What would happen if WW3 broke out?

Jimmy Garlic

Russia and China against the Mish mash that is NATO. What would happen?.

xsiborg

the irish government would send out one iodine tablet per household again, or they'd start giving out cheese, and thats only after they decide which when they'd get back from their summer break! :rolleyes:

JONJO THE MISER

some nerd from tallaght would hack em or so im led to believe.

Pdfile

id be running like a mexican over the boarder with my porn collection.

OPENROAD

xsiborg wrote: »

the irish government would send out one iodine tablet per household again, or they'd start giving out cheese, and thats only after they decide which when they'd get back from their summer break! :rolleyes:

What type of cheese?

JONJO THE MISER

OPENROAD wrote: »

What type of cheese?

Galtee?

OPENROAD

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Galtee?

ah feck it

xsiborg

OPENROAD wrote: »

What type of cheese?

ironically enough:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01411/bishop_1411526c.jpg

dont open that cheese wrapper, it's a can of worms in disguise!

TerryTibbs!

There would be guns and stuff I guess

Icarus152

I have no idea what weapons WW3 will be fought with but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones

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Albert Einstein.

marty1985

We would all update our facebooks with a special WW3 status to stop the war, and that would be the end of that. No fuss.

Mr. Rager

I don't know... but it would definitely make the next call of duty game AWESOME :pac:

Mr.Crinklewood

Sky News would have no adverts.

galwayrush

A wild guess here, people would die..
We'd be ok here, because we would declare neutrality, and everybody knows, radiation fallout obeys such declarations.

Dravokivich

WW3 movies would be set in the past.

Biggins

What would happen?

The people in the west of Ireland might be the last alive occupants of this island we live upon.
If England was to get whacked and not us directly, we would be effected without a doubt, indirectly.

Dyr

Icarus152 wrote: »

I have no idea what weapons WW3 will be fought with but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones

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Albert Einstein.

That's good cos our defence forces upgraded to sticks and stones there last summer

Joey the lips

The imf would lower out interest rate.

Biggins

Joey the lips wrote: »

The imf would lower out interest rate.

Yea, to rubble level.

fakearms123

We'd all become mutuated and buff from the radiation, pulsating muscles wrapped in bullet belts and cargo shorts, lots and lots of cargo shorts

Xios

There won't be a world war 3, it'll be fought using proxy nations, like afghanistan or south korea, or loas.

JohnMarston

Time to stock up on bottle caps....:cool:

cruiser178

Biggins wrote: »

What would happen?

The people in the west of Ireland might be the last alive occupants of this island we live upon.
If England was to get whacked and not us directly, we would be effected without a doubt, indirectly.

What biggins said most likely,jesus biggins it must be a terrible burden to always be right

Biggins

cruiser178 wrote: »

What biggins said most likely, jesus biggins it must be a terrible burden to always be right

:pac:

Tell that to me wife!

BBDBB

Id cancel the papers

WindSock

I'd gather as many sticks and stones as I could to ensure a victory in WW4.

gigino

Biggins wrote: »

What would happen?

we have relied on the yanks and British for our defence and deterrent, the same as in ww2 and the cold war etc. Why pay for your own umbrella when you can shelter under another ?

Sprouts

We could meet any would be attackers in the arrivals area of our new terminal and bribe them with cheese to leave us alone. Either that or just turn off the lights and pretend theres no one in, it worked last time it all kicked off

Laika1986

The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots

johngalway

Biggins wrote: »

What would happen?

The people in the west of Ireland might be the last alive occupants of this island we live upon.
If England was to get whacked and not us directly, we would be effected without a doubt, indirectly.

Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny little problem with your theory on us peaceable folk in the West called....

Shannon airport.

In an all out war it'd get nuked for sure, just to deny it to whatever enemy.

Mint Sauce

It would be over very very quickly.

Nuclear weaopns and power stations dont mix well.

Duggy747

In the age of celebrity reality cooking gardening on ice in the jungle all our future wars will be decided by the public by voting in what platoons and regiments they'd like to keep in the war.

Cowell will make more money and 1 soldier will be left at the end with an entertainment contract hosting late night gambling shows on ITV.

Biggins

johngalway wrote: »

Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny little problem with your theory on us peaceable folk in the West called....
Shannon airport.
In an all out war it'd get nuked for sure, just to deny it to whatever enemy.

Your right about it as a possible target but with a nuke, I'd not be too sure.
Given Shannon Airports actual size, a simple MOAB bomb would probably do the job.
They prob (and hopefully) save the nukes for elsewhere.

Doom

Who cares but, I'll become MadMax and kick some ass....can't Wait

Biggins

Doom wrote: »

Who cares...

I do! :mad:

I'm still waiting for "Rocky 15" comes out.
I especially want to see the bit where he drags himself out of his wheelchair and into the ring, to hit his opponent with his urine bag!

I don't want some ruddy nuke spoiling my chances of seeing that film classic!

--Kaiser--

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Russia and China against the Mish mash that is NATO. What would happen?.

The fact that all these countries are well stocked with nuclear armaments mean that such a war is highly unlikely. Mutually assured destruction has been preventing the outbreak of WW3 for a good few decades now

ejmaztec

Doom wrote: »

Who cares but, I'll become MadMax and kick some ass....can't Wait

An anti-semitic wife-beating drunk?:eek:

ArtyM

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Russia and China against the Mish mash that is NATO. What would happen?.

Jaysus there'd be war.

JohnMarston

Doom wrote: »

Who cares but, I'll become MadMax and kick some ass....can't Wait

Can I be your sidekick?

Mint Sauce

Biggins wrote: »

I do! :mad:

I'm still waiting for "Rocky 15" comes out.
I especially want to see the bit where he drags himself out of his wheelchair and into the ring, to hit his opponent with his urine bag!

I don't want some ruddy nuke spoiling my chances of seeing that film classic!

He might decide to base it in a post Apocalyptic Era, do it as tie in with Aliens and Preditor, fought amoungt the rubble of Maddison Square Gardens.

ejmaztec

irish-stew wrote: »

He might decide to base it in a post Apocalyptic Era, do it as tie in with Aliens and Preditor, fought amoungt the rubble of Maddison Square Gardens.

Rocky will probably win on account of his having four fists and powers of telepathy after getting a direct hit from a depleted uranium shell.

JohnMarston

ejmaztec wrote: »

Rocky will probably win on account of his having four fists and powers of telepathy after getting a direct hit from a depleted uranium shell.

Well all it would do is even the odds. After all, he's probably gonna be fighting Goro by Rocky 15

Dr Kildare

this would happen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT96sgTwmvo

Poccington

We'd finally pay the price for being ridiculously cheap on Defence and always parking ourselves firmly on the fence by claiming to be "neutral".

mattjack

invasion began yesterday in Cork Airport..

Icarus152

Laika1986 wrote: »

They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots.

Winner.

Mayo Exile

Biggins wrote: »

Your right about it as a possible target but with a nuke, I'd not be too sure.
Given Shannon Airports actual size, a simple MOAB bomb would probably do the job.
They prob (and hopefully) save the nukes for elsewhere.

I'd be more pessimistic. There'd be plenty of nukes to go around. Expect ground bursts on Dublin airport, Shannon, Cork, Knock etc to utterly destroy the runways to deny them to anybody. The resulting fallout would banjax the country. Irish government bonds would be radioactive as well as at rubble level.

johngalway

Biggins wrote: »

Your right about it as a possible target but with a nuke, I'd not be too sure.
Given Shannon Airports actual size, a simple MOAB bomb would probably do the job.
They prob (and hopefully) save the nukes for elsewhere.

I doubt it. See there are plenty of 360 machines, dozers, and tarmac operations around. Even a large bomb causing significant damage to the runway would only deny use of the airport for a time. Rebuilding a runway in a glow in the dark environment presents a whole different and less easily overcome set of circumstances. And as one poster already said, there are no shortage of nukes.

Mike 1972

Was the 1990/91 Gulf war (often erroneously called the "first" gulf war) not World War 3 given that the allied side consisted of 30+ Countries ?

this would make the ongoing Afghanistan war World war 4

Re: Nuking airports in neutral(ish) countries would there be much point given that aircraft carriers and long straight stretches of motorway would still be available to the few military aircraft which had survived the nuking of airfields in NATO countries ?

Even a large bomb causing significant damage to the runway would only deny use of the airport for a time.

Once the initial salvo had hit surely the reconstruction of airports would be pretty low down the priority list ?

Biggins

johngalway wrote: »

...as one poster already said, there are no shortage of nukes.

Sadly, too true.

ReacherCreature

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Was the 1990/91 Gulf war (often erroneously called the "first" gulf war) not World War 3 given that the allied side consisted of 30+ Countries ?

this would make the ongoing Afghanistan war World war 4

A world war must constitute a war of global settings, i.e on different continents. If by your definition, Kosovo in 1999, was a world war too.