[OfSanguineFire]

> If you aren’t familiar, look up Tsar Bomba on youtube and witness how terrifyingly destructive a 50 megaton warhead is

Tsar Bomba was a one-off experiment – and one designed for some level of psychological intimidation that you appear to have fallen for. No nuclear-armed country today maintains 50-megaton warheads for actual use against an adversary. Instead, planning involves use of a larger number of smaller warheads, and that is already enough to be worried about.

[me_me_me]

That is a dead on take.

You dont have to kill everyone in nuclear strikes. Destroy every single powerplant, radio station and port in a single strike and watch them going back to dark ages in matter of minutes.

No electricity and no communications means mass chaos. every city becomes a unsustainable trap with no supplies.

It would be terrifying to be in a middle of that. A nation that would tear itself apart for self preservation while all supplies are somewhere far out, 'in a place where food comes from'.

[darkwraithcov]

Do they maintain weapons that would cause the same level of destruction when used in tandem? I am not familiar with modern arsenals. I guess I was just ruminating on what is possible, not what is practical that was my mistake.