I don’t think anyone ever thought human extinction would happen from a nuclear war. But what will likely happen is a societal collapse. Governments just canno

I don’t think anyone ever thought human extinction would happen from a nuclear war. But what will likely happen is a societal collapse. Governments just cannot handle the scale of a thermonuclear detonation on multiple population centers. The people in the epicenter of the detonation will be vaporized, God bless their souls, since they are the lucky ones. But the people on the fringe of the detonation will suffer from radioactive fallout, and will eventually succumb to diseases and leukemia. And with MIRV ICBMs, a single missile can easily target multiple distant locations, population centers, and food production centers, to ensure that the enemy is thoroughly eliminated with extreme prejudice. Thus, the society and country, as you know it, will crumble apart.