World War III will not be the end of the world, don't get too excited!
The nuclear explosion is gradual: at the center of the explosion, within a two-kilometer radius, everything disappears and turns to gas; from there up to five kilometers, everything burns and the explosion destroys buildings due to the blast effect; from there up to ten kilometers, deaths are due to collapsing weak buildings and heat burns; and after that, up to 40 kilometers, radiation. What happens is islands of destruction with billions of survivors without electricity, water, or hospitals; at least a third of the people in the city centers survive.
There are about 60 million North Americans living on farms in the East, and in Europe, Switzerland is well protected by mountains and tunnels; in China, at least 500 million survive easily in the countryside and on farms; in India, more than half live in the countryside, that's 700 million.
Since the US has 950 bases scattered around the world, these bases are small, with fewer than 30 aircraft easily destroyed with a single attack. They lack strong defenses because they are small bases. The bases on US territory are gigantic; the two naval bases in Norfolk and California are the largest in the world, but the rest are too spread out, dependent on satellites to be commanded from afar, not from the US or Brussels. They are NATO allies who speak 50 different languages and more than 200 dialects among the military – a complete mess.
When the war starts, they can't waste bombs on Africa or Latin America because the Russians' targets are the missile-launching military bases first, then the major cities, so no bombs will fall on Brazil or Africa.
The US possesses 11,000 aircraft, no hypersonic missiles, airplanes, helicopters, transport aircraft, aerial tankers, 70 submarines, 320 escort destroyers each with 115 air-to-air interceptor missiles, underwater SLBMs that launch approximately 300 missiles with 10 nuclear bombs each, 11 aircraft carriers with a total of 700 aircraft (450 attack and 200 defense), 50 helicopters, and radar observation and patrol aircraft, plus 40,000 warheads in 4,000 land-based ballistic missiles.
The Russians have 6,500 ballistic missiles, each carrying 10 nuclear bombs; they possess nuclear-powered drones with 100 megatons of nuclear warheads, called Poseidon Status 5; they have nuclear-powered drones capable of flying for a year without landing (Buerevestnik); they possess hypersonic weapons that fly at 24,000 km per hour (Khinzal, Avangard, Yaris, Sarmat, Iskander, Orestnik); 4,500 aircraft; 24,000 tanks; 60 nuclear submarines, including 40 ballistic missile launchers with over 6,000 warheads; 240 destroyers; corvettes; nuclear supercruisers; and the "dead hand" system, which, even after all the generals are dead, uses a computerized AI system to continue the war by firing weapons hidden on the seabed and in train systems that conceal ballistic missiles.
Mainland China possesses 640 warships, the world's largest navy, three aircraft carriers, 600 nuclear missiles, a secret number of drones, 400 stealth fighters, a secret number of hypersonic missiles, electronics and hundreds of military satellites, an unknown number of armored vehicles and tanks, and the world's largest army.
This arsenal is entirely estimated as it forms part of each power's strategy.
It's not quite that expensive; it's just that fighter jets are very expensive. In World War II, England produced 45,000 fighter jets, the USA produced 120,000 aircraft, the USSR produced 99,000, Germany produced 140,000, V2 missiles about 5,000 of them, and V1 flying bombs. The most expensive aircraft was the US B-29, costing $13 million each. Today, the F-15 Eagle fighter jet costs $200 million. Even the USA can't produce more than that; they produce 60 F-35 Lightnings per year in the USA.
Today's wars are poorer: in the invasion of Okinawa alone, the USA sent 1,100 ships; in the Atlantic, they lost more than 700 ships torpedoed by the Germans, who had more than 400 submarines; the USA built 110 aircraft carriers in World War II.
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