Mq, it wouldn't be so bad: If we assume 10 megatons per bomb, with about 13,000 of them
After a day or three, presumably lots of them would still not be fired as instructions would no longer be coming through from bunkers and clouds of radioactive dust disrupting communications, and those supposed to pull the triggers would start to think that maybe it wouldn't actually do anything good to add to the mess where Moscow, New York, Londonistan, Beijing etc used to be. Once Pearl Harbour is evaporated, boiling more Pacific Ocean wouldn't help.
If I was in a boat somewhere, and MAD was well underway back in Blighty and USA had been obliterated, I'd be thinking where would be a good place to beach the ship, swim ashore and hope to find some coconuts to eat. Firing more atomic bombs into the global cauldron would seem pointless. Pitcairn was an unoccupied good place for Fletcher Christian and co when they took over the Bounty and went to hide and survive, but that's full up now. Everywhere is full.
With food production lines down, cannibalism would get a new lease on life. Landing on a Melanesian island might be a bad idea, unless very heavily armed with a good gang. Maoris would rediscover their 19th century cannibal culture. With BMIs well into the 30s, they'd feast for months. Americans too. Hong Kong would be a bad place to arrive as the GDP per person would have gone tits up with no visible means of survival. Singapore too depends almost totally on foreign suppliers.
Maybe a good move would be to fire a neutron bomb over somewhere like Tahiti, which would depopulate the place, leaving space to move in and start fishing and planting kumara. Adding to the radioactive waste over Eurostan, Russia, China, USA etc would be pointless. Clearing space to live might be more attractive to some ship crews.
Heck, good point Mq. A USA carrier fleet could depopulate New Zealand by 90% with neutron bombs, land with thousands of well-armed troops to finish off any obstreperous locals, then go fishing, plant more kumara, milk cows, eat sheep.
I wonder if Boris and co have thought through what MAD would do. Maybe they think Russians will just surrender and finally, after over 200 years of effort in 1812, 1856, WWI, Barbarossa, Russians will be wiped out.
Better to do as I've said all along = Crimea stays in Russia, Donetsk, Luhansk be independent like Brexit, Scotland, Ireland, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Singapore, Aotearoa-Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, USA, and a lot more besides. Add Mariupol/Odessa and whatnot as independent since the stupid Kievans refused to face facts and wanted war, kickbacks, bribery, corruption, murder and carnage, not VVV. That will also keep the water flowing to Crimea. Open the pipelines, cancel all sanctions, start up Nordstream II, clear the mines.
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