What degree of nuclear war is survivable?

Question

Could the horror theater of full scale nuclear war, involving hundreds of thermonuclear detonations play host to a winner? Could there be a anything other than "losers" in such an exchange?

Answer 1

We have already exploded hundreds of nuc warheads, and there has not been such destruction as you wish for.

We have blasted hundreds within the continental US and hundreds more overseas, all for testing.

Get over it.

Answer 2

No, the warring countries would take themselves, and everybody else down with them.

Answer 3

The US would win.  The earth would and can survive a full scale nuclear war.  The sailors in our boomers and the surviving sheep would be a perfect match in recreating American society as it exists today.  

Answer 4

Cockroaches and Twinkies will be the winners.

Vet-USAF / 44MMS Ellsworth AFB SD

Answer 5

Look up Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) that will explain who "wins" an nuclear war. No mattrer, who survives, the impending fallout, and nuclear winter, not to mention the economic turmoil, energy unrest, and the obvious power vacums that will result from world leaders dying in the blasts.

Answer 6

You don't want to survive in a nuclear war. Just take your lawn chair outside, and wait for the bright lite

Answer 7

No one wants nuclear war.  Not even iran.  Because Once one country shoots their nuke.  other countries in turn will shoot theirs and the earth with be destroyed.  No one wants that.  They want to take over the world not destroy it.

And plus the US can detect a nuke bomb en route to the USA and destroy it before it harms anything.

Answer 8

I don't know. Don't even want to think about it...

Answer 9

A huge full-scale nuclear war is probably not survivable except by a few humans who would have to live underground for a very long time.  

But what's very survivable are nuclear accidents and very limited nuclear exchanges.  But you've got to have a plan.  We don't tend to make any plans because we just assume that if an A-Bomb goes off we all die instantly - but it ain't so.  Plenty of A-bombs went off all the time in the 50's - some people go cancer, but most of us came through ok.  Both the Russians and ourselves were touching these big boomers off every few months to scare each other.

There's any number of books on surviving a nuclear war - but of course if it's a big one, nobody's going to survive except molds and cockroaches - ants probably.