What A Nuclear War Between The U.S. And Russia Could Look Like

A Russian Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile test-launched from a missile silo at Plesetsk Cosmodrome, September 2019. © Russian Defence Ministry  

Popular Mechanics: This Is What a Nuclear War Between the U.S. and Russia Could Look Like 

* The Russian invasion of Ukraine has ushered in a return to large-scale conventional warfare. 

* If the United States and Russia were to engage in direct air, land, and sea conflict, the risk of nuclear war would become much more likely. 

* An all-out nuclear war would likely involve more than 3,000 warheads used by both sides, killing well over 100 million Americans and Russians. 

 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is already one of the most destructive and lethal wars in recent memory, from the shelling of cities to the use of thermobaric“vacuum weapons.” That’s led experts and civilians, alike, to wonder what—if NATO and the U.S. become directly involved in the conflict—a nuclear war between Washington and Moscow might look like. 

Here, Popular Mechanics examines two classic nuclear attack scenarios: a counterforce strike and a countervalue strike. The counterforce scenario examines what might happen if Russia attacked America’s nuclear arsenal with its own in an attempt to neutralize America’s nuclear-capable bombers, submarines, and land-based missiles. The second, more devastating countervalue scenario involves an all-out use of nukes to destroy the United States’ ability to wage war, with the side effect of reducing American society to a pre-industrial level of development.  

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