What If The Nuclear War Start Now

The nearest time in human history to a nuclear war is Cuba Missile Crisis at 1962. Fortunately, the nuclear war are never broke between US and USSR. Now, after Cold War ended there's little chance that nuclear war will begun. But how if US or Russia are launching their Minuteman or SS-18 Satan (yeah, I know the name was horrified you, it explosive are also like it name) and the nuclear war are started?

Destruction of London if the Tsar Bomba exploded over her skies. Horrifying?

1. Many Cities in the World Will be Destroyed

Okay, put Washington, New York, Moscow, London, St Petersburg, Beijing, Pyongyang, Paris, New Delhi, and Islamabad in this list. They are few from many cities that will destroyed because they are major cities in each of nuclear weapon owned countries. One of Minuteman III that exploded in Center Moscow can killed 618,110 people ( I using the NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein, here the website) that just one of this missile, US have 450 Minuteman III. Imagine how if they all explode in city around the world.

People watching the destroyed building in Hiroshima

2. Many People Will Died Because Nuclear Explosion (radiation fallout and nuclear winter not counted)

The Hiroshima "Little Boy" bomb are killed 90.000-166.000 people, and by nuclear weapons standards now, that was small nuclear weapon. The Minuteman have 300-500 kt of TNT or 20 to 30 times from Hiroshima bomb, TN 80/81, the largest French nuclear arsenal have 300 kt of TNT or 20 times from Hiroshima bomb, the Dong-Feng 5, largest China nuclear weapons have 5 mt of TNT, or 333,333333 times from Hiroshima. Kt means kiloton or thousands of ton, Mt means megaton or million of ton. How much people will killed because the explosion? I don't know.

Nuclear fallout shelter building sign in New York. Did you want to go inside?

3. Many People Will Died Because Radiation Fallout
The radiation fallout are can killed many people, but usually it was long-term effects, 1.900 Hiroshima and Nagasaki people are have cancer 5 or 15 or 30 years after the explosion ad die because cancer .If you are a survivor from explosion in ground zero (this is very unlikely, the nearest survives victims in Hiroshima are 170 m from ground zero, his name is Eizo Nomura) you will have high chance having a cancer many years later. It because the radiation can cause cell mutation so the cell aren't digesting it self after the cell are finish his job like normal cell.

You don't want this happens, right?

4. Nuclear Winter
Nuclear winter is occurred because after nuclear explosion, the firestorm will have enough power for lifting up (many, many) smoke into the upper troposphere and make counter-greenhouse effect (it may sound good, but in reality it was VERY bad) and block sunlight. So you will not see the sun for few year. Maybe for you it was not bad because you are spend many hour and day without sunlight and you will not died, but for plant, this are their nightmare. Back to 4-th grade, plants need sunlight for their photosynthesis. Without sunlight almost all plant will died. That was also have bad news for animal and us because it will destroyed the food chain so we can't get food except you have 10 year food storage. This will kill most of us and the animal.

Did you want to live like them?

5. We Will Back to Stone Age
Einstein are saying this: " I don't know what weapons in the Third World War that will be used, but I sure that Fourth World War will using stone and axe". This mean after 3rd World War our civilization will be destroyed and many of the survivors of this world war live will become like their ancestors thousands years ago. They will have story of our great civilization from mouth to mouth and their hope that once in future our civilization will repeated. So we are becoming hunters-gathers once again.