India vs Pakistan
A nuclear war analysis
They both have nuclear weapons. Pakistan relies on missiles, and India relies on aircraft to deliver their nuclear weapons. They both have extremely advanced submarines that can launch nuclear missiles from the Indian Ocean. That makes it very ugly, and very easy to start a nuclear exchange.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080407-nuclear-ozonehole.html
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Regional Nuclear War Would Affect Entire Globe
By Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer
Devastation of a regional nuclear war would be far from confined to the countries that started it. Plants and animals, including humans, would be endangered by a global ozone hole that would result and persist for years after all the bombs were exhausted.
The layer of ozone high up in the Earth's atmosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun before it hits the Earth's surface. Without it, almost all lifeforms would be bombarded by this energetic radiation.
Researchers used a computer model to see how a small tactical nuclear device (in this case between Pakistan and India) involving a 25-50 kiloton atomic fission device (similar to but just a bit larger than the Nagasaki device).
Smoky soot plumes
Previous studies, including a 1985 National Research Council Report, had examined the effects of atomic effects on ozone loss by considering the chemicals the bombs would spew into the atmosphere. But they failed to consider the massive smoke plumes that would rise into the air as the bombed-out cities burned.
The new study considers both, painting a picture of citywide firestorms and central core fires.
A previous study conducted by Toon showed that as buildings, cars and other infrastructure burned, the air above would fill with soot. Some of this soot would fall out of the atmosphere in radioactiove black rains, but none of the U.S. or Russian nuclear weapons are designed for ground burst fuse systems. All are fuzed for high-altitude air burst for linnear destruction.
The heat from these detonations would be very severe, and would start everything on fire within a 5-mile radius. Only people who sought protection behind buildings or those who were underground would survive.
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