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A 20MT weapon detonation could result in disabling the global electrical production and distribution system, as well as permanently disabling the electronics ne
by cocoablazing 9y ago
A 20MT weapon detonation could result in disabling the global electrical production and distribution system, as well as permanently disabling the electronics necessary to move food, water, and medical supplies.
Your thesis is that an instant global economic collapse, destruction of all advanced agricultural systems, transportation systems, waste management systems, water purification systems, etc. won't result in >= 20M deaths.
You really have no idea what the effects of a significant nuclear exchange would be.
- Amezarak 9y ago> A 20MT weapon detonation could result in disabling the global electrical production and distribution system, as well as permanently disabling the electronics necessary to move food, water, and medical supplies. The Tsar Bomba was a 50MT detonation and no such thing happened. There certainly are more electronics around today, but the EMP from a 20MT blasts, or even many 20MT blasts, would not be global, and even many electronics in range would be fine.