India-Pakistan Nuclear Standoff: What Does the West Have at Stake in South Asia?

[El Sidd]

The West will use the opportunity to research more on human survival post nuclear meltdown.

Hint: It has happened multiple times before in our history.

 

[Soumitra]

200 nukes- Rough calculation of 1000 sqkm damage per nuke will cover 200,000 sq km of India which is 7 %. Obviously hitting where cities are will claim probably 200 million which is about 20%. ADD ON generational impact to survivors of radiation and dust plumes which will temporarily kill agriculture. I think at least half of India will still survive. Mind you 50% of India is arable so even at 200,000 sqkm damage we will still have 1.4 million sqkm of agri lands. We will need assistance of the West for many decades to overcome but on the whole will survive.
Now Punjab and Sindh in Pak total about 300000 sqkm and most of the troublemakers are in this zone.i think targeting these 2 states will be enough for India to take out Pak and snuffing out Punjabis and mohajirs living in these regions. Also these lands hols most of Paks arable land so nuking these will ensure the rest starve without foreign aid which will not come IF you start the war.
If any religious colour is given then India will not hesitate to hit Islamic centres or religion although knowing India it's unlikely to happen.


Pak cannot do much. They are dependent on others for survival.

No need to try logic on him. He is a gone case repeating the same lines.
He doesn't understand
1 area of destruction from a nuclear bomb vis a vis the total area of India
2 The spread of the population of the country
3 The ability of India to detect the locations of many if not all Pakistani nukes and the destruction of these nukes in our retaliatory strike
4 The basic difference between civilization and religion

The last one is common among lot of Pakistanis. How does it matter to them if some Muslim in Arabia or Africa or Europe or America survive if they , their families, their country is destroyed

 

[nahtanbob]

When it comes to economy india has been winnkng since 2008 but times might change ..the same Pakistan was doing better in mid 2000s

that has to do with debt rescheduling courtesy of 9/11. it has kind of dried up which explains current state of the pakistani economy

 

[MultaniGuy]

No need to try logic on him. He is a gone case repeating the same lines.
He doesn't understand
1 area of destruction from a nuclear bomb vis a vis the total area of India
2 The spread of the population of the country
3 The ability of India to detect the locations of many if not all Pakistani nukes and the destruction of these nukes in our retaliatory strike
4 The basic difference between civilization and religion

The last one is common among lot of Pakistanis. How does it matter to them if some Muslim in Arabia or Africa or Europe or America survive if they , their families, their country is destroyed

Actually it is you who will not listen to reason. You think India is such a big place, when it is not.

India will survive 120 nuclear strikes? Who are you fooling? Stop disagreeing with me for the sake of it.

When will recognize facts when they are given to you.

 

[Soumitra]

Actually it is you who will not listen to reason. You think India is such a big place, when it is not.

India will survive 120 nuclear strikes? Who are you fooling? Stop disagreeing with me for the sake of it.

When will recognize facts when they are given to you.

I will try for the last time .Both @placemat and I have given exact calculation with population, area, population density blast area etc. You have not given any calculation just are repeating one line.

Either give your own calculation or give a LOGICAL rebuttal to our calculation

 

[Hellfire]

India will survive 120 nuclear strikes?

Merely interjecting to point you in the direction you need to head.

Just do a cursory research on effective distance from ground zero for both the surface and atmospheric blasts and use 20 Kt as standard yield (yields of Mt are not applicable in subcontinental context). Your calculations will need a severe rework.

You have online interactive programs for same too.

200 nukes- Rough calculation of 1000 sqkm damage per nuke will cover 200,000 sq km of India which is 7 %. .

Man, what yield are you using? Overestimated Bomb Damage Estimate!

 

[MultaniGuy]

Merely interjecting to point you in the direction you need to head.

Just do a cursory research on effective distance from ground zero for both the surface and atmospheric blasts and use 20 Kt as standard yield (yields of Mt are not applicable in subcontinental context). Your calculations will need a severe rework.

You have online interactive programs for same too.



Man, what yield are you using? Overestimated Bomb Damage Estimate!

Pakistan has tested 600KT you moron. You ask @waz.

You are moronic.

India will not survive 120 nuclear 120KT strikes.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb yields were only 15KYT and they destroyed the Japanese economy.

Here we are talking about 600KT nuclear bomb strikes on India and 120 of them.

Will India survive that?

 

[waz]

Pakistan has tested 600KT you moron. You ask @waz.

You are moronic.

India will not survive 120 nuclear 120KT strikes.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb yields were only 15KYT and they destroyed the Japanese economy.

Here we are talking about 600KT nuclear bomb strikes on India and 120 of them.

Will India survive that?

He thinks Pakistan still has the same yield and weapon types from 21 years ago lol!
Anyway I put up the rebuttal from a leading scientist writing about the power of Pakistan’s weapons in the 500kt range. He can search for it, it’s not hard to find.
This thread has been done to death. Closed.