How would the internet be affected by a nuclear attack?
I've been reading pic related, and its really good but also 40 years out of date, so it doesnt mention the internet at all.
Some example attacks:
Large Attack:
>2000 bombs aimed at 400 targets with a 20,000MT total yield
Small Attack:
>500 bombs aimed at 150 targets with a 1500MT total yield
I dunno what you expect
Servers would be destroyed disabling some websites and services but apart from that people would still be posting online about it
In the "large attack", the 53 largest metropolitan areas of the US would be levelled.
how would that affect internet infrastructure?
Nearly all us sites would be unavailable
The rest would be fine I guess unless the ocean cables cut off places
What is EMP for 1000?
Make a nuclear pumped laser and point it at every computer. Muahahaha!
>In the "large attack", the 53 largest metropolitan areas of the US would be levelled.
us sites would go down, but not even all of them. The fuck is your arguement? some retards wouldnt know to use a non google search engine but google has more than one server
>up to 70% of global internet trafficbgoes through northern virginia
>literally the most likely place to get fucked in a nuclear attack on the us
>internet somehow still being fine
The internet is so U.S. focused infastructure-wise that global thermonuclear war would basically end the internet.
Also civilization and shit because of nuclear winter, but that's a different problem.
If the porn is gone I'm gonna be mad.
That's why you make backups of shit you like.
I've been preparing way too much for the day internet goes down.
The fuck is in northern VA?
DC borders it
Yes but that doesn't explain why "70% of global traffic" would go through it
If they took out the underwater fibre lines everything would be fucked.
At best you'd only get coms within your own country, and even then the routing in most countries is fucked.
EG, in australia you might try to ping your neighbor, the packet will still go to the US. Same for contacting asia even though we have a dedicated asian link.
They could get it working, but it'd be an effort and wouldn't be quick. They'd need to rebuild every fucking routing table in the country.
>nuclear winter
>pointless greentext
>tfw no power and have to resort to actual women
>being so dumb you haven't stocked up on Playboys
But the major transoceanic telecom ports are still in the same physical location.
You can bet those routing stations would be on the short list
>Playboys
anyway i doubt what i have would suffice after a few days. only a few ero manga
Fucking mojave wasteland man.
there's no such thing as 'nuclear winter'
Man, those are some credible sources.
Just because the internet was based off research on how to create a network that could theoretically survive a nuclear war doesn't mean it actually would in practice.
All cloud hosting and websites that depend on cloud resources like captcha, CDNs or externally hosted javascripts would be dead, DNS might go down, BGP would go berserk, surviving international links would be overloaded to the point of uselessness.
And that's assuming the president doesn't step in and activate the "internet kill switch"
>Hording terabytes of JAVs and hentais but no electricity to play them.
Post apocalyptic Sup Forumsentoomen must envy the dead.
We would probably lose backbone infrastructure like DNS servers, tier 1 and 2 lines, exchange points between regional tier 1 lines and so on. We would probably not lose home lines or some exchange points serving suburban areas, but then they can't connect to the internet.
My ISP exchange point for their customers isn't too far from my house for instance and probably wouldn't die from a nuclear blast at my nearest city assuming no blackouts, but it couldn't connect to the tier 1 and 2 backbones.