by Chezek » Sat Jul 06, 2013 3:33 pm
by Urmanian » Sat Jul 06, 2013 3:36 pm
Urmanian wrote:Is your nation fully prepared for nuclear war?
We have just narrowly emerged from a Cold War complete with an insane arms race. We'd wager we are more prepared for a nuclear war than most countries out there.
Is it advanced enough to have developed counter-measure systems to stop ICBMs before they strike your soil?
We have the full spectrum of ABM countermeasures, including:
- Space-based defences: Our space military capability is very advanced, ahead of most comparatively-developed nations. Several dozen satellites from our satellite network are purposed for anti-ballistic missile work, bearing detection means and kinetic kill interceptors as well as other countermeasures; there is also a system of more advanced micro-satellites that consists of untold thousands of very small, intelligent orbiting satellites with kinetic warheads rather than large satellite battlestations. We are currently moving towards taking down more and more of older satellites and putting up more and more micro-satellites.
This is a very effective stage of ABM work but obviously you just can't put up enough satellites to meaningfully defend you from a saturation attack; thus they can reliably eliminate only the most limited strikes, all-out saturation attacks they can only massively cripple and then leave the rest to the other defence systems. We are also looking into using a smaller, more agile version of our pulse-drive space battleships for ballistic missile interception duties.- Air-based defences: While not a major part of our defence doctrine we still have some air-to-air missiles capable of taking down ballistic missiles and exoathmospheric hypersonic interceptor aircraft that can supplement the space defences in such a fashion.
- Naval-based defences: Predictably the largest part of our defence network; we have developed a wide range of specialized ABMs and SAMs capable of ballistic missile interception that can be launched from standard GPH Navy VLS, or extended-capacity VLS, as well as cutting-edge naval radars capable of ballistic missile tracking and advanced data sharing systems allowing the warships to communicate with space- and land-based detection assets. With many thousands of ships at sea, at any given point several thousand of arsenal ships, destroyers and cruisers are located in our sovereign waters on ABM duty, stocked each with dozens if not hundreds or thousands of ABMs, and many more can be loaded with ABMs if a threat of a nuclear war arises. While the navalized ABMs are probably not as capable as the larger land-based ones (though our more recent heavy exoathmospheric ABMs intended to launch from AA cruisers' 1x1m extended-capacity VLS are rather advanced), the sheer amount of firepower that the Navy can put up, dozens of thousands of ABMs no less, is enough to cripple or completely deter all but the most massed saturation attacks.
- Land-based defences: The last line of defence that is comprised by many bases scattered across the nation, operating powerful advanced radar suites and obscene quantities of heavy SAMs and interceptors. While lacking the sheer amounts of firepower that the Navy packs, they have some of the more advanced and heavier nuclear-tipped ABMs capable of taking out what is left after the Navy is done shooting.
If your countermeasures fail, how will you protect the government, the economy and the people from fire and radiation?
While it is impossible to defend everything, we have many precautions in place aimed mainly to secure the functioning of the GPH government and armed forces command, which will be evacuated post-haste to secure hardened command points from where it can continue executing administration and military management, and its strategic counterstrike capability, which will be mostly surviving anyways since about 1/2 of our nuclear arsenal is located on our immense fleet of SSBNs.
However the average civilians can still expect to be evacuated from the cities most likely to be affected via high-speed mass transit such as trains and aircraft, to secure bunkers, military compounds and other secure locations. Of course, your average Herdite, having born during a grueling Cold War and arms race, most likely has a CBRN-hardened bunker with enough supplies to hold out for an year in their basement anyways, so it is expected that a large chunk of the population will take good care of itself on its own. High population density means that the general population will suffer, but the vast Cold War civil defence network and the survivalist mindsets present in much of the populace are expected to mitigate the losses. Generally we expect to lose much less than a gigadeath from an all-out nuclear saturation attack.
After large pockets of survivors, the government and the military are secured and the counterattack is executed we will move on to recovering the most important assets, those being transportation and electronic communication lines, and clean-up of the fallout from the relatively surviving and viable to be repopulated areas of the nation important to the economy and other functions, from where all available resources will be rerouted towards ensuring the continuous survival and operation of the nation, or what is left of it.
If all else fails, how will you attempt to preserve life and persevere in the aftermath?
A large chunk of the population is expected to be able to hold out for basically years solely in bunkers, on military compounds and warships, and their amply survivalistic basements, while clean-up operations and other take place on the surface. It is expected that by the time when supplies run out amongst the survivors (though we'd most likely have small-scale manufacturing and hydroponic agriculture down there), major pockets of the nation will be viable for small-scale resettlement even after the most grievous nuclear bombardment.
And of course...
Retaliation: The Herd maintains an immense nuclear arsenal of hundreds of thousands of strategic warheads. Most of those are located on submarines and land-based Fractional Orbital Bombardment Systems (FOBS), what allows us to launch a strike at any point of the globe. Some thousands of warheads are also located on pulse-drive space battleships and have the same functionality. Once an incoming nuclear strike is detected and assessed the parliament votes in the retaliation (through instant distant-messaging devices and facilities), the Alpha (the Head of State) and the Minister of Defence initiate a launch from their nuclear suitcases or special command points if they have the time to be relocated there and finally the missiles are launched. Dozens, if not over a hundred, of thousands of strategic warheads are launched in a saturation strike against the offending country via FOBS and SLBMs and all life in it is extinguished. Except in the case where we decide on a limited retaliation, or if the place has a very comprehensive ABM network but even then we will make sure that the offenders' strategic strike and military capability in general is vaporized and their economy is grievously crippled without any chances of recovery.
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