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Old 03-03-2008, 03:00 AM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by gamercube View Post
Russia has the largest number of nukes in the world. They are also the largest country in the world (areawise). Which means that they could nuke the US many times over, and survive the retaliatory nuking by just moving to the other end of their country. I doubt anyone in the world could "defeat" Russia at all. (Of course, the same goes for the US).
If you get into the # of operational, deliverable nukes, the US has far more. Russia can be a thousand times bigger than it is now; in a nuclear war, every major hub with 100,000+ people will probably be hit multiple times.

I doubt that in an all-out nuclear war, ANY country would be able to avoid total destruction, let alone defeat. Actually, scratch that, I have no doubts at all.
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