taking out few cities will not work, nuclear war doesn't work this way. nuclear war means total destruction if only pakistani strategist think taking out few cities will stop this?
pakistani or Indian nuke attack will be for total destruction of full state if any state falls short of it has not...
The talks of Humanity will be over much before a nuke button is pressed, so leave it there only :)
Let us discuss scenarios only please its better to address how much population of say India or Pakistan can be taken out in direct hits.
Around 3000 nuclear tests has been performed with largest...
@bilal
much of it is overhyped, even lethal radiation dose after 1 MT blast only affects around 3 kms, please check the blast area of a 1 MT warhead exploded over optimum 2.4 kms altitude which vaporizes areas of around 10 kms
For finishing up populated area as large as of India totally pakistan...
Why counting in numbers where we should count in %age of population hit, and do you think Indian strategic experts will also nuke rest of Pakistanis in gulf countries?
if we have spare as anyway India after taking 600 nuke hits is a done deal?
Can you please explain how Pakistan will bring more destruction onto India and India can not bring that many on Pakistan scientifically and also we must not shy away from these questions on military forum and dont go with rhetorics.
Suppose according to @Oscar pakistan will nuke every Indian...
If every Indian city with 100k are taken out and every dam should be taken out by pakistan why will India will be kind enough to send the nukes for making pakistani leadership irrelevant?
so India has around 520 cities above 100000 (2011 census) and say 100 dams so this is around 600 nukes so...
so 30 nukes are enough?
but I have read that 150kt-350kt(likely warheads used in Indo-pak war) nuke warhead exploded at optimum altitude will only take an area of about 5 kms at max(read at wiki not able to post link), so 30 nukes for pakistan will be enough?
and why will India risk wont take...
lol wat u gonna do send your noisy submarines through Malacca strait easy find and kill for P-8I :suicide: or send your surface ships from thr, easy meat for our Brahmos :suicide:
Before you know all your military ships will be under water and all civilian ships will be in our possesion or sunk...