Originally posted by peanutgallery83
I've actually had that happen. 5 civs left on a 'huge' map (out of 10 that started). I declare war on 1 of my enemies, and sign MPP's with 2 other civs, and it ends up being 3 vs 2. Anyways, I ended up nuking the Germans, who tried to nuke me back (thank you SDI), and it turned into an all out nuke war with 4 of the 5 countried who had nukes available.
In the end, 3 of the civs were in ruins after OVER 500 nukes were dropped (counted each civs stock with the spy both before and after the war), and the Global Warming was changing between 95-115 squares per turn! After about 45 more turns, MOST of the world had been converted to desert, tundra, and grassland (in a few places), it was a mess. Every city was starving in every civ, and I think the largest city at that point had shrunk to about an 8 pop. The only places that were okay was on 5 little islands out in the middle of the ocean far from anyone else, that just happened to have enough resources to keep the 1-2 cites on them happy.
Nukes can be good...but use them with caution...and all out nuke war brings nothing but a mess over the entire world...even if you yourself doesn't get directly hit.