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Around 2,500 nuclear weapons have been detonated in tests[1] and we're still here. The two cities that have been nuked were rebuilt. An all-out nuclear exchang
by chroma 7y ago
Around 2,500 nuclear weapons have been detonated in tests[1] and we're still here. The two cities that have been nuked were rebuilt.
An all-out nuclear exchange would kill a lot of people and send humanity back to the early industrial or pre-industrial era, but it's not an extinction risk.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests
- ceejayoz 7y agoHumans have survived thousands of volcano eruptions, but I suspect we'd be in worse shape if thousands of volcanoes erupted all at once.
- titzer 7y ago> Around 2,500 nuclear weapons have been detonated in tests[1] The vast majority of those were underground, and they were not all at the same time.