogen bombs, are 100s of times more powerful.