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RedLion:
But what about the whole Litvinenko-Lugovoi-Berezovsky debacle? Russia and Britain have been engaging in petty tit-for-tat since Alexandre Litvinenko was murdered late in 2006, allegedly by Adrei Lugovoi. Britain asked Russia to extradite Lugovoi to Britian, but the Russians were having none of it, as Berezovsky, a former oligarch turned critic of Putin and the Kremlin, has sought asylum in Britain against corruption and embezzlement charges he faces in Russia, and of course the Britons refuse to extradite him to Russia. So they've been expelling the other's diplomatic staff every once in awhile for the last year or so..I actually think things are worse between between Russia and Britain than they are between America and the former.
KharBevNor:
You could probably kill everyone in the UK with 20 20 megaton bombs, I reckon. Russia has around 6000 strategic nukes.
supersheep:
Thing is, though, in a nuclear war there is basically no-one who wouldn't get hit. For example, Ireland is not a member of NATO, has a military consisting of about seven guys with sticks and a paper aeroplane, and is nominally neutral. Still, we get a couple of nukes where it hurts, because Shannon airport is a convenient location for US flights and also has runways you can fly a B-52 off. Britain has US nukes there (and probably bombers too).
Of course, no-one is going to push the button over something like this. Even if the Cold War had gone hot, it wouldn't have gone nuclear immediately - the Soviets didn't need nukes to roll over Germany, to be honest, and NATO wasn't going to start lobbing them around until it got bad (especially seeing as the first nukes would have been going off on German soil). Nowadays, there's no real ground theatre where the Russian, Chinese, or Americans can end up in combat (at least at the moment), and I don't think anyone is crazy enough to push the button just like that.
The whole Litvinenko thing is just one of those diplomatic spats that happen every so often - America is much more of a geopolitical threat to Russia and vice versa. 20 20-megaton bombs is probably a bit too few, although there wouldn't be much left to be honest.
Patrick:
With Russia flat-out saying "We will probably nuke you" to Ukraine (moar liek NUKE RAIN amirite) not even 2 months ago, my spirits have been lowered considerably.
Nodaisho:
Fun fact: Even roaches won't survive. There are some bugs that will, but roaches die from radiation exposure. Forget what would survive, besides the spider that bit spider-man.
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