The Threat of Nuclear War: Which Two Countries Can Survive?
The threat of a nuclear war or World War III is an issue that is becoming less and less trivial. In a geopolitical framework with several open fronts in Ukraine or Israel, nuclear tests by countries such as Russia or North Korea, to which the United States also joins, suggest that a conflict could soon break out imminently and with devastating consequences. The launches of warheads or missiles create a catastrophic panorama in the world and could result in millions of deaths among all countries. However, according to a study, there are two nations whose inhabitants are believed to survive and remain intact.
Washington and Moscow have spoken on numerous occasions, especially after the outbreak of the invasion of Ukraine, about the high probability of a nuclear conflict involving all countries in the world. Not only would the devastating consequences occur instantly, but its effects would be felt many years later, creating a nearly uninhabitable planet that would be very difficult to rebuild.
The Doomsday Clock indicated that we were 90 seconds away from the apocalypse – a symbolic clock that warns of how close we supposedly are to destroying the world, created by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein, in 1947. In 2019, the Science and Global Security program (SGS) from Princeton University, United States, conducted a simulation of a nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States (along with other NATO countries).
According to these reports, more than 34 million people would die in just three hours after a hypothetical launch of three hundred Russian nuclear warheads towards the West, which would respond with almost two hundred against Moscow.
The threats between Russia and NATO about using nuclear weapons are becoming more real. The question remains: which two countries can survive a nuclear war?