What if the Cold War Went Nuclear?
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while Westberlin was a relativly tiny capitalist enclave inside east-germany that would have been taken immediatly by soviet forces and held hostage, it would probably still be spared by american nukes, because it would be a major blow to moral for any remaining ground forces in westgermany, if they just sacrificed their allies like that.
a spontanous nuclear war would perhaps leave so little west and east of the iron curtain that no conventional land-invasion is facilitated in europe, however west-berlin was permanently surrounded by soviet forces, the soviet had no reason to nuke any asset that was in their immediate grasp.
I believe these factors would leave berlin, after a total nuclear war between east and west, in a interesting position,
if the soviet command was nuked into oblivion, perhaps the remaining forces in berlin would probably negotiate a peace, just to not get nuked or starved to death.
if NATO was dimantled by the nuclear exchange, the soviets would probably use berlin as a central hub of governance for whats left of europe.
if both western and eastern powers are just completly dead the remnants of the red army in berlin would attempt to adapt to the new landscape and become some pseudo-soviet-east-german-militaristic state.
Date: 2022-07-15
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Sitesh
India would become the World Power if this happens. There wont be anything like a Dis-Mantling society or nation like you said. If India remains un-touched, it would rather be one of the greatest things to be proud of, for everyone in India. India would be definitly have a terrible war with Pakistan, which it will win, as India had Nuclear Bombs around 1974, Largest Population in South East Asia, and India, if it could have got a good leadership which would take Initiative, then India would be at the fore-front of the Global Geo-Politics. Also, even without Nukes, India would win a war against Pakistan would be able to better control its possession occupied by China today. Sure the standard of living might be way different than other nations, but India would still come above anyhow.
Fun Fact: India made a Successful Nuclear Power Plant in 1951, named APSARA, while just getting Independence in 1947; HENCE PROVING SCIENTIFIC POTENTIAL.
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India would become the World Power if this happens. There wont be anything like a Dis-Mantling society or nation like you said. If India remains un-touched, it would rather be one of the greatest things to be proud of, for everyone in India. India would be definitly have a terrible war with Pakistan, which it will win, as India had Nuclear Bombs around 1974, Largest Population in South East Asia, and India, if it could have got a good leadership which would take Initiative, then India would be at the fore-front of the Global Geo-Politics. Also, even without Nukes, India would win a war against Pakistan would be able to better control its possession occupied by China today. Sure the standard of living might be way different than other nations, but India would still come above anyhow.
Fun Fact: India made a Successful Nuclear Power Plant in 1951, named APSARA, while just getting Independence in 1947; HENCE PROVING SCIENTIFIC POTENTIAL.
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Swagmund_Freud666
A rather minor side note, but the dialects of English in American and Canada would split extremely quickly. Without a national education system pushing a standard dialect, and no TV or internet where you can hear other accents, the accents that are very different from yours would split incredibly quickly and mutual intelligibility would decrees too. If someone lived their whole life in America and never once heard the accent of a British person I'm skeptical of their ability to understand each other if they met one. This would be increased even more by the massive increase in illiteracy. Even those few who have some knowledge of reading would likely just know the alphabet and maybe some extra rules here and there, so people would just write how they sound things out.
cuz ya see afder da grayt wor peeplerna right lighk dis n idl be baste on der loekl axn n idl mayk da dighlex eevin mor difrint.
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A rather minor side note, but the dialects of English in American and Canada would split extremely quickly. Without a national education system pushing a standard dialect, and no TV or internet where you can hear other accents, the accents that are very different from yours would split incredibly quickly and mutual intelligibility would decrees too. If someone lived their whole life in America and never once heard the accent of a British person I'm skeptical of their ability to understand each other if they met one. This would be increased even more by the massive increase in illiteracy. Even those few who have some knowledge of reading would likely just know the alphabet and maybe some extra rules here and there, so people would just write how they sound things out.
cuz ya see afder da grayt wor peeplerna right lighk dis n idl be baste on der loekl axn n idl mayk da dighlex eevin mor difrint.
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Qlder02
Mate, love your videos, but I must say you've completely dropped the ball with the Australian (and New Zealander) bits here. Like at 3: 19, you show us on the world with a mushroom cloud (I presume that means we're getting nuked, THEN at 3: 34 you show on the map that we're one of the countries that WON'T get nuked while only talking about how the other three countries that you've coloured in will be the most substantial countries after a nuclear war (even though we're the wealthiest of the five nations you've coloured in there, THEN at 10: 40 you talk about how we could've survived. THEN at 14: 39 you talk about how technologies such as nuclear fission would stagnate even though we would still have the potential to use them provided that we survived as you talked about earlier, THEN at 18: 05 you talk about how our chances of reforming are pretty low. Like, what's with all the inconsistencies?
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Mate, love your videos, but I must say you've completely dropped the ball with the Australian (and New Zealander) bits here. Like at 3: 19, you show us on the world with a mushroom cloud (I presume that means we're getting nuked, THEN at 3: 34 you show on the map that we're one of the countries that WON'T get nuked while only talking about how the other three countries that you've coloured in will be the most substantial countries after a nuclear war (even though we're the wealthiest of the five nations you've coloured in there, THEN at 10: 40 you talk about how we could've survived. THEN at 14: 39 you talk about how technologies such as nuclear fission would stagnate even though we would still have the potential to use them provided that we survived as you talked about earlier, THEN at 18: 05 you talk about how our chances of reforming are pretty low. Like, what's with all the inconsistencies?
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RaioGelato
A brazil led oas would probably revive mexico and what remains os the us and canada would be pillaged and colonized by brazil, maybe brazil can even find some untouched nuclear weapons and high tech american jets, i also see arpanet being expanded to latin america, in order to make latin american scientists help surviving american scientists, i can see surviving american factories aiding the economical revival of the west, a decade or so after the war i can see portugal being reconquered by brazil and spain by argentina, maybe japan is better off in the post apocalyptic world due to having a big population of japanese people in brazil, those descendants could help in recreating a japanese state, by the 2040s Brazil would have as much influence in the world as all of nato combined, Australia would also expand to indonesia and maybe even to indochina.
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A brazil led oas would probably revive mexico and what remains os the us and canada would be pillaged and colonized by brazil, maybe brazil can even find some untouched nuclear weapons and high tech american jets, i also see arpanet being expanded to latin america, in order to make latin american scientists help surviving american scientists, i can see surviving american factories aiding the economical revival of the west, a decade or so after the war i can see portugal being reconquered by brazil and spain by argentina, maybe japan is better off in the post apocalyptic world due to having a big population of japanese people in brazil, those descendants could help in recreating a japanese state, by the 2040s Brazil would have as much influence in the world as all of nato combined, Australia would also expand to indonesia and maybe even to indochina.
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Brian
I'm glad to see you address the fetishisation of nuclear weapons effects. I think you might be overestimating the chance of a nuclear winter though. To optimize the destructive potential of a nuclear weapon, it must be detonated at a relatively high altitude. Air bursts would not loft significant debris into the air. So, really once you are done with the first set of anti-silo strikes, the need for ground bursts is basically gone.
Another thing, I think, would be aluminium becoming the primary basis for the money supply. Aluminium is a very useful metal, and it is nearly impossible to make without advanced industrial processes. The result would be scrounging for pre-war aluminum scraps to reuse.
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I'm glad to see you address the fetishisation of nuclear weapons effects. I think you might be overestimating the chance of a nuclear winter though. To optimize the destructive potential of a nuclear weapon, it must be detonated at a relatively high altitude. Air bursts would not loft significant debris into the air. So, really once you are done with the first set of anti-silo strikes, the need for ground bursts is basically gone.
Another thing, I think, would be aluminium becoming the primary basis for the money supply. Aluminium is a very useful metal, and it is nearly impossible to make without advanced industrial processes. The result would be scrounging for pre-war aluminum scraps to reuse.
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Xpert
you always underestimate india's unity understandable historically but the only divide i could see happening is north/south divide along the vindhya/satpura ranges. because of the difference between dravidian and aryan culture groups. India will stay together under the strong leadership and the division that u showed is utterly impossible as there is a lack of local leadership as leaders(local) are not selected on their merits but which party they represent, infact india still lacks good local leadership, infact i dont know who is represting my constituency in lok sabha but i know that whoever this is, is a part of BJP. I am not a Indian/Hindu nationalist btw
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you always underestimate india's unity understandable historically but the only divide i could see happening is north/south divide along the vindhya/satpura ranges. because of the difference between dravidian and aryan culture groups. India will stay together under the strong leadership and the division that u showed is utterly impossible as there is a lack of local leadership as leaders(local) are not selected on their merits but which party they represent, infact india still lacks good local leadership, infact i dont know who is represting my constituency in lok sabha but i know that whoever this is, is a part of BJP. I am not a Indian/Hindu nationalist btw
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Soultacer
There was also another close call in the Cuban Missile Crisis where a submarine fleet was on its way to Cuba, off the coast of Florida, and a US destroyer sank a Soviet ship, although it wasn't a military vessel. At that point, on one of the Submarines, there was a nuclear missile, and 2 of the officers, believing that war had started, agreed to launch it. Luckily the fleet commander, Vasily Arkhipov, was on the Submarine, and voted against the decision, and the submarine ended up not launching its missile.
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There was also another close call in the Cuban Missile Crisis where a submarine fleet was on its way to Cuba, off the coast of Florida, and a US destroyer sank a Soviet ship, although it wasn't a military vessel. At that point, on one of the Submarines, there was a nuclear missile, and 2 of the officers, believing that war had started, agreed to launch it. Luckily the fleet commander, Vasily Arkhipov, was on the Submarine, and voted against the decision, and the submarine ended up not launching its missile.
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doomsncrew
Fortunately, you're wrong about something: Stanislav Petrov did recieve medals, awards, and even pensions, he just has not received them from the Soviet regime, it was given to him from abroad, after his decision was made public to the whole world in 1998. He even got invited by the United Nations, invitation which he honored by traveling to New York. He died in 2017, knowing there are people all around the world who are grateful for what he did.
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Fortunately, you're wrong about something: Stanislav Petrov did recieve medals, awards, and even pensions, he just has not received them from the Soviet regime, it was given to him from abroad, after his decision was made public to the whole world in 1998. He even got invited by the United Nations, invitation which he honored by traveling to New York. He died in 2017, knowing there are people all around the world who are grateful for what he did.
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Babylon
You actually correct about the topic eruption that happen 70, 000 years ago we actually thrived underneath the whole eruption since they had less of a chemical composition to set off a volcanic winter which means the volcano really wasn't that much of a threat unless you were on the island itself which even homo fluoresis survived pretty easily so you're technically incorrect by modern standards of how history is from that
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You actually correct about the topic eruption that happen 70, 000 years ago we actually thrived underneath the whole eruption since they had less of a chemical composition to set off a volcanic winter which means the volcano really wasn't that much of a threat unless you were on the island itself which even homo fluoresis survived pretty easily so you're technically incorrect by modern standards of how history is from that
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