If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?
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Death would win.
No, really. One country would send a nuclear bomb, the other would counter it by sending another bomb to explode the first missile.
Then, due to the extremely high radiation levels emitted from those weapons, mankind would die out.
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Re: If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?Depends on whether or not Nuclear Weapons were used or not.
If it had gone nuclear, both Russia and America would have been obliterated, along with Europe. Russia would have lost less people because most of Russia's population live in rural areas, whereas it's the opposite for the US. However, the ensuing fallout, nuclear contamination and nuclear winter would have slowly killed off most of the worlds population; experts have estimated that 50 years after a nuclear war, the worlds population would have been only 500 million, with most of those people being in the Southern Hemisphere.
If a conventional war occurred, America would have won - Their military were superior in terms of equipment, training and morale, also their Air Force and Navy were the biggest and undoubtedly the best in the world. Plus the US had the support of NATO allies such as the UK, France and West Germany, who also had very strong military's. -
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Re: If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?when you think of it in terms of nukes flying all over the place, which it would have probably been(Original post by BeanofJelly)
Everyone would have lost.
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Re: If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?If it went hot just after WW2, Russia would have sweeped it. The Allies were always afraid of a Russian betrayal for that reason. But slowly, with terrible agricultural policies, mass famine and terrible economic planning, they became less of a threat, other than in a nuclear situation.
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Re: If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?USA. Mainly because I think (especially during the tensions of the late 1960s which indirectly involved the US) China and the USSR disliked each other so much - they nearly had a war, which America would have stepped in on the side of the Chinese - that they would have allied with the USA. India I think would also have supported the USA.
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Re: If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?The arms industry does.(Original post by Bob400001)
Nobody wins in war. -
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Re: If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?no one would have won, each superpower would have destroyed each other, which would then lead to a mass out break of cancer for those who didnt die in the actual attacks, then just as an added bonus our food supplies would have been ruined by the radiation from the blast. Just a cheery thought
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Re: If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?Maybe the threat of nuclear retailiation would have ensure that no-one pressed the button to launch the nukes, thus we would have got a conventional war. USA hands down due to equipment, technology and more importantly, it had the strong economy needed to fund research programs and the war whilst being able to feed and pacify its homefront, ensuring better morale.
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Re: If the Cold War had turned 'Hot', would Russia or America have won?If it would have occured in the early days of the Cold War, before 1965, it would have been a easy victory for the US since their nukes outnumbered the USSR nukes several times. But if it would have occured later, I think neither would have won.
