>So in the event of MAD, just instantly vaporize your own population to spare them a few months of clinging to life with radiation sickness, starvation, canniba

>So in the event of MAD, just instantly vaporize your own population to spare them a few months of clinging to life with radiation sickness, starvation, cannibalism, and the lawless raping and murdering of the earth's final warlords. Life tends to not want to die. And somehow they seem to survive enormous catastrophes against all odds. The dinosaur killing asteroid was ~100 million times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba. Yet we're here. The bigger threat is from the firestorms that throw so much soot into the atmosphere that it's ruined for our kind of life. But that probably still wouldn't get rid of life on Earth.