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In the event of a massive nuclear conflict, the destruction of civilization is a given. The survival of humanity is far less so, but it's certainly possible.
by excalibur 9y ago
In the event of a massive nuclear conflict, the destruction of civilization is a given. The survival of humanity is far less so, but it's certainly possible.
- jacquesm 9y agoOne of the things that my travels have shown me is that there are people everywhere. To eradicate humanity completely is an exceedingly hard task. Maybe a massive nuclear conflict would destroy civilization and our knowledge to the point that the last ones alive would simply give up, but we're an incredibly hardy and adaptive species. See: Greenland, the Andes, Nepal, Siberia, Nunavut (36000 people on 2 million square kilometers, you'd have to roughly assign one bomb per person to ensure you got everybody) and so on. Some of those places are likely to be on somebodies annihilation short list, but all of them would require a degree of carpet bombing with nukes that I highly doubt it will happen. Though Washington DC, and just about every other major capital would very likely be a smoking crater.
- icc97 9y agoIt depends on the length and area of the nuclear winter, not on bombing each individual. There would be the added genetic destruction through radiation, so it's not just like surviving Siberia. Also the humans that survived through Greenland had prepared for generations to live in hardship. Those left after any nuclear war certainly won't have been living their lives in nuclear winter world, no matter how good the doomsday peppers think they are.